No matter what, you won't trust them again. This means that the cheater isn’t sorry for failing to stay faithful, or at least not sorry enough to fess up.Įxample: "I was going to tell you, but I didn't want to hurt you." Right. This is especially true if the cheater isn't the one to break the news of cheating to the cheated. Cheaters who apologize profusely and give all sorts of excuses for their behaviors may very well feel remorse, but something still overpowers that feeling long enough for them to cheat. They're always sorry, but not sorry enough. Here are seven reasons not to go back to dating cheaters: 1. People who forgive cheaters and stay together know how disastrous it can become. However, this scenario is definitely the exception to the rule, despite it being what you tend to hope for when you’re the one who’s been betrayed.
Sometimes, this works out and the two live happily ever after because the cheater saw the error in his or her ways and never strayed again. At the very least, we all know somebody who's been cheated on and probably, someone who's cheated.īecoming more and more common, though, are the people who have forgiven a cheating boyfriend or girlfriend and tried to carry on with the relationship.
Explorations of class structure and bored teenage anomie are attempted in Never Back Down, but who wants their social critique served with a garnish of male anguish? You do? Okay, well you’ll like the film then.These days, it seems like every person has fallen victim to an unfaithful significant other. There’s really a lot of muddled commentary to be found here. And inner turmoil! Don’t forget that particularly cherished hallmark of the dick flick. Its ultimate message is terminally mixed: Violence is bad except when you just have to teach the antagonist a lesson and the point must be driven home by a humiliating beat down captured for posterity on a thousand iPhones. In spite of its declarative title, Never Back Down doesn’t come down on either side of the violence dilemma. The violence is lovingly rendered here, with ribbons of spit and blood flying out across the screen in slow-mo every time the hero gets punched in the face. Even with this lack of clarity, Never Back Down does deliver on a promise of a lot of gory action. I wouldn’t have known this from merely watching the film. According to the press kit, MMA is a phenomenon that’s sweeping the country. The one element that could have set the film apart, the spotlight on the Mixed Martial Arts fighting style, gets an unexplained short shrift. After the comely Baja invites Jake to a party, he meets her erstwhile boyfriend, the cruel, bronzed Ryan (Cam Gigandet), de facto champion of the fighting scene.
Jake is sucked into this world by two cookie cutter characters: new friend Max Cooperman (Evan Peters), a Ron Weasley-goes-skating AV nerd with a modicum of coolness, and button nosed vanilla pop Baja Miller (Amber Heard). As it turns out, this Orlando high school has an uncanny preoccupation with unsanctioned brawling.įighting, specifically Mixed Martial Arts, is an underground phenomenon here and students gather regularly at parties to watch men, women, and, yes, ex-couples go at each other in a ring of onlookers. Matters aren’t helped when Jake discovers that everyone at his new high school knows of his swinging skills thanks to a video posted on the Internet. He’s just mad at the world, trying desperately to restrain his tendency towards aggression while everything around him is begging to be ripped apart. When he is taunted on the field about his alcoholic father, recently killed in a car accident, Jake lashes out violently. In the first 10 minutes Jake is established as walking cornhusk with a precarious emotional trigger.
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