Spoiler Alert – This post will talk about Roofman and it WILL contain spoilers. If you haven’t yet watched this based-on-real-life movie, you might wish to skip this post.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I recently watched Roofman, a movie based on a real-life thief and…it was okay. I wouldn’t watch it again.
It has a romance storyline but this movie does NOT have a romantic happy ever after or happy for now ending.
Because the hero is a liar.
He isn’t an inadvertent liar or a forced-to-tell-a-lie-and-has-a-great-reason-for-doing-so truth bender. We often forgive those type of lying heroes in romance novels, especially if they are shown to be honest and trustworthy in all other situations and, they are truthful, in the future, with their love interest.
Writers have to work hard to redeem lying heroes.
The hero of Roofman isn’t working hard at anything. He definitely isn’t trying to be redeemed. I suspect he doesn’t even believe lying is wrong.
He lies about almost everything, has a history of lying and shows no willingness to tell the truth in the future. He also walks away from his wife and kids, steals…constantly, and deceives everyone around him.
So no, he doesn’t deserve a happy ending and he doesn’t get one.
Ensure your lying romance hero or heroine deserves their romantic happy ending.
