But they aren't where the important things happen. The global operations of capital transpire in a virtual space, one that isn't visible to the eye. That's why most of the plot of New Rose Hotel takes place off camera. Events are only conveyed indirectly, via grainy video-surveillance footage, wireless phone calls, and messages left on a pager. New Rose Hotel is not an action picture.
Unseen actions alter the distribution of money and power, and resonate in memory and reflection.
The film ends with a 22-minute sequence in which nothing new happens. Fox is dead, and Sandii has disappeared, and X ponders all that he has lost. The sequence is filled with flashbacks from earlier in the film. Some shots are repeated exactly. Others are replaced by alternate takes.