By the end I felt they were really painting Keith as a sleeze--which having an affair on your wife with the babysitter while the kid is in the next room does make him a sleeze in my book--but the way I see it, the girls were every bit as sleezy as he was, so I felt a little uncomfortable with the film making him out to be this bad guy and not really acknowledging that these girls were just as bad if not worse.
Shiny...let's be bad guys.
Yeah, I agree - the girls were pretty sleezy too, none of the characters is exactly saintly!
I read an interview with the director, John Hazlett, in which he said he cast David Boreanaz because he wanted an actor who could make the audience like Keith despite the affairs-with-three-underage-babysitters stuff. I guess that suggests he wasn't particularly intending to portray Keith as the bad guy.
Nah he was alot worse. He was cheating on his wife and family. The girls were just messing around and they are not like real life, but Keith was like real life.
shareActually, the girls end up being a bit worse. They basically blackmail Keith into having sex with them, something that the movie even hints on being a Bad Thing. Even when the girls end up getting off light, Keith isn't quite shown as being the Big Bad Evil guy.
Though I'm pretty sure that if the genders were swapped and it were three dudes blackmailing a woman into having sex with them, it would not have been seen as comical as it is the way it played out here.
Though I'm pretty sure that if the genders were swapped and it were three dudes blackmailing a woman into having sex with them, it would not have been seen as comical as it is the way it played out here.
Yeah, but it was a realistic portrayel. The story was narrated by one of the girls. She's not going to see herself as the bad guy. And even admits that they were being selfish. So what's wrong with that?
shareI think, in real-life, everyone involved in this situation would probably be messed up for life, at least a little bit. Even Keith.
And, the fact that he was an older adult, means that he needs to be responsible and not mess with underage babysitters! What happened to adults being good examples to younger, immature minded teen-agers.
This sort of movie doesn't say much for where society is today, I guess.
Obviously, it is not something a married adult should do, but to be honest it would be pretty hard to resist three girl who looked like THIS. And once you've slept with one, there's no real reason not to go for the trifecta. Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on your point of view), this is very unlikely to happen to the average guy in real-life, but I wouldn't want to bet a lot of them would act any differently if it did.
"Let be be finale of seem/ The only emperor is the Emperor of Ice Cream"
The whole movie was sleazy! But Keith was the biggest sleaze of them all. He used the money his wife worked for to pay the babysitters to watch their child but then he had sex with them. This IS the worst movie EVER! I honestly don't know how anyone could find it amusing. I watched it for DB but wished I hadn't.
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