First impressions of the series “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle"

Hello, how are you, friends? Happy Friday! Happy weekend. I hope you are well with your family and can rest a lot if you have had a busy week at work or at home. Today, as I am already a little ahead of schedule as usual, I want to give a little impression of the movie I saw yesterday at home. And what I also noticed, as an interesting fact, is that it's a remake and a modern version of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle from 2025. To be honest, I think I did see the first one, or the one from many years ago, which is the original, but I don't remember, maybe I was too young. I want to tell you what I think about the movie, how it was, if I liked it, if I recommend it, and all that. The first thing I can say is that it's a movie with wonderful actors, familiar faces, very talented faces, and that was quite important for the development and plot and unfolding of this movie.

Look, I have to be honest, and I don't want to always sound a bit demanding, as I always say about movies, but I have to insist on this: unfortunately, as time goes by, those of us who are movie buffs and have a lot of experience watching movies and series over time have developed, so to speak, a certain predisposition toward some movies. This is mostly about psychological, drama, and psychedelic genres, we could say (correct me if I'm wrong), but I feel that as time goes by, movies surprise me less and less. Of course, because of the previous version and everything I've heard from other people, I knew what to expect from this movie. It wasn't that I was immediately disappointed; no, because I knew the ending of the movie, because it's a movie that many of us know, or the previous version, the old version.

But I have to be very honest in saying that there were some situations that felt very forced, a little slow, filler, dialogues that I found a little unnecessary. Let's see, Poli, the main character, is a woman, let's put it this way, who is well-off, has a very comfortable life, has a husband, has two children, but is going through postpartum depression, where she feels quite overwhelmed, where it is difficult for her to concentrate. Apart from all this, she has some issues, let's say, some kind of mental illness that she is controlling, quite well controlled, and she takes medication for it.

On the other hand, we see the antagonist, let's say the “bad guy” of the movie: a disturbed girl, an unstable girl, a girl who lives in her car, who goes around town all the time, has no aspirations, etc., etc. So, there was a kind of cliché there, where the wealthy woman, with good status, with an apparently nice family, needs help or a nanny and brings a girl into the house with few references. So, we really know how delicate that kind of thing is, bringing someone we don't know into our home.

Apart from all this, there are many things that are very predictable, such as when the babysitter starts stalking the protagonist. So, this thing about the typical woman with mental problems, with alcoholism, who no one believes, whose husband doesn't believe her, I mean, it's complicated when the person who is supposed to share your life doesn't believe you about these kinds of events or just thinks you're going through a crisis because you have a history of mental illness. So, this kind of thing is quite complicated, quite predictable, and it's the part I didn't like, because it happens a lot in movies. It reminds me of movies like The Orphan, it reminds me of similar movies where the typical husband doesn't believe his wife because she has some kind of history, whether it's alcoholism or psychiatric issues.

On the other hand, the antagonist, a rather violent woman, a woman with a very dark past. There were several things that made me say, “Why? What does one thing have to do with the other?” They included some dialogue, for example, about her sexuality, which has nothing to do with it. For me, personally (perhaps you have seen it and see it differently), with regard to the sexuality of the antagonist and the protagonist, I think it was a bit unnecessary. There were some dialogues that were unnecessary in my opinion, but I guess they wanted to give it a little bit of inclusion, a little bit of drama, a little bit more filler to what the movie is.

Yes, I can say that, well, in the end it's a super entertaining movie, it has very good actors, as I mentioned before, a little violence, I don't recommend it much for family viewing, because it does have, apart from the dialogue, some scenes that are a little bit risqué. But it's a movie that I would recommend for adults. Predictable, without a doubt, entertaining, yes, and I did like the performances of these actors. So, tell me, what did you think of it? And if you haven't seen it, I invite you to watch it.