Blog Project 2
My biggest reason for choosing The Housemaid directed by Paul Feig is because its the only movie I have seen that has come out in the past two months. I have seen other movies that came out recently however this is the most recent one. The movie stood out to me because I had recently just finished reading the book about a month prior so I wanted to watch the movie because I enjoyed the book.
This movie has a few very known actors and the main male character was recently in a hit movie It Ends With Us by Coleen Hoover. First we have Sydney Sweeney playing the housemaid, she is an American actress twenty eight years old most known for the roles she played in the show Euphoria and Anyone But You. Amanda Seyfried played the role of Nina who is the wife in the movie, most commonly known for her roles in Mamma Mia! and Mean girls. Brandon Sklenar played the role of Andrew, the husband most commonly known for his role in It Ends With us and 1923. Finally for the biggest actors we have Michele Morrone known for his roles in the 365 Days movie collection. Paul Peige is Sixty three years old best known for directing Brides Maids and Ghostbusters. The movie is about a girl Millie hiding that she recently got out of prison over a big secret she is trying to keep, she is on parole living in her car looking for a job as a housemaid or anything else that she can get lying to employers about her past. She lands a job with the Winchester's, a family of three seemingly perfect families however Nina the mother in the family turns into an impossible woman to work for making Millie's job a living hell. While Millie is working for them not only does her secret past get revealed but so do the families deep secrets. The Housemaid has made 350-383 million while their production budget was 35 million. The two most interesting things I found about the movie being made is one, the movie's ending is different from the book and for one of the scenes they used real china to break in the scene.
In comparison to Feig’s other works, I see a common theme in that the main actors or in this case actresses are almost always women. We have bridesmaids centered around a group of women as well as Ghostbusters; a group of women hunting ghosts. The thing that stands out to me that is different is that none of his other works are psychological horror films. After a search of other physiologic films, the ones I can speak on because I have watched, the movie Ma by Tate Taylor and Fractured directed by Brad Anderson; a similarity is that all three had a rather disturbing plot twist ending. A difference The Housemaid had from those two is the Housemaid is much more sexualized.
I think this movie raises awareness about domestic violence and the extremes that it can be led to. This matters because a lot of women and men go through domestic violence and sometimes people don't do something about it because they are scared.I think it does reflect our world in some aspects; 12 million people in the U.S. experience domestic violence annually. The target audience is adults because the movie is R rated. Trying to not spoil the movie, some possible stereotypes could be that women are the crazy ones and that women adore men, in this topic throughout the movie every woman that even just looks at the main male character Adrew becomes basically obsessed with him. An example is Nina falling in love with him instantly, all of Nina’s friends consistently talking about how attractive and amazing Andrew is. Then of course Millie not being able to resist the temptation of getting closer to him even though he is a married man.
The best thing I saw in the movie is the scenery and set up of the movie. The house the movie was based in was absolutely beautiful, the plot twist was very unexpected and the producer did an amazing job at slowly making the movie more intense. There was just the right amount of mind games leading up to the big twist at the end and tying it all together very nicely. For example Nina asking Millie to pick up her daughter and when she arrived Nina told Millie she would have never asked her to do that and to never make a scene like that again. Small mind games that left me confused as well. My biggest complaint about the movie was that Millie played by Sydney was very sexualized and most recent upbringings of Sydney being sexualized I think there was more the producer could have done instead. This movie is Feig’s best work, the most watched movie he has produced. I do not think this movie will be forgotten soon, in the past couple months of it being out I still get multiple tiktoks on my foryou page about the movie and the actors are very well known so it makes the audience more interested in watching it. Scarlett Dombrowski writes “If you can’t tell by the sound of it, this movie was horrible. The writing and predictable sequence in the beginning were laughable. It was anything but a psychological horror movie. I went with a friend,and we sat there cackling as Millie tried to homewreck the relationship between the people she was working for.” Monica Castillo writes “At times, the editing looks a bit choppy, stitching all the pieces together, and the dialogue earned some unintended laughs from the audience.” One thing my opinion differed with was the editing looking choppy. However, I did agree with what Scarlett wrote.
The biggest social media used was tiktok and instagram, I think they used the actors to the fullest potential in the marketing aspect. I think choosing Sydney and Brandon were amazing choices given the fact that they were both in very popular romance movies. Using both their social media to market the movie. What I have found the most is truly about the characters and their appearance throughout the movie and their way they behaved. I have not bought another movie or read anything more of the producer, however, I will most likely be re-watching Ghostbusters now that I have more information to go with the movie. I watched the movie with my mom and she actually really enjoyed the movie, she actually sat down and watched it and my mom never truly sits down to watch something on the T.V she is always working or working on a puzzle while listening to the T.V in the background.
My biggest takeaway was that the movie was big on shining light on hidden domestic violence. I got so caught up in the social media aspect of the movie that I forgot it was raising awareness of domestic violence and it makes me view the movie differently and actually like it more because in the end they got away from the violence.
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-housemaid-amanda-seyfried-sydney-sweeney-movie-review-2025
https://www.dailybloid.com/interview/the-housemaid--amanda-seyfried-and--sydney-sweeney
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