A movie basically about people that arouses no deeper feelings inside of you other than scorn and shame. Even if you think hard, no character at all evokes any sympathy or compassion, and it is like being tortured for two hours with lame dialogs between mediocre people. So, if you like going to the movies to be touched, to feel involved with characters, consider twice before buying a ticket, unless you are a dishonest, pothead mediocre person with a failed and despiteful life then maybe you will enjoy it. If you liked the movie and are none of the above, maybe you just have a terrible taste for movies.'
Main Characters
The Boss Father: Inherited a lot of money from the parents, so he doesn't need to work and can be home leading a mediocre life smoking, eating ice cream and grudging on the fact he is a sh*t of an artist. Married to a fat pig and with a poor relationship with her, he tries to seduce the Maids daughter, adding another moral failure and misdeed to the infinite list of defeats in his life. Thin and weak as a moribund, you can only feel disdain for this pitiful character.
The Boss Mother : Fat and superficial, compensating the fact she is a whale with expensive clothing and life-style, surrounded by the Fashion media and social events about superficial sh*t. Terrible Mother, leaves her son to be looked after by the Maid. She suffers and have fits from lack of love and attention from her husband and son, making herself a victim, because she probably forgets she married rat for money and that she neglects her son since his birth. On the rare moments she is talking at dinner time with her teenage son, she advises him that he can smoke weed, because herself and her husband had smoked a lot of weed during their lives, but that he should "slow down" and don't smoke all day long. A good and generous employer in spite of everything described here.
The Boss Junior: Typical middle-class Brazilian teenager, smokes weed all day, doesn't study and is most concerned about his virginity and enjoying life. Fails on Exams for College, something which was already for granted due to his lifestyle. The parents, instead of teaching him a lesson and making him make up for his failure studying more, give him as a solace a Trip abroad to Australia so he can "study" there. The stupid teenager, after crying all the previous day long about his results on the Exams, all depressed in bed, appears smiling and excited about all the nice beaches he will meet in Australia. This method is very popular in Brazil, mainly on middle class, on teaching stupid teenagers how to deal with failures and consequence, and values on effort and reward.
Maid: Makes you rage in the first scenes of the Film when she returns the pot to Boss Junior and at the end, after quitting, when she steals the cups and coffee pot back (and laughs about it with her daughter - for Brazilians, stealing from those who have a bit more money than you, or your boss, is OK). Her personality shifts when her daughter starts living with her, and by end of the Film she passes the idea that she starts thinking being an employee is humiliating.
Daughter: Makes you range from the very first minute she shows up on the screen until the very end. She is abusive and has a distorted personality, leeching her mother and everyone around her, with no regard to her mother's job or the fact she was an intruder staying as a favour. She also 'innocently' enticed the Boss' desires by welcoming his proximity and favours. At the end of the Film she was the main reason her mother quit her job. In the end, both of them are unemployed and have a kid to take care of, but all they're worried about is having a cup of coffee and laughing about the stolen porcelain.
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