From writer-director Jade Gulley Bartlett’s repeated statements to the press, we learned that it took some time before the idea of ​​making a film about unacceptable relationships and bullying in school and academic environments in the United States was realized on film.

Appeared approximately in 2010-2011, that is, very soon after the beginning of the movement #I also (2006), the idea needed clarifications, nuances, which were required by the desire not to make the film a construction that operates with simplified demarcations, so that the viewer is encouraged to divide the characters into good and bad people from the very beginning. There is such a distance between the birth of the idea and the release of the film Miller’s favorite somehow it turned out both for the benefit of commercial success on our screens and for the benefit of the Romanian viewer, who for about two years read many articles in the press documenting sometimes not completely impartial and not always very reliable, with -pres visible from the mail, stories similar to the one in the movie, stories that happened very often, about 20 years ago, in the universities of our country.

What is the movie about? Miller’s favorite? Cairo Sweet (Jenna Ortega), still a teenager, the clearly intellectually gifted daughter of a highly sought-after and, accordingly, very well-to-do family of lawyers, aspires to a future literary career. Bored, in a hurry, and lonely, I’d say too good, Cairo decides to attend the course Creative writing Jonathan Miller (Martin Freeman). The author of the book who decided to become a teacher because, without any other explanation, it is obvious that he is going through a creative crisis. His surname cannot but lead the student to think of another Miller, no, not Arthur, but Henry, the writer who appears for the management of the college in what the French call les enfers from the libraryiswhatd. Fascinated at first only by the giftedness of his student, flattered by the fact that she has read his book, Jonathan at first violates the prohibition against visiting the writer for this reason. He then allows Cairo to complete her thesis in advance, facilitating her access to the upper class, absolutely necessary for admission to a top American university.

The matter becomes even more serious when the teacher allows the student to write a paper in which he sews up the forbidden Miller. The pastiche is perfect, so good that Jonathan feels more than emotionally involved as he reads it. However, he is aware of the danger, understands that everything has gotten out of control, so he asks his student to prepare another work. Hence Cairo’s proud and mad revenge, an act based on a diabolical plan in which he manipulates her colleague Winnie (Gideon Adlon), who is flirting with Professor Phillimore (Bashir Salahuddin), to enter.

Complaints to the school management, well-known internal investigations, even a partial admission of weaknesses and guilt, Jonathan’s removal from his teaching position, his imminent dismissal, the deepening of the crisis in his marriage to a Romanian alcoholic (Dagmara Domničyk), a crisis that mattered from the beginning in the mistake, follow the teacher, the exposure of the manipulation to which Winnie was subjected, so that her possible testimony in favor of the teacher is not at all credible. There is even a danger that things could get worse for Professor Boris Phillimore. All this is consumed between repeated coffees and cookies of the friendly Borys’ own production, which, however, does not mean that alcoholic beverages have been forgotten. – Read the entire article and comment on contributors.ro