BAD MATCH

US, 2017, 90 minutes, Colour.
Lila Simmons, Brendan Scott, Jack Cudmore- Scott, Chase Williamson.
Directed by David Chirchirillo.


This is a psychological thriller focusing on a successful businessman who is a womaniser, using dating sites, meeting women, sharing a meal, a night of sex and then abandoning them.

However, one of the women he dates his or clinging type whom he wants to get rid of. She is rather melodramatic in her response. He becomes the victim of her faking a suicide attempt, then being arrested by the police for having child porn on his computer. He blames the woman, confronts her – and, the ending is quite downbeat. (It is someone else, a young rival competing with him in online computer games getting some vengeance.)

1. Television drama, thriller?

2. The moral of the story? The twist at the end with the deaths?

3. The focus on Harris, match our attitudes, womaniser, online dating, sexual encounters, charm, leaving? His reputation?

4. At work, prestige, later is job, the threat of being fired? Consequences?

5. Playing computer games, defiant, his anonymous opponent, the irony of the ending and the response to Harris and his winning and attitudes?

6. Riley, the date, clingy? Staying, preparing the meals, the pressure on Harris? His reactions? His being late for work? Riley being a threat? His avoiding her, going out, the lies to his friend, her overhearing? The continued pressure, her harassment?

7. Harris and his computer, the report of pornography, the police, the interrogations, the advice of his lawyer?

8. Suspicions of Riley, the pornography on the computer, his response to her message, the suicide stunt?

9. Harris and his serious attitude towards Riley, tying her up, pressurising a confession, setting her free, her attack on him, his killing her?

10. The irony that the person responsible pornography was the computer games rival?