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Miller's Girl, 2024

#miller's girl

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ok really interesting no one else who watched the movie seemed to think it was ambiguous whether the sex happened or was just her fantasy. which is so so interesting did i have an original thought. am i the only one who saw this movie the way i saw it. this is what film should be about

#she speaks #OK IM GOING TO BED SOON IM SORRY

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Miller's Girl (Jade Halley Bartlett, 2024).

#miller's girl #THIS is the spoken poetry typa dialogue i was talking about AND I LOVE IT

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yeah that just about sums it up

#why'd i write 1000 words about this movie i couldve just said this and been done with it!!! #i'm looking at only 5 star reviews to affirm my own thoughts. as god intended #after dark #IM GOING TO BED SOON

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NO ONE GETS THIS MOVIE LIKE I DO

cw: i'm talking about a movie w/ a student/teacher relationship

i feel like this lady with an extremely pretentious film, and i dont mean that in a bad way, had to find a way to sell this film for the mainstream when it was never supposed to be palatable to the mainstream. this was supposed to be a cult classic pretentious art film but it had the guy from sherlock and the girl from wednesday so it got all this mainstream attention from people who were never gonna get it!!!

first of all, the age gap. i REALLY thought, by the way ppl were moral hand wringing about this, that there was gonna be like, more substance to their relationship. martin freeman and jenna ortega are both incredible actors who worked incredibly together but even i, a fictional age gap liker, felt uncomfortable so idk why normal got fearing citizens are getting their panties in a twist abt romanticizing unhealthy/illegal power dynamics. the sex "scene" was INCREDIBLY TAME and barely even showed much. i can't believe ppl were writing think pieces abt the age gap when THAT WAS IT??????? WHAT????

OK WITH THAT OUT OF THE WAY

from very early on i was struck with the feeling of, this feels like a stage play. it doesn't feel like it's meant to be a movie, its got an extremely small cast, no one talks like a normal person, it's like they're all doing spoken poetry. the sets don't feel real, but purposefully so, like its a set on a stage. IT DOESNT FEEL REAL. but it feels that way on purpose. like it's a dramatic pretentious, poetic retelling of something real. and i think that is why it has so many reviews that it's bad but you dont get it its that way on PURPOSE. and i LOVED that aspect more than anything

there were also just some very very beautiful cinematic shots. i almost wanna make my own gifset even tho its been out for months and i have better things to do bc i feel like no one saw it like i did. they also did this thing where they'd go rly extreme with the focus. the entire background being gaussian blur around a character. 2 character sitting next to eachother swapping focus as the scene needed. it rly made it all feel small and contained.

MORE THAN ANYTHING. I LOVE MORAL AMBIGUITY.

i love it when movies dont tell you who's right. who you're supposed to feel bad for. all the characters (except winnie) kind of suck in one way or another and its up to the viewer to decide how to feel. both mr. miller and cairo feel like both victims and perpetrators at the same time and YOU have to decide who's side you're on!!!! at the end of the day, obviously, OBVIOUSLY, the adult, the teacher in this situation has a responsibility to not let any of this happen, its HIS fault, but i really love that they showed cairo as a person with agency in the situation she was in.

and, looping back to the sex scene, they make it entirely unclear whether anything actually happened between them, or if it was just a fantasy she had!!!! and i love that!!!! you as a watcher have to decide if you believe, her, the narrator!!!! did they kiss? did they have sex? or was it just a student teacher friendship that maybe blurred some lines but nothing physical happened? YOU HAVE TO DECIDE. THE MOVIE IS NOT GIVING YOU AN EASY ANSWER.

(while this is all subjective), from my perspective, the movie makes it clear that he wanted her, EVEN IF its unclear if anything happened. will you condemn him for wanting it. is that bad enough, even if he never acted on it. does he deserve what he's getting, even if he didn't do anything physical, even if he just wanted it?

and how much are you going to judge her??? for her part to play in it? she's 18, and he certainly has the power here, but that doesn't mean she can't be judged for her choices. are you judging her, for pursuing him, for wanting him? for kissing him first, for retaliating when he rejects her? she's not presented as a perfect victim, and she played an active role in what happened. if this was real life, would you defend her wholeheartedly? and once again, do you believe her as the narrator? did they really kiss in the rain outside her parent's mansion? did they have sex on her fancy bed? or was that just a fantasy she made up? THE STORY IS NOT TELLING YOU WHAT TO FEEL. YOU HAVE TO FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE TO THINK ABOUT IT.

at the end of the day, i dont know. and thats what so great i get to sit around and think about it. maybe watch it again, i still have to decide how much was real!!!!!!!!!! and thats wonderful!!!!!! and because it feels like a stage play and the dialogue feels like poetry and the shots feel so artsy its that much harder to decide what scenes were real and what, if any scenes were just a made up fantasy in the narrator's version of the story.

its meant to be ambiguous. its not meant to feel satisfying when he gets in trouble for it all. it's not trying to be a romanticized problematic age gap love story and its not trying to be a satisfying evil man gets what he deserves story. it's something entirely different. its a pretentious morally ambiguous weird uncomfortable art film. and i love it

love when i'm watching a flopped movie and i can just feel. oh i'm aboutt to defend this movie. i can feel it. in a hour and a half i'm gonna have a speech about how everyone else is wrong i can feel it in my bones

#cw grooming #it should go without saying that in real life i would always 100% believe the student in this scenario. just to be clear. #but i am defending this movie like hbomberguy defends pathologic. its a masterpiece TO ME #also jenna ortega and martin freeman are such good actors OH MY GOD they were insane for that #she speaks

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JENNA ORTEGA as Cairo Sweet in MILLER'S GIRL (2024) • Official Trailer

#jenna ortega #miller's girl

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i'm still writing my silly lil post btw. just wait

#i'm INSANE. OH MY GOD #she speaks

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JENNA ORTEGA as Cairo Sweet MILLER'S GIRL (2024)

#jenna ortega #miller's girl

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what movie r u wqtching to evoke several of your latest post i am intrigued

HI I JUST FINISHED WATCHING MILLER'S GIRL I AM WRITING A GIANT READMORE ABOUT WHY I LIKED IT SO MUCH SORRY FOR BEING VAGUE FOR NO REASON

#i dont even feel like. i should recommend it bc it feels so. idk if it'll resonate w/ other ppl like it did with me #and it IS uncomfortable. the ending feels very unfulfilling. its ~problematic~ #i also grew up rly immersed in shakespeare and theater and i think thats KEY to it resonating with me so well #ANYWAY i'll get back to my actual post abt it and you can read it when i post it if u care. #thank u for caring abt the dumb things i post abt ily #ask #flyingchameleon

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Miller's Girl (2024) dir. Jade Bartlett

#miller's girl #you get it!!!!! the cinnamontography of it all

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Miller's Girl (2024) dir. Jade Bartlett

#oh this scene was EVERYTHING #if anyone cares abt my opinions i AM currently writing paragraphs abt this movie dont you worry #miller's girl

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"do you want to be liked or do you want to be fucked?" WHAT A LINE

#i know i said i wasnt gonna say anything more im sorry #IM ENRAPTURED #she speaks

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at this point i feel like i should shut the fuck up and finish the movie before i speak more lmao

#she speaks #BUT I HAVE THINGS TO SAY BEST BELIEVE. IN 38 MINUTES

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i think half the problem is ppl dont like when movies make them uncomfortable. theyre supposed to!!!! i'm uncomfortable and i'm on the edge of my seat still!!!!

love when i'm watching a flopped movie and i can just feel. oh i'm aboutt to defend this movie. i can feel it. in a hour and a half i'm gonna have a speech about how everyone else is wrong i can feel it in my bones

#to clarify im not recommending anyone go watch this movie UNLESS it inherently seems compelling to u #but Oh My God am i compelled #she speaks

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i cant believe so many reviews said the leads didnt have chemistry just bc yall dont like age gaps doesnt mean the chemistry isnt PALPABLE im losing my mind watchign this

love when i'm watching a flopped movie and i can just feel. oh i'm aboutt to defend this movie. i can feel it. in a hour and a half i'm gonna have a speech about how everyone else is wrong i can feel it in my bones

#theyre both such phenomial actors the sets are insane the soundtrack is INSANE #she speaks #can yall guess the movie yet lol

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the lollipop vs cigarette imagery parallels AND a woman directed this????? the more i watch the better i feel abt this call

love when i'm watching a flopped movie and i can just feel. oh i'm aboutt to defend this movie. i can feel it. in a hour and a half i'm gonna have a speech about how everyone else is wrong i can feel it in my bones

#she speaks #i'm only 15 minutes in aldjfalskjfalksdjf

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love when i'm watching a flopped movie and i can just feel. oh i'm aboutt to defend this movie. i can feel it. in a hour and a half i'm gonna have a speech about how everyone else is wrong i can feel it in my bones

#she speaks #will not say what i'm watching until i prove myself right LMAO