![]() Elizabeth Olsen absolutely knocks it out of the park with her performance. This is not some Hollywood cliché about PTSD, but it's a complex, heavy, powerful depiction of the anxiety, delusion, paranoia and growing madness of someone who is haunted by ghosts that just won't go away. The point is to draw us, the audience, into the mind of a person who's suffering severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. But as suspenseful and powerful as the plot is, that's not the point. And in order to get a grasp of what's going on, you really have to watch the whole 102 minute experience. Why was she there? What did they do to her? Are they hunting her down? Perhaps stalking or planning to kill her? There are no quick answers, but instead the film jumps back & forth between 2 timelines: the current one after she escaped, and the past one where she is slowly being initiated into the cult. Mystery surrounds her, as she doesn't want to talk to anyone about it (brushing it off with a manufactured lie about some ex-boyfriend), and we the audience are kept in the dark for almost half the film. It's the story of a young, late-teen, early-20s girl who escapes a bizarre cult commune, and now she's attempting to adjust to a normal existence. Ok here's what you can expect if you choose to watch M.M.M.M. I'll be the first to admit that some days I'm just not in the mood for "2001: A Space Odyssey" and I'd rather just pop in. ![]() So let's hope my 1st two paragraphs were enough to help you make a decision on whether or not to watch this flick. It may feel frustrating, annoying, outright boring and torturous, but if you like your movies on the slower, more cryptic, artistic side, then I guarantee you won't be disappointed. ![]() And yes, I purposely used the analogy of slow electrical torture because that may be how it feels to some of you. definitely takes the latter approach, slowly seeping under your skin, never quite giving you the cathartic release of a good zap, but overall delivering just as much power as any popcorn-spilling slasher, but in a very different way. But before you click away in search of Saw IX, consider this question: Which is more powerful, a bunch of quick forgettable shocks, or a slow intensifying charge that builds up over 102 minutes? M.M.M.M. Even the title "Martha Marcy May Marlene" is so boring that most thriller audiences will fall asleep before they finish reading it. ![]()
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