Movie Review: Miller's Girl

 

Michael's Movie Grade: F

Complete and utter trash. 

This film tries so hard to be smart and sexy that it ends up as neither. This is the worst kind of movie there is, it is a dumb movie that thinks it is smart. This can be seen first and foremost in the dialogue. This is dialogue that tries much too hard to sound literary but instead only comes off as pretentious. There is hardly a line of dialogue that sounds like anything someone would actually say. The dialogue between the characters is awful and the narration is even worse. All of this immediately takes you out of the movie and makes it hard to take anything seriously. This is not to say there is anything to take seriously about this film. The whole storyline revolves around supposed sexual tension between a girl and her older English teacher. However, none of this sexual tension can be felt by the audience. There is none of this kind of chemistry between the characters or the actors. Much of it is also treated in such an over the top and unbelievable manner that we are not able to buy it for a second. To hear the main girl talking with her best friend about their sexual desires for their teachers is either unintentionally funny or just plain gross. As a guy, I may not know how teenage girls talk to each other about having crushes, but I can guarantee you it sounds nothing like this. Some scenes try to be fully erotic and sexually charged but come off as much more awkward and embarrassing than actually sexy. Some of these "sexy" moments made me feel embarrassed to be in the theater watching this movie (even if the theater was empty). The movie also tries to take a very dark twist towards the end, but it simply doesn't work. It simply comes out of nowhere and does not fit anything that happened earlier in the film. It also is nowhere near as thought-provoking as the filmmakers think it is. Actually, this flaw is part of a major problem for most of the runtime. All the main characters are simply bad people. By adding these major flaws, the filmmakers feel like they are making some sort of complex character study. However, there is nothing interesting about these characters and no real point the film is making. Because of this, the whole movie feels mean-spirited as we are simply watching terrible people be terrible people. 

All in all, this is just a deeply unpleasant and pointless film.