Yesterday I finally watched the movie, Miller's Girl. I heard about the movie a few months ago, saw people leaving reviews on Youtube, basically saying how bad the movie was, I figured, "ok it can't be that bad." Oh boy was I wrong, it was MUCH worse than I anticipated.
To start off, the monologues, jesus christ, it literally felt like they just had the monologues where just there to fill up empty space, and it didn't feel like a teen girl talking at all, it felt like someone that would have been in college taking complex literacy classes, not some girl that's just about to graduate high school. So the fact that the monologues and how she spoke in general didn't fit her age, threw me off right away.
The premise starts off with the main character Cario Sweet meeting her literary teacher Janathan Miller, basically showing right away her infatuation for him, telling him that she's read all his books. It shows within the first ten minutes that Janathan Miller used to be an author, or a failed author, with no novels of his picking up at all, so the fact that Cario Sweet read all his work, and already shows admiration for him, obviously rubs his ego.
Things basically quickly escalate when Janathan Miller starts giving Cario Sweet specail treatment, inviting her to a poetry reading, then gradually spends more and more time together outside of class, eventually Janathan Miller offers Cario Sweet a midterm assignment based on her favorite author, she chooses him, and writes a provocative peice based on him, a few days pass, and Janathan Miller refuses her peice, saying that it's inappropriate, and to redo the assignment and to pick a different author. She accuses him of leading her on, making her think there was something between them, he tells her he's sorry, and that she misunderstood the whole situation.
After Mr. Miller rejects Cario's advances, she soon reports him to the principal, the principal then talks to both of them separately, the principal then tells Mr. Miller that it doesn't look good for him, and he is then suspended from his job, Cario then plans to take him on, in front of the school board.
At the ending of the film, it's basically implied that things have fallen apart completley with Mr. Miller and his wife, and he has possipossibly lost his job, and the ending is left up to interpretation. In my opinion though, the ending felt flat, and the movie was supposed to be an erotic thriller, besides one scene, of Cario's peice that she wrote, there wasn't anything sexual about the movie, and apparently the movie was also supposed to be a comedy, I didn't really find anything funny about the film at all. Yes the film had two other characters, Coach Fillmore, and Cario's friend Winnie Black, but they weren't in the movie that much, and when they were it just felt like filler, like Cario's monologues, I understand they needed some more characters, but they didn't serve anything to the plot of the movie. Mr. Miller's wife Beatrice June Harper felt to have more weight to the movie then the other two side characters.
I honestly wouldn't recommend this movie at all, it was the longest 90 minutes of my life that I spent watching it, the movie Posin Ivy starry Drew Berrymore is a much better erotic thriller then Miller's Girl. Those are my thoughts on the movie, Miller's Girl.
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