Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Martha Marcy May Marlene 2011


Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
     Martha is living on a farm operated by a cult, she really doesn't know what she has gotten herself into.  The cult expands by just picking people up who needs a place to stay.  In the beginning, she believes everything she is told but gradually she learns that there is a lot going on that she doesn't know about despite the fact she has been there for 2 years.  She calls her older sister who comes and picks her up, she tells Katie that she had a boyfriend and he lied to her.  OK, this doesn't explain why at Katie's house she went swimming nude, why she sleeps in her towel after a shower, why she can't seem to fit in with normal people?
     I didn't know what this was about before watching this film, there is a lot of weirdness and it does peg my weird meter.  The one important item that I learned is that you NEVER want to become a member of a cult.  Their plan is to keep what is wrong with them hidden as long as possible.  Then how do you get away?  3* (This movie is OK)

106 min, Drama directed by T. Sean Durkin with Elizabeth Olsen, Christopher Abbott, Brady Corbet, Hugh Dancy, Maria Dizzia, Julia Gamer, John Hawkes, Louisa Krause, Sarah Paulson, Adam Thompson.

Note:  Blockbuster 3 1/2*, imdb 7.2 out of 10, 90% critic 72% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.

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