The Maid's Room

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Alain E @AlainE Apr 13 Trying to cover one crime with another creates complications. The maid is the best drawn character in this piece. The ad hoc criminal family was left exposed from many angles. After the maid’s disappearance, for example, they kept all her belongings in her room. If you have a vehicle involved in a homicide and you want to conceal evidence, the simplest solution is to stage another collision, say with a tree and then have it repaired. Not keep it in the family garage. Finally, the son starts as an indifferent a-hole who develops a strong sense of guilt in the second half. In other words the story needed more work. See more Ęxçëşș M @ExcessMale 11/12/2022 Bill Camp ultimately turns in a very convincing performance in this somewhat limp indie that lacks a conclusion. See more farouk b @RT21369507 10/02/2022 Promising thriller, but not very well developed and mediocrely finished. Paula Garcés' performance is one of the few good things about this movie. Once she is out of the scene, the story deteriorated rapidly and never gained coherence again. See more 10/19/2021 Seriously! No definitive ending, lousy acting, A real POS! See more ronald h @RT44372985 12/19/2020 Critics have hammered this film for its glaring symbolism and its not-so-subtle socio-economic message: The super rich are snooty, arrogant, and evil, and the working class are honest, ethical, and honorable. Yeah, it's simplistic, but it works well anyway, in spite of ever-increasing plot silliness. Paula Garces is well cast as Drina the maid, an illegal Colombian immigrant hired by a wealthy Long Island family to keep their summer mansion spiffy while they are away and their teenage son is having a leisurely break before he goes off to Princeton in the fall. The son comes home drunk one night in a wrecked car. When the parents return, he claims that he hit a deer, but Drina discovers that he killed a man on the road and left the scene. The father, a really rotten guy played by Bill Camp, realizes what happened and offers Drina an envelope full of money to leave the place and keep quiet. She refuses the bribe, insisting that he call the cops. I'll stop here, because there is one hell of a turn halfway through. Why did I like this movie more than I should have? The acting, aside from Garces, is middling, and the second half degenerates pretty far into absurdity. I liked it anyway. I guess I'm just a Marxist at heart! The cinematography is excellent, belying the film's modest budget, and the soundtrack music elevates the suspense. Those two elements lend a bit of a Hitchcock feel to The Maid's Room. Not that it's on Hitchcock's level--it's not. But it's still worth a watch. Haters of the 1 percent will appreciate it. As to the critics who have complained that the film portrays both the rich and the working class as stereotypes, all I can say is so what? Stereotypes don't come out of nowhere; they derive from reality. See more 12/11/2020 Pretty good, wanted more. See more Read all reviews

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