...why was her apparent hatred of the daughter not really explored or resolved? It was looking like it was heading somewhere darker but then that aspect was just left by the wayside.
Apart from that it was thoroughly enjoyable.
A good question, but just like life, some things don't get answered.
I love how the movie didn't go anywhere obvious. Every time I thought that it was going to be another "Fatal Attraction" or "Single White Female" or else have a sappy ending, the movie went in some other direction.
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>> i thought it wuz answered prolly, etc.... <<
Can you type in something approaching English, or do you think textspeak is OK everywhere at all times?
I believe her hatred toward the daughter was just her anger of the daughter growing up becoming more independent and not needing the maid much anymore. She had her friends and life outside of the house and was slowly drifting from the family. Raquel (the maid) at one point even refers to the children of the household as her kids. She had no other life but this family for 20 years.. The hatred abated some as the maid started getting her own life when Lucy came.
shareI agree. Camila was the oldest of the kids and so the first to go through that independence phase. At the point in time that this movie began, that was already in full swing for Camila and so we didn't see how things initially started going bad. But when the mom went through that book of photos, there were ones in there of Raquel holding Camila when she was very young. And as the mom pointed out to Camila, Raquel raised her.
I think also Camila's own reactions in this movie are indicative. Yes, she complained a lot about Raquel. BUT when it came to something that could really and truly get Raquel fired, by the father since the mother was never ever going to do it herself, she blamed the damaged boat entirely on the other maid instead. Also, when Raquel collapsed later, Camila started tearing up and was clearly worried. So she really obviously had a lot of fond memories of Raquel from when she was younger. I think she just hit the teenage years, turned snarky and rebellious, and Raquel of course is not someone who can deal with that well. So Raquel took it as rejection and turned passive-aggressive, which made things worse. But did she hate Camila? No, I don't think so. She was just hurt, and resentful as a result.
And when Raquel starts getting better later in the movie, we can see the friendliness that she and Camila must have used to have being restored. Part of it was Lucy's influence on Raquel, part of it was Camila becoming nicer, probably as a result of Raquel's health scare that reminded Camila how much she really cared about her.
I also think it had to do with the fact that Camilla was able to grow up much more privlidged than Raquel was and Raquel was sort of jealous of Camilla. Also she may have felt that Camilla did not have a real sense of respect or awareness for how privlidged she really was.
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Nice view of you Frankieox, bravo... I can't do it better....
Other scenario by me : Camila is Raquel's daughter.. Look at the age difference between Camila and Lucas. Some people believe that adopted child can do miracle.
So many words in my head but I can't write it down... because lack of my English :(
Hablas espanol?
Si hablas espanol, estoy seguro que algunas personas pueden comprender que tu quieres decir... es una pelicula en espanol... :-)
What a great movie...
guys, I have the theme song link!! (pre-selected for Academy Awards in category Best Original Song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PFzUBAClx4
"Shoot a few scenes out of focus.I want to win the foreign film award"(Billy Wilder To a cameraman)
" What a great movie...
guys, I have the theme song link!! (pre-selected for Academy Awards in category Best Original Song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PFzUBAClx4 "
Thank you so much rapgcine for the link of the song, I'm gonna use it for the intro on my show.And I saw this film yesterday with my brother and my expectations were blown away , one of my favourite movies of all time.
Estoy de acuerdo.
No puedo hablar mucho espanol pero yo he estudiado en la escuela en los estados unidos (y es importante que indicar que yo dije "en los estados unidos" porque significa que yo solo empece aprender cuando tenia doce anos) por pocos anos, asi que debes hablar en espanol si tu quieres. (Lo siento si mi espanol no es muy bueno.)
In any event, I agree with what everyone was saying about Raquel's animosity towards Camila stemming from jealousy. Especially because Camila is approximately the same age that Raquel was when she started, so now she has everything and is going to do everything that Raquel never got to have and do.
I agree, I think Raquel could've been jealous of Camila, and this is just an idea, but she was 20 when she got to the house, and Camila was born the year after, so she could've been jealous. She grew up in a family that wasn't her own and that revolved around a new born baby that got all the attention. Maybe something like that had something to do with the hatred...
shareWhat puzzled me the most was when the mom confronted Camila in the beginning about her fights with Raquel, Camila replies (and I'm loosely quoting here) : "Mom, she's always hated me and you know it." It's implied that there has always been animosity between the two of them, even when Camila was very young.
I'm guessing it mostly has to do with jealousy, which has been mentioned here before, and Raquel's resentment about Camila being born into the family, whereas she had to work to earn everyone's affections and trust.
All that aside, I was really shocked to find out how young the writer/director is. This was deftly handled and intelligent cinema and I'm really happy I finally got to see it.
I also wonder whether Camila was always a bratty kid, in which case she would have been on Raquel's bad side for a lifetime.
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All interesting theories about her attitude toward Camila. I also thought that Raquel was bitter about her life, and somehow blamed Camila. Like she took the job at a young age, but wasn't necessarily planning to stay for 20 years. I think Raquel's bitterness was from not ever having her own life, or perhaps not knowing how to make herself happy (or that she deserved to be happy). When she met Lucy she learned how to focus on herself and enjoy life, and that it was OK to do so.
shareIgnoring your grown-up daughter when she complains the maid hates her doesn't make you a super mom.
Ignoring a disturbing (on so many levels) fact of your daughter scratched from family pictures makes you a horrible mother or even a little crazy yourself.
I also loved the movie but thought that this part was illogical - no seemingly normal mother would have let her stay in her house after finding those photos.