I really love Mila’s acting here, and I only recently realised that the red marks on her cheek aren’t unfortunate acne scars – that’s the mark left by Balem’s slap. That the slap left such a vivid mark indicates the force with which he must have struck her and how painful it must have been.
You can truly see Jupiter suffering here, struggling to reconcile her love for her family with her responsibility towards the Earth. Mila manages to convey a strong sense of pain and injustice, and I think this is the point where she begins to realise that she’s going to have to let her loved ones die.
I find this moment very powerful, and it annoys me that this crucial scene is often disregarded or dismissed because it doesn’t fit with the prevailing narrative of Jupiter as a weak-willed dimwit.