![]() When he teaches her to pick up a handful of dirt and smell it, get it on her face, she really does it, and seems to enjoy it. Maya’s not exactly enthusiastic about the job, it seems like she’s being forced into this as a remedial thing, but she’s open-minded and earns her place quickly. It’s not an odd request on its face, but Norma makes it weird – awkwardly referring to Maya’s mixed race, implying judgmental things about her and her mother, then avoiding ever seeing or talking to the grand niece after she’s arrived. (According to Wikipedia, Swindell uses they/he pronouns, but the character doesn’t.) He’s very loyal to his aging heiress boss, Norma Haverhill (Sigourney Weaver, ABDUCTION) – including having sex with her on demand – so he does as she says when she instructs him to take on her troubled grand-niece Maya (Quintessa Swindell, BLACK ADAM) as an apprentice. This time the journal-writing weirdo narrator is Narvel Roth (Joel Edgerton, JANE GOT A GUN), the fastidious horticulturalist in charge of Gracewood Gardens, an estate in Louisiana (filmed at a former plantation). Which is one of the things I love about him. This one is thematically related to those, and Schrader has called the three of them his unintentional “Lonely Man Trilogy,” but the template goes all the way back to TAXI DRIVER and has been loosely repeated over and over again throughout his filmography.
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