The Housemaid: Nothing is even close to what you would expect

I went to this movie for one and only one reason, and that is I love Psychological thrillers and stories that play with your perception of things, and that is the trailers promised, also for some reason I just love movies and characters with titles that are essentially "the" in front of "something very common" because all of a sudden this mundane thing has this aura of majesty to it.

Think the Caretaker from Marvel's Midnight Suns, an amazing game absolutely no one played due to entirely superficial reasons(sorry not sorry).

If you haven't gathered I am making a comparison to a superhero comparison very deliberately...

No that has nothing to do with my Superhero obsession shut up.

The movie begins by our introduction to Millie Calloway, someone freshly out of prison who has to maintain a job in order to not go back to prison apart from the whole "the world runs on money" thing.

At the very beginning we see her give an interview at the Winchesters' house for the position of a live in housemaid, she wears glasses to appear knowledgeable and everything, even though as she leaves she dryly remarks that one background check will reveal her past, and she will probably never get this job either.

And as that happened I had my "oh look! Its that guy!" Moment when Michelle Morrone was introduced as Enzo Accardi the supposedly "creepy" gardener.

If you don't know this is the guy who is Masimo from 365 Days, every time I saw this man on screen, my attention shifted from this erotic psychological thriller to the explicitly erotic fanfiction of 50 Shades of Grey which was again an Erotic fanfiction of Twilight which was not a Fan fic but written to be like one and inspired from my Chemical Romance for some reason...

So we are like... knee deep in Erotic in that one.

I am sorry man I know you are a good actor and all and apparently you got a good voice too(sorry never heard your debut album) but every time I see you on the screen all I can think is that I saw you fire your gun as a gangster and then your biological gun as a... gangster in Laura's bed...

I am so sorry I gave everyone reading this PTSD, I promise to live and learn from my mistakes.

And seeing his role in this movie I see it as a redemption for Don Masimo after Pushing Laura away to those Delicious Nacho Chips...

What am I writing? I need help.

Thank me later for not taking a screen grab from a like two seconds after this.

Yes, everyone, Laura sees both her potential lovers Kiss.

Okay enough side tangent.

The movie covers a serious topic, I must be serious now.

So as anyone with half a brain cell can guess that she somehow miraculously does get the job, otherwise she wouldn't be a housemaid and then the movie wouldn't be... well I guess they could just show her miss one interview before the one she gets... no but then precious time...

Focus.

So she gets the job, and she has to live in with the Winchester couple and their child.

Seriously, what did you think was gonna happen Millie? You're living in the fucking attic...

I mean we all knew that something was wrong when this too good to be true job fell in Millie's lap.

And things began to be especially suspicious when Nina Winchester started acting like a certified crazy woman.

This movie knows that you believe you know what kind of movie you are watching.

It is very apparent from the start that there is some sort of trap being set for millie here, in a lesser movie, Nina and Andrew would be working together in some sort of sick twisted scam to trap unsuspecting housemaids with nowhere else to go.

And if you thought that, you were partially correct, a trap was set, but only Nina knew about it.

And she did it to be free of Andrew...

But we don't get to know that yet...

Again, at the point in the story that Nina is thrown out of the house, I guess we loose the scam theory, and in a lesser movie we would expect Nina to come back and attack Millie and Andrew's happy life...

But there is one hole in that theory, and that is that by that point it is established that Nina knew Millie was a convicted criminal..

Why would she hire her so?

Did she think she could get away with it cause Millie had no where to go and Andrew was that madly in love with her?

Maybe...

And that uneasy theory continues in your head right until Millie breaks a piece of Andrew's favorite China, and she is locked in the Attic...

Then we learn, who the true Abuser was.

This movie knows your assumptions, and it calls them into question, it makes you ask yourself, am I that blind?

I know most abuse victims are women, most abusers are wealthy attractive men like Andrew, why then did I not think the obvious from the start?

It very subtley calls attention directly to a very real problem.

If this were real life, you the viewer would side with Andrew, because he knows how to play with your perceptions, and he can exist anywhere, and he is very difficult to escape, expecially if you have a child like Nina did or a record like Millie.

But Millie knows how to defend herself, and Nina knows how to pay her back.

Thankfully this movie had a happy ending.

But most real life stories like this don't, so by the end when Nina suggest Millie to another abused wife, and I was sitting in the theatre, I realized a single thing...

This looks like a superhero origin story, minus the superpowers, like think about it right.

The Housemaid, she comes to your home, she cooks, she cleans and then kills your abusive husband.

Who do you call when you have an abusive husband to kill? The Housemaid of course!

Amazing.

Hey I am allowed to have fun!?!