Trust

9/3/2022

Trust is the stuff that bad rom-coms are made of; why anyone though they could fashion a drama/thriller out of this material, I haven’t the foggiest. Brooke (Victoria Justice) hires Amy (Katherine McNamara), a "decoy" to test her husband Owen’s (Matthew Daddario) faithfulness — or, as Amy puts it, "dangle a chick in front of my husband to see if he'd fuck her" —, and then is all 'well I never!' when Owen does indeed fuck the chick that was dangled in front of him. Once again I’m reminded of George Carlin’s “people in Kilauea, Hawaii who build their houses right next to an active volcano and then wonder why they have lava in the living room.” I’m also reminded of The Departure, a nice little 2020 drama with a similar premise and a much more sensible handling of said premise. In that film