Giles Harris-Patel

The movie in my opinion was unrealistic in the book choices, it was if the screenwriter and the director, Jade Bartlett. Did not read any of these works because no high school in the US would allow their students to read Henry Miller in any of his works because of the provocative nature. Even though his work broke the rules of narrative and thematic structure with his narrative memoir style in The Obelisk trilogy. I enjoyed the movie by itself, but as someone who read the works of every author mentioned from the Russian Romantic, Alexander Pushkin, and I struggled to read "Finnegans Wake" by James Joyce. The book is a masterpiece to the insane, and chaos to the critics. The blend of the dreamlike quality is interesting with the combination of the cyclical nature shown through language. If any high schooler read "Finnegans Wake" without having a aneurysm, it would show their ability to critical think because the book is meant to be read out loud, rather than read. That was my only beef with the movie, after my rewatching. I come to understand the nuance of the relationship and power dynamics. However, I could not embrace it because Jenna was excellent and mature in the role in playing the uncomfortable. As well as Martin Freeman in playing the role as the teacher and the feelings towards it. However, I would watch "A Teacher" by Hannah Fidell, the movie or the tv show because it displays a more power dynamic between the teacher and the student. That the teacher, even though a woman, the teacher has the power rather than the student in the relationship. Mr. Miller and Cairo are two-dimensional characters with the only personality they have are books and writing. That's it. "A Teacher" displayed the nuance feelings of how teacher-student relationships damage both parties and their future, while illustrating their third-dimensional characteristic. These characters were two-dimensional and attempted to be flushed out through literature and that's it. Henry Miller wasn't given justice for this masterpiece of contemporary cinema. The movie failed to neglect the innovation that Henry Miller given for English Literature as an innovator. They treated all of the writers as plot devices instead of authors who talked about subjects that were taboo and helped revolutionized modern literature. What pisses me off was they did not talk about their contributions, but made Cairo fascinated with Henry Miller for his notable contributions: eroticism and non-linear narrative for memoirs. I tried to write an analysis on "Finnegans Wake." I describe it in one word, as I describe the movie, "Miller's Girl" "bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk"