Which character do you think treated May the worst? And why?
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Adam definitely. It's horrible, because as a viewer you start to really love him and then he turns into a total a-hole. Thppp!
sharemost definitely Adam. Polly was actually really nice to her. Adam was just...dick.
shareC'mon guys, i don't think Adam was that bad. I know if I was Adam i wouldn't have been that nice to her. I would have avoided her like the plague. The difference between Polly and Adam is that Adam realized May was disturbed and Polly didn't seem to have a clue.
I don't think either was that awful. Both characters kindly reached out to her. She was just nuts!
I don't think Adam treated her badly at all. What did he do that was so wrong or bad? Other than just avoid her after all was said and done, which I am sorry but most people would have been much more harsh than he was (with more than good reason).
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I think Adam was a great guy. He knew May was very strange indeed (he knew she put her face in his hand when he was asleep in the coffee shop) but he gave her a chance anyway. He showed her kindness, and seemed genuinely interested in her. She kept giving him reasons to leave her (the dog story was disturbing, the retractable knife was also quite strange, her reaction to his film was even worse) but he gave her chance after chance, until he physically got hurt by her. I doubt any sane person would like to talk to somebody so deranged as to physically injure them and rub the blood over themselves as if they are turned on by it. Isn't that just slightly disturbing? And if she can do this so soon into a relationship, think how far it could have progressed. It could have got MUCH worse. And yes, he talked about her to her friends, but most people would. And even though he let his thoughts about her be known to his friends, he still made an effort to try to be kind to her in the park. I think he was genuinely a nice person, but somebody like May can push anyone to that limit. I think most people here would be lying if they said they would have reacted better than Adam.
However, May NEVER let Polly see the extent of her weirdness. Granted, she saw SOME weirdness (the scalpel in the finger) but she never saw HALF of what Adam saw. She used May. She tried to seduce her (in the dancing scene) so she would look after the cat. Later, she LIES to May by saying she is "dead" serious, when she obviously is not. If she were, she would have only been with May from then on. Whenever I have been serious about anyone, I have saved myself for only them. I don't know about anyone else, but I thought this was the norm. As some people are saying, she offers to kick the other girl out, but I refuse to believe she wouldn't have asked her back later. She even asked May to join them. I wouldn't call this sensitive to her feelings.
Polly is insensitive and unkind to May. Adam was simply pushed to his limits, and I think anybody would be in his situation. Polly had no reason to be insensitive and unkind to May. She doesn't even know the extent of May's weirdness. Adam was genuinely kind to her when he had nothing to gain, Polly only ever spoke to her when she wanted something. Sorry, but I think Adam was a nice guy and Polly was a user. I think anyone who doesn't see this should watch the film again closely. I think they'll probably see my point of view then, even if they don't totally agree about the nice guy part.
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I agree with the above poster. Adam was not a horrible guy and was indeed very patient with her. Most guys would have treated her far worse considering how weird May was, they wouldn't have even got involved with her in the first place. Nobody treated May bad in this movie, not really considering the way she was acting. I mean come on, rubbing Adam's blood all over her? Psycho! Tell me no guy would get freaked by that! IMO he treated her far better than she deserved and was clearly only concerned for his own safety seeing as how he spotted her obvious mental issues early on.
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I think that it wouldn't have mattered who treated her worst (I don't think any of them treated her all that badly), she was just way too disturbed. The norm is... anyone with psychotic tendencies will snap and turn into a psycho sooner or later.
Polly was sweet to her, but Polly's idea of a relationship was kinda different from May's, and like most people, she figured that at the beginning it's ok to see other people until you name the relationship "exclusive", she was just too liberal, and apparently May wanted commitment to someone, anyone (apparently).
Adam was nice to her from the beginning, and even tried to look past her obvious personality issues, I guess he thought she was weird but didn't want to pay much attention to it, since he was into "weird" (and let's face it, when you meet a cute girl/guy you never think he/she's gonna turn out to be a psycho, despite their quirks), but he didn't know she was THAT disturbed. At first he thought she was just quirky, but after the lip-biting-smearing-blood-on-her-face thing... he realized she was just twisted. I don't blame him for avoiding her! I would've probably done the same thing!
May went psycho, sooner rather than later. It was to be expected. I guess Adam and Polly were just innocent bystanders (ok, maybe not that innocent). If it hadn't been them, it would've been someone else.
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Polly, overall - it seemed to me like she saw May as a challenge because she'd never had any sort of relationship, so she would have been more of a conquest for Polly rather than "just a piece of ass". She could see that May wasn't interested but she kept on flattering her and taking advantage of her naivety.
I understand that Adam was worried by May's obsessive behaviour, but really, he treated her pretty badly at times when he could have shown her decency and politeness - the moment where he pretended the washing machine wasn't working in order to get away from her stands out quite starkly. She only asked him how he was, he didn't have to give her every intimate detail, he could have just made something up or even just said that he was "fine, thanks."
He said his heart had lost its tempo and rendered him a no-show in love and related things.
Adam was worse by a country mile.
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The fact that people think Adam was a bad guy really says something about how skewed you're movie watching perspective is.
The girl bit his lip (rather hard) and then proceeded to RUB the BLOOD all over her self. Uh, ya thats just cause to freak out and not see her again. God forbid someone gets freaked out by a girl who plays with your blood and yells at invisible people! What a jerk! Give me a break, you people are seriously missing the point. What should Adam have done? He was freaked out. Should he have sat her down and told her she was unstable? What the f-ck good would that of done? I'm sure all you saints would have calmly talked to her after she drew blood from your lip and rubbed it all over herself. I bet your first thought wouldn't be "I gotta get out of here." It would be: "Hmm, she needs a bit of a talking to about her mental state. Come May, lets have a chat."
He handled it much better then most people would. He didn't yell at her, or curse at her. He freaked out, and told her he had to go.
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