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ilostmydiary · 18 days
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people will try sooooo hard to apply their own personal tastes to who you, personally, find attractive and it’s so bizarre. “i can’t believe you’d fuck him” Well Elizabeth someone has to. and for me it’s a privilege and an honor
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ilostmydiary · 18 days
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Miller's Girl Review
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It's a Tumblr movie. I'm really not even joking when I say, it's like the writer scrolled through TC Tumblr, compiled all the aesthetic pictures and flipped through a thesaurus. Actually, even that feels a bit Tumblr-y. That's not to say it was distinctly bad. It was very pretty to look at, and the music was fun. Very atmospheric and tense up until the halfway point. There's a buildup and very fast crash "back to reality" after the climax (pun intended) of the film. I'm going to give my analysis of the two main problems of the film, and how to enjoy it regardless.
Problems:
The movie kept forgetting it was set in a high school, so should have just been a college movie. I understand that it's more illicit and taboo if it's a high school senior and a professor, but they go out of their way to remind you she's an adult and put her in classrooms that look oddly college-like (like a small liberal arts college). I could very easily imagine this being a small seminar class for dedicated literature students. This would be a more competitive group, and would make sense for her to have read all the course material before the class starts ( don't remember even our best students doing that for high school and I was in a very competitive academic programme). And this would make more sense for Cairo's whole, '"I live alone in my big ancestral mansion, where my parents are never around," and "I've seen my prof in non-academic settings." It's a bit less common, but students and teachers have been known to run into each other in smaller college towns, I've known profs who openly meet students outside of the classroom, in tangentially academic settings.
Cairo's whole scorned lover routine doesn't make any sense. But it's clearly the part of the film the writer feels most strongly about. It's supposed to be an "oh shit" moment. But falls flat really quickly because it demands you to believe the character that had been fairly nice and level-headed for most of the story turns on a head at a moment's notice. She turns against her friend, against the person she has a crush on, and becomes very cold and distant. Cairo begins the story, eager to please, and led by her friend Winnie. She adores her professor, obviosuly. But then bizarrely hands in erotic fanfiction about her and her teacher. She says "You erase the lines then get shocked when I cross one without knowing." But Cairo... you're still a student, regardless of what relationship you think you both have, on what planet would handing in erotica be appropriate at the high school level. So either you have to believe she was blind to the consequences of her piece, or she knew all along and wanted a way to test and punish her teacher. Either she's distinctly naive and in love and then distinctly and suddenly conniving and purposeful, or she's been planning his downfall from the beginning. Neither of these are satisfying or realistic character arcs. Especially for a high school senior. The author doesn't seem to have compassion for Cairo as a naive subject, a young adult overcome in a taboo situation. So it feels as though she's supposed to be a villain, not merely naive.
Maybe the last point could have been fixed if it was only implied that she was purposefully vindictive if the first half of the movie was from her perspective and the second half was from Mr. Miller's where we only get his belief in her cruelty, rather than the truth of it. I think that may have fixed the movie. But it would take away the "he's a coward and he needs to be punished for being mediocre" evil villain speech.
How to enjoy:
Just pretend Cairo is a university/ College student. It just makes more sense for the plot, there are only a few moments that even feel very "high school" and only because of the background. Even Winnie working in a restaurant feels very college-y. It just makes more sense in that setting.
Embrace the TC Tublr-ness of it all. I keep saying in all my reviews that it feels like something I would have written at 16. I have such a hard time believing the writer of the movie came up with the idea for it anywhere after high school. It's like she had a really cool idea and then just held on to it for years. So just go back into that headspace, and enjoy the cringe of it.
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ilostmydiary · 22 days
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imagine not having a tc as a motivation to do everything. what would we live for? ourselves? couldn’t be me 🙃
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ilostmydiary · 7 months
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I wanna hear everyone’s summer updates before the semester starts.
I did a lot of travelling and got really really sick (not a big deal bc I always get really sick once a year lmao). Have a new living situation and have nooooo idea what I’m taking in the fall semester. It’s fully vibes.
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ilostmydiary · 7 months
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School is coming… the tc community is SO BACK 😙
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ilostmydiary · 10 months
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So… not to brag?? But I was right! Just had the best semester of my life! Got literally perfect marks on 3 final exams, (I think) 3 As and an A+ (one prof had an issue with entering marks in the system). Overall having a reason to be excited about academia helped.
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Not to be insane but this Pinterest board actually contributed in my gpa rise this semester. If I say it it makes it true.
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ilostmydiary · 1 year
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One of my profs shares the same hometown as me and went to the same highschool?? Okay 😦
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ilostmydiary · 1 year
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Romualdo Locatelli (1905-1943), ‘Portrait of a girl’
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ilostmydiary · 1 year
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Im a hopeless dork. I was having a great day, got some good news, got a lot of work done, and found n old song I love. It was going great, and I was stupidly skipping to the vending machine and I catch a glimpse of him as he’s leaving a class. It was an instant head rush. I swear I almost tripped trying to scurry away before he could see me. I don’t have him this semester, so I had no idea what do. I mean we’re in the same faculty so it was bound to happen but. Damn. DAMN.
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ilostmydiary · 1 year
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Academic weapon allert ‼️
Finished a whole book in two days. I’m so Rory Gilmore coded
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ilostmydiary · 1 year
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He agreed to be a reference on my resume!!!! My delusions that he’s secretly in love with me persist 🫶‼️
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ilostmydiary · 1 year
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I think I might k myself that was the most boring lecture I’ve ever had to sit through. I miss being excited for class. I miss being excited to learn. UGH
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ilostmydiary · 1 year
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Late to my first class
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ilostmydiary · 1 year
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me opening up tumblr to post about what my tc said in class today and then read what everyone else’s did today:
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ilostmydiary · 1 year
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i love when it’s a known fact that i have the highest grade in a hard class because that means he notices.
i also just like being better than everyone
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ilostmydiary · 1 year
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I hate when everyone starts liking something I like. Idk why
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ilostmydiary · 1 year
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I was watching one of his interviews and??? He smirks at the interviewer. Like he’s totally in his element, dude is killing it, then he gets a question and as it’s being asked he just does this lopsided smirk because he’s got a perfect answer in his pockets. Gahghfhfhd
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