![]() ![]() When Diana snaps at a fellow teacher who interrupts a conversation between the two of them, Eric has the objectivity to see this is inappropriate, and might be dangerous for her. He's not in it for any kind of long haul, though he cares enough to never blow her cover, or put her job in jeopardy. At one point Diana suggests they take a time out, and he accepts this with ease. ![]() Still, he's no callow cad, he's merely self-possessed. Eric is a cool cat and Diana gets kittenish, even emotive around him. She definitely is no predator, despite the film's emotional set-up, but a woman in love-lust. It seems the director had to throw in something, anything, to explain Diana's reclusiveness. But despite a reference to their mom's Alzheimer's, the cinematic catch-all disease for family problems these days, no disrespect intended, that's all we get. A brief visit from her out-of-town brother reveals she's cut off from her family. She's sort of a loner, though with a roommate, the cheery Sophia ( Jennifer Prediger) in whom she never confides. Scenes of an unhappy-looking Diana as a compulsive runner dot the film, and some ominous music sets the tone. As a character observes later in the movie: "She's the teacher in high school the dudes wanted to bang but didn't." ![]() But Diana is definitely upgraded in the looks department. Even the instructor lunchroom hasn't changed. It's so familiar, you can practically smell the chalk, want to start throwing erasers. The setting is a suburb of Austin Texas, but the classroom, and the school, could be anywhere. ![]()
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