The way they all treat Millie

I hate to be unkind to my fellow women, but I have to wonder if you're being sarcastic when you're calling Shelly Duvall beyond beautiful. She is so incredibly unattractive that I constantly found myself distracted from the film. I grew up watching her on some kid's tv show, which I can't remember now, and I remember how much her face scared me because she looked like a cadaver. I try to account for other people's tastes, and look for the good in other people's appearances, but from her sunken eyes to her nonexistent eyebrows to her painfully buck teeth, I honestly cannot comprehend what is supermodel-like in that.

Well, now I've been unkind. I'm sorry. I just wonder if you're even being serious. I feel like Sissy Spacek herself was a fantastic example of someone I've never thought was attractive, who turned out to have a unique beauty. I couldn't look away from her.

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It's just dumbfounding why nobody seems to like her.
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Unfortunately, I believe it is very obvious and believable and heartbreaking that there are a few "Millies" out there, who get ignored to the point where they barely exist. Millie is kind and loyal and hard-working and very decent, but she's needy in the extreme and her almost total lack of faith in herself makes her a pariah. Nobody wants to have anything to do with, for fear of association. Those who ignore her and are so rude to her probably are as scared and uncertain as she is, but they have at least a little know how and have some sense of the rules of the game. When Millie says to Pinky "You don't drink. You don't smoke. You don't do any of the things you're supposed to be." It's so funny and yet it's so sad and very disturbing. Millie has deluded herself into believing this kind of heartless reality based on commercials and magazine ads. Because she has nothing else to guide her on life. Her parents are both dead (and Millie is still quite young) and it also feels like they didn't much want her to begin with. She doesn't have the gumption or spirit or the strong instincts to help her find her own way as an individual - many of us don't, that takes a lot - instead, she just relies on what she is told. She is extremely gullible and to others, she is a total embarassment. I suppose it is easy to understand where they are coming from - nobody wants to be alone - but it's a terrible shame the way life has treated Millie.

I really didn't think it needed to be explained, she was borderline narcisstistic. She seemed to think that she was important and popular when reality it was quite the opposite. Was she really known for her dinner parties, the way she talks about how guys want to go out with her when it really isn't the case, she only brought the bar owner home because he seemed to be the only one to notice her or give her any attention and that was an affair.

'Buffalo hunting? I've gone buffalo huntin'? What the *beep* does that mean? Buffalo huntin'!'

Millie was extremely self-centered and narcissistic. All she did was talk about herself. Anything she did that might have appeared on the surface to be "thoughtful" or "considerate" was actually in service of herself in one way or another. After Pinky jumped off the balcony and ended up in the hospital, all of Millie's kindness was really just to alleviate her own feelings of guilt. Most people find that character trait to be very off-putting, no matter how physically attractive a person is.

Yes, good analogy Nan, because in a sense they had a 'them and us' attitude as though they were still hanging out in high school. It wouldn't look cool to have Millie tainting their clique. Why she even wanted to anyway, was born out of Millie's lack of self-awareness. They would have just been condescending and sarcastic to her face.

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I just watched it for the first time. I didn't hate it but it is not the be-all that critics (at the time) and boarders (now) seem to think. I like the script and Spacek was excellent in her transformation. Duvall? She was good, I guess. There's something about the way she reads a line that is always similar no matter the movie. I will undoubtedly watch this again and maybe my thoughts will evolve but right now, only s'ok.