Miller's Girl - Movie Review

Jenna Ortega and Martin Freeman star in this new exotic thriller that truly has its owns audience. Miller's Girl I found to be something I plan to never watch again.

A talented young writer (Jenna Ortega) embarks on a creative odyssey when her teacher (Martin Freeman) assigns a project that entangles them both in an increasingly complex web. As lines blur and their lives intertwine, professor and protégé must confront their darkest selves while straining to preserve their individual sense of purpose and the things they hold most dear.

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[Black_pearl_adrift]

The thing that threw me off the most is this movie feels like what a teenager who was super into their teacher would write. It has the faux deep vibes of someone whose an impressive student and wants to explore like dark romance. I cannot fathom how an adult could write this

[DomieLuvRih]

Couldn’t agree more. Total lack of substance and opportunity to address the ick of the main subject. But then I found myself the only woman in a movie theatre filled with old men…🙃 so ya. I adore Ortega, but I don’t think she understands how people sexualize her through casting.

[jayvon]

The trailer comments of this movie are literally littered with older men saying "it's okay, it's legal anyway. it's not weird to want 18 year olds" 🗿

[LeonardoDiCapri-Sun]

I also just found the setting so weird. First I couldn’t figure out whether it was a high school or college… and they gave no sense of there being any other people there or a student population of any kind. Plus the way the teachers and the girls would speak to each other and hang out and even smoke together was so strange. I could believe it if it was meant to be college but certainly not high school. Maybe because I’m not from the US, but none of it made sense to me and it took me right out of it.

[Steve_G]

Jenna Ortega should fire her agent for letting her do this one

[popsandpuns]

You forgot to mention the green june bug. That was a pretty good performance.

[mmven]

Let's not pretend like the girls in these situations dont know what they are doing. I could relate to a lot of the stuff in this movie, as a girl.

[kds]

As I understand it the screenplay was written years ago and was bounced around for a while. I’m seeing it for Jenna tomorrow, likely in a theater by myself as well

[filmerdude]

Yeah, when I heard what the movie was about, I wasn't about it. Then, my theater decided not to show it, so there's no way I can even check it out and review it myself, haha. Honestly, love your reviews, I always get what I need to know for films before seeing them!!!

[idkimjustafan]

i watched this film for jenna only. i’m a huge fan of her but this film didn’t hit for me. i thought she was phenomenal with her acting & i enjoyed her but other than that, it was mediocre. this was filmed pre wednesday so i’m hoping she’s being a little more choosy with her roles.

[nicsports]

I honestly didn’t mind it. My biggest issue was the end. Like, there was no conclusion. That pissed me off.

[tequilasmith]

It was so intense. As a reader it was somewhat beautiful yet ofcourse uncomfortable. It was good movie and jenna ATE..but i understand not liking the movies implications.

[TheTrmetzgar]

After watching this movie I have a different take on the ending. This might trigger a lot of people but I think they end up together after the credits, Let me explain. Cairo and her teacher had a genuine infatuation for each other but not in the way she wanted. Although her fixation was on her mentor she turned on him because in her eyes he was an impostor of his real self and in a way she was correct. It seemed like everyone including his wife didn't completely respect him as a writer for playing it safe. in regards to his wife, was it just me or was his wife just an older version of Cairo. Like Cairo, his wife expressed the same desire for her husband but wanted him to be a little more adventurous but he refused to explore that side of himself and stay steady which is why he turned away from Cairo because he realized that he was wrong? Although Cairo was upset by the rejection she was very smart so on some levels understood that this weak, sad version of the man she desired would need to be transformed into what he wanted one way or and other. I think Cairo planned everything so when she confessed how she basically destroyed her teacher it became clear to me that she wanted to separate him from his current life trappings and release the writer inside and by extension the man she wanted. Not quite "The Crush" but a more nuance approach to the guilted lover / get him back plotline. I think the whole movie was his written confessing to the world that although his stepped over the line and used his position of power in and inappropriate manor he lied about not wanting to be with her and that is what she really wanted. In the finale scene it looked like after being made aware of his confession she forgave him. The tears in her eyes and the minimal smile she had implied to me that she still wants him and now that he has lost everything he is free to be he man she wants. I might be wrong but that is my take.

[ВероникаЖуковская-хе]

From one side the film is telling of the reasons why such things happen in real life, but from another side it looks like a fanfiction written by a teen. So, I thought what if the story on the screen is actually told by Cairo and she is an unreliable narrator who is making up in her head all of these pretentious dialogs that didnt actually look like that in reality. If she made up the scene from her essay, maybe we just see a story told by a teen from a teen perspective? Like "Lolita" used to be chritisized for sexualizing a young girl that flirts with an old man, but actually the author wanted to tell the story from Humbert's perspective that he made up to convince himself he was not doing a crime. What do you think?

[vannestch]

Thank you for saving those 93min of my life!

[annedubouch]

This is definitely the movie Jenna Ortega and Martin Freeman shouldn't have played in

[MrStabbyTime]

This movie was disgusting wtf was the director thinking 😭

[stephentepper]

Good review. If I never see the movie my life will be improved 7:20

[PoetessPossessed]

I enjoyed your review... :) Have you watched Saltburn?

[Natalia-jnul]

I felt embarrassed from the first to the last minute of this horrible film. Jenna needs a new agent urgently! She is too talented to attach her name to amateur productions.
Her career is taking off, and she needs a sequence of good films, just like Anya Taylor-Joy and Timothée Chalamet have done, for example.