While in line for the movies they play this stupid game of one guessing who in the area the other would want to trade places with. The movie proper starts, and we meet the main character Jamie “Jay” and her boyfriend (I think) Hugh, on a date. The tension was revved up from the beginning, and gave the hope that it would last for the entire movie… it did not. I really wish, I had gone into this not knowing what it was about, but that knowledge doesn’t take away from the opening. She drives off into the night and we later see her sitting on a beach, talking to her dad on the phone, apologizing for being such a bitch. The girl runs back into her house, apparently has time to grab car keys but not any other clothing. The movie opens with a girl in a nightgown and high heels running out of her house, and she runs in an awkward circle telling anyone who asks, including her father that she’s ok: she’s not. I really want to give this movie points for originality, but it is so clearly, too obviously, an allegory for safe sex, it just hurts the overall feeling of the movie.
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