Poly Movie Review - Rita, Sue, And Bob Too

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091859/ - IMDB
http://amzn.to/2wd5YWi - Amazon

I just watched the creepiest fucking movie ever.

Rita and Sue are teenagers about to graduate high school.  At least, I think.  It's a film from the UK and I have absolutely no clue how the educational system works there, but it's weeks away from the end of their mandatory schooling and when they can move out of their parents' homes.  Rita and Sue are babysitters for Bob and Michelle.  Again, I have no idea how that system works, but they are apparently both sitters.  When I used to babysit, if the parents were going to be out particularly late, I was sometimes allowed to invite a female friend over to keep me company, but I was the only paid sitter.  It was never explained how it works for Rita and Sue, I imagine because everyone in the UK already knows how it works.  But they both sit regularly.

So anyway, Rita and Sue babysit one night and Bob drives them home.  Only he doesn't go home.  He starts asking them creepy questions like if they're virgins and if they know how to put on a condom.  The girls act insulted and antagonistic, but given how they behave throughout the rest of the movie, apparently antagonism is foreplay.  So Bob takes them to some desolate cliff overlooking their town and fucks them both.

This is the third scene in the movie, and it only gets ickier from there.

( There is absolutely no way to explain the poly part of this movie without giving away the ending. Sorry. )

So, there's nothing poly about this movie until *maybe* the final 3 seconds of the film.  The first part isn't poly because it's a married man cheating on his wife with two fucking teenagers.  The middle part isn't poly because he chooses only one of the teens and the other gets into an abusive relationship.  But since it could be argued that the very very end of the movie involves three people in a live-in, consensual relationship, that makes this a poly movie.

But I disliked this movie more than I disliked Cafe au Lait.  At least in Cafe au Lait, the three characters all live together for about half the film, even though they disliked each other.  In this one, the three title characters don't dislike each other, exactly, but they don't seem to really like each other either.  But, to be fair, they don't seem to like anybody, or anything.  Everyone in the movie fights with everyone else.  Apparently, that's just what life is like Yorkshire.  The reviews keep calling it "realistic".  That's a terrifying thought.  The movie also got rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, and Sundance.

I can't understand why everyone loved this movie.  Just showing people argue with each other and daring to set a film in a slum doesn't make for a "gritty film", in my opinion.  So the girls are poor, and there's a lot of cussing and fucking.  Big deal.  The characters were unlikeable and their motivations were random and unpredictable.  But I guess if you live in an area where nobody likes anyone, you don't expect the characters to like each other.  They just have to agree to stay together.  Although I'm not sure why anyone *does* stay together if you don't like each other and there's no financial incentive.  I guess it's just something you do.

I've already established that it's still a poly film if the movie ends with a breakup, as long as the *reason* is not that polyamory itself destroyed the relationship.  If a movie shows functional polyamory that's destroyed by outside pressures, or even by personality conflicts but not because there are multiple people, then even if the relationship ends, it's a poly movie.  So is it a poly film if the opposite happens?  Does it count as poly if there is no poly in the movie anywhere but it has a "happy" poly ending?  I guess so.

I'm grudgingly keeping this movie on the list because of the ending.  But I hated it.

~Reviews by Joreth - I watch the crap so you don't have to.