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The Housemaid is a thriller that does a really good job of building tensions.

The movie focuses on a woman named Millie who starts working as a housemaid for a rich family, but she however quickly realizes that something is off with the house and the people living there. 

Instead of it being scary the whole time, the movie makes you feel uneasy and suspicious which honestly made it more intriguing. 

One of the best parts of the movie in my opinion is the acting from the wife of the house (Nina).

You can tell how nervous and trapped she feels just by the way she reacts to the smallest things, especially in the beginning when she has a meltdown and accuses the maid of stealing her PTA notes for a meeting. 

The setting of just the house itself adds a lot to the plot and foreshadows craziness, the house feels uncomfortable even when nothing is happening. 

“The movie makes you feel uncomfortable on purpose, but that’s why it keeps you hooked the whole time,” shared Cora Anderson ‘27.

That feeling is what keeps the audience paying attention and trying to figure out what is really going on. 

By the end, it all starts to make sense and shows that the true psycho was the husband the whole time.

Andrew, the husband, really highlighted the power control he secretly had had over these women and how he was in complete control.

Millie breaks the power control dynamics, takes control and locks him in the room to later end up killing him.

Millie and Nina then walk free with full power, but then we see Millie moving into yet another “perfect” family, suggesting that Millie doesn’t just accidentally walk into broken homes. 

This movie highlights that behind seemingly perfect, wealthy homes, some live in cruelty, where women are unable to protect themselves from their abusers, and their survival requires choices that are not pretty.

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