The Maid’s Room is a great domestic thriller

The Maid’s Room is a great domestic thriller

By Jenny Alvarez

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Drina is an attractive, intelligent immigrant who takes a job for the season as live-in maid to the Crawford’s, a privileged New York family who maintain a splendid home in the Hamptons. But the Crawfords spend most of their time in the city, but their teenage son, Brandon, who is starting Princeton in the fall, is summering at the beach, and Drina must look after him and his spoiled friends. Since the maid’s room is next to the garage, Drina can’t help noticing when Brandon returns late one night, noisily and obviously drunk.

Then Brandon showed up unexpectedly from college and Drina witnesses him committing a horrible crime. Drina knows that if she reports Brandon she’ll lose her job, and the Crawfords show the dark side of family loyalty by closing ranks and insinuating that they will do whatever it takes to protect him. In this case the situation is intoxicating, and it also places her in far more danger than she imagines.

The Maid’s Room is a psychological thriller that explores the complex relationships between truth and justice, hubris and power, wealth and fear and the most interesting part is that topics like immigration and domestic servitude are related to Dina as a good sample of lack of value as an individual and as worker in USA. It has an intriguing plot with certain violence but very well structured dialogues and characters. In an interview for GalaTView Paula Garcés from Colombia said: “This movie is very well written but I never have played a character like Drina because is a film full of suspense and horror. Psychologically makes you think deeply about a situation similar to the Drina’s in which you don’t know what to do so I wanted to take the opportunity with this kind of role. “

Definitively a great movie you can’t miss to see for a perfect weekend with your friends or beloved people.