- Content: “Lurid Feminist Thriller”
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What You Need To Know:
THE HOUSEMAID is suspenseful, with plenty of plot twists. However, the plot twists and sex scenes are rather lurid. They also involve deceit, betrayal, adultery, revenge, and some extreme violence. They’re also a bit unbelievable. Eventually, the plot twists reveal that the story has a Romantic, lawless, politically correct worldview. As such, it promotes a strong feminist, anti-capitalist view of rich white men. THE HOUSEMAID also has lots of strong foul language and some brief explicit nudity and other non-explicit nudity in the adulterous sex scenes.
Content:
Strong Romantic, lawless worldview promoting a strong politically correct feminist, anti-capitalist view of rich white men;
At least 67 obscenities (including at least 49 “f” words), one strong profanity using the name of Jesus Christ, one GD profanity, and seven light profanities;
Some very strong and strong violence with some blood includes characters lock up people in small attic bedroom and force the locked-up person to do violence to themselves in order to be freed such as pull out a front tooth and to cut their stomach 21 times with a sharp shard of a broken object, character stabbed in neck, a person is knocked down some stairs, two people fight atop a spiral staircase, and a third person knocks the villainous one off the landing to their death below, child found underwater in bathtub, but she physically survives, character deliberately smashes some prized and expensive China plates out of spite and revenge (partially justified), flashback shows a young man trying to rape a coed, but another woman beans him with a paperweight, and he dies;
Two scenes of briefly depicted adultery, scenes of implied adultery, passionate adulterous kissing, married man carries unmarried woman to bed in two or three scenes;
Partial upper female nudity during one sex scene, implied total nudity in three or four other sex scenes but nothing explicit shown, upper male nudity in several scenes, and rear male nudity in one scene;
Alcohol use, a scene of drunkenness, husband takes housemaid to dinner after viewing a play and they drink too much at dinner;
No tobacco use but, man’s wife appears to be taking drugs for her psychological problems, and someone says she tried to kill herself with pills after allegedly trying to drown her young daughter (daughter survived, but there’s a hint that the husband may have done it to punish his wife and send her to a mental institution); and,
People lie and hide the truth about themselves, a character spies on two other characters without their knowledge, one person asks another person to do things, but then denies it later, woman falsely accused of stealing, villain manipulates other people.
More Detail:
When Millie accepts the job as housemaid and nanny, the lady of the house, Nina, comes across as super friendly. She even gives Millie a new smartphone to use for her job because Millie’s phone is so old. Nina is very self-conscious about keeping up appearances among the other rich ladies in the local PTA.
However, the first morning after a nice dinner, Nina turns out to have more than just a screw loose. She’s super angry and accuses Millie of throwing out the PTA speech she was working on the previous day. Nina’s husband, the handsome Andrew, intervenes and tries to calm his hysterical wife.
As the days pass, Nina seems to have it out for Millie. For example, she makes Millie order tickets to a hot Broadway show Andrew wants to see and to a hotel in the city afterwards while Nina’s daughter, Cecelia is away to camp. Then, when the tickets and hotel reservation arrive, Nina denies order Millie to order them. She lies to Andrew, saying that she told Millie that she was driving to visit Cecelia at camp the Saturday that she had ordered Millie to buy the tickets. Andrew tries to calm Nina again, saying that he’s sure he can get the credit card company to cancel the order, even though the tickets are supposedly “nonrefundable.”
Nina drives to Cecelia’s camp for same day. While she’s away, Andrew informs Millie he was wrong, and the credit card company couldn’t refund the ticket and hotel. So, he suggests that he and Millie go see the play, have some dinner, and drive back home.
Of course, the plan involves Andrew lying to his wife. Worse, the stage is now set for a torrid affair between Andrew and Millie.
This situation is bound to go off the rails at some point.
THE HOUSEMAID is suspenseful, with plenty of plot twists. However, the plot twists and sex scenes are rather lurid. They also involve deceit, betrayal, adultery, revenge, and some extreme violence. They’re also a bit unbelievable. Eventually, the plot twists reveal that the story has a strong Romantic, lawless, politically correct worldview. As such, it promotes a strong feminist, anti-capitalist view of rich white men. THE HOUSEMAID also has lots of strong foul language and some brief explicit nudity and other non-explicit nudity in the adulterous sex scenes.
