After the growing buzz around the Spanish YA Wattpad drama, Culpa Mía, Prime Video has come up with its British counterpart, My Fault: London. In this film, as with the original, we are pulled into a messy romantic affair between two teens, who are also step-siblings. The film’s growing popularity lies in the way it pushes the envelope around the thematic concerns of fantasies and desires in young adult audiences. As Nick and Noah come closer, they are also aware of their need to keep it all under wraps. Would they be able to hide what is going on for too long?
Spoilers Ahead
How does the story begin?
In My Fault: London, 18-year-old Noah is forced to move house after her mother’s marriage to one William Leister. At first, Noah is hesitant to move into the house of a complete stranger. Upon meeting William’s son, Noah finds him to be an arrogant brat but also cannot deny the strange attraction between them. After a series of awkward but visibly charged encounters, Noah and Nick finally come together at the success party of the Leister family business. After the party, Nick, on his father’s insistence, tries to drive Noah back home.
Inside the car, tension engulfs Nick and Noah as the latter makes a comment about Nick’s mother. This does not go down well with Nick, and he shows her the door. Left alone in the middle of the road, Noah feels insulted. However, Zach, the valet, pulls up right at the spot and tells her that Nick has sent him. Zach drives her to the party where Nick currently is. A guy called Tom tries to get unnecessarily friendly with Noah. In a room, Noah spots Nick strip-dancing with multiple women and splashes her drink on him. Later, Noah flakes out as the drink she consumed was spiked by Tom with drugs. Nick punches Tom and leaves with Noah. The next morning, Noah confronts Nick about his questionable friends and choices.
The hostility that has been fostering for too long with the couple dispels slowly as Noah starts accompanying Nick to his secret drag racing arena and proves herself to be a skilled motorist. The sexual tension between the two saturates the atmosphere, the most prominent instance of which shows up when Nick helps Noah make her ex-boyfriend jealous with a kiss. As the relationship develops gradually, Nick takes Noah to pay a visit to his mother and his little sister, Maddie. Nick’s wayward life and his close dealings with drugs and violence are alarming to his mother. She does not permit him to get closer to Maddie on account of his inability to remove himself from this world. Nick’s mother knows that his fascination with violence stems from the childhood wound caused by an absent mother figure.
Is Ronnie behind Noah’s abduction?
At the drag race, as Ronnie, under a false impression, gets beaten by Noah, he accuses Nick of cheating. As he proceeds to threaten Nick for breaking Tom’s nose, Noah intervenes and says that he deserved the punch. Unable to hold back his anger, Ronnie tries to find a way to hurt Noah. However, he gets beaten by Nick instead. As a fight breaks out in the subway, Nick is forced to flee with Noah and his friends. Before leaving, Ronnie challenges him to a fight. Later, we see Nick accept the challenge.
On the day of the fight, he seems to have the upper hand against Ronnie. However, when Nick notices Noah leave, he gets distracted. He hears some ambiguous words regarding Maggie and leaves the fight midway. Lion, his friend, had money on winning the fight. Quite obviously, he gets upset over this forfeit. Ronnie, however, is planning on usurping more than what he was about to achieve through the fight, so he hijacks Nick’s car and threatens to finish off his friends. Lion is later found roughed up, and Nick suspects Ronnie as the main culprit. However, the police have a new detail and a new name to share. He learns that it is Travis, Noah’s abusive father, who is behind the attack on Lion’s father. He reappears just when Noah’s mother attempts to start her life afresh. Noah gets abducted by Ronnie Burns. Ronnie, in fact, is just a pawn set up by Travis. In the end, in a bloody showdown, Travis is shot dead. In the scene, one hears the sound of a handgun which suggests that it is Travis who has shot himself, though it can also be possible that he may have pointed his gun towards Noah, when the cops standing nearby pulled the trigger and shot him dead before he could do any further damage to the young kids.
Will Noah Continue Her Relationship With Nick?
My Fault: London ends with the confusion of William and Ella regarding the nature of Nick and Noah’s relationship. Following the broaching of the topic, Ella seems to grow a little apprehensive, but that apprehension is quickly repressed. As an audience, we know that Ella’s instincts are right. So, when the parents learn of the actuality of the intensity of the romance, they will do everything in their power to break it off. Even if, in the wildest of possibilities, they are allowed to continue with their romance, the romance shows enough signs of a possible withering. In all probability, it would not be able to withstand the tumultuous ups and downs of such intensity. We are witness to at least two occasions when Noah was subjected to infuriating humiliation by Nick. Nick’s anger unleashes a side of him that is dangerous for a healthy romance, precisely what his mother points out as a reason to keep him away from his daughter. Therefore, unless Nick seeks help, a possible union is a myth. In the future installments, if there are any, one might expect the romance to be fraught with even greater blow-ups. Nick is young and has years before him, but without self-reflection he would become the exact monster Noah has tried to escape her entire life. Nick’s violent tendencies are already alarming to Noah. Nick’s wild parties, secret fight club, and questionable friends have all previously made Noah uncomfortable.
