In Reality: It's hard to imagine the horrors that hotel maids are forced to brave on a daily basis. Surely everyone reading this has had at least one negative experience with a room that wasn't quite as clean as you'd like, finding something icky somewhere it shouldn't have been. It makes you wonder what the room looked like before the maid got a hold of it. Is there anything worse than being tasked with changing out bedsheets decorated with all manner of bodily fluids from strangers? In a fair society, scrubbing skidmarks out of someone else's toilet should match the compensation of Fortune 500 CEOs. Instead, it barely pays above minimum wage, (and in the cases of less reputable establishments, sometimes less, being that a percentage of that workforce is made up of illegal immigrants who have no choice but to work under the table for lesser pay). And if Law & Order is to be believed, smart money says you're going to stumble onto a dead body at some point. In The Film: Let me just start by asking if anyone has ever seen a hotel maid that looked anything like Jennifer Lopez? No disrespect to the wonderful ladies of the hospitality cleaning field, but there aren't too many women like J-Lo out there and the few that are sure aren't grinding on their hands and knees wiping toddler poop stains out of cheap carpet. This movie is basically a modernized retelling of Cinderella, the beautiful damsel who works a craptastic job being saved by her prince. It's a safe bet that a romance similar to this has never happened in the entire history of mankind. Jennifer Lopez' character is able to pass herself off as someone else because she has on a fancy coat, and engages in a whirlwind romance with a politician who breaks it off when he finds out she was lying about her identity, because if there's anything our elected officials abhor it's dishonesty. But alas, true love can't be restrained by the flimsy nuances of false identities and untruths and the two reunite, living happily ever after. Yeah, not happening.
Brad Hamilton is a writer, musician and marketer/social media manager from Atlanta, Georgia. He's an undefeated freestyle rap battle champion, spends too little time being productive and defines himself as the literary version of Brock Lesnar.
