Time & Perspective Quote by Taylor Dane

Calling the men "scumbags" isn’t moral grandstanding; it’s a framing device that frees Taylor Dane to talk about something uglier than individual bad behavior: the way a certain kind of masculinity is built to rot on contact with permission. The line sets up a bait-and-switch. We expect monsters, but we get "career men, family men" on a leisure mission, the kind of respectable identities that usually function as alibis. Dane’s point is that the film’s engine isn’t revelation (they were secretly terrible all along) but corrosion (watch how quickly decency becomes negotiable when the setting rewards impulse and anonymity).

The key phrase is "going in there to have a good time". It’s euphemism as indictment. "Good time" signals a culturally sanctioned escape hatch: boys’ trip logic, the fantasy of consequence-free indulgence, the idea that responsibility can be paused like a subscription. Dane reads the film as a slow-motion exposure of that myth. The men arrive with self-stories intact, then the environment - booze, peer dynamics, transactional sex, whatever the film’s specific temptations are - tests how thin those stories really are. Deterioration suggests a process, not a twist: small compromises, escalating rationalizations, group reinforcement, the slippery comfort of "everyone’s doing it."

There’s also a sharp critique of audience complicity. By emphasizing development, Dane implies the film wants us to recognize types we’ve been trained to trust, maybe even like, then sit with the discomfort of watching respectability fail in public. The horror isn’t that scumbags exist; it’s how ordinary it is to become one.