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Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
A steaming pile
I just finished watching this movie and felt compelled to write down my thoughts.
Its been a while since I've watched a movie that made me feel this way. I'm not angry but I feel something close to it. This movie is a flaming pile of fecal matter. The only good thing about it is that you get to see Elizabeth Olsen naked and you know there's a problem if nudity is the only thing going for a movie.
I watched this because I like Olsen and her other movie Silent House. Here, the acting and production quality are fine, but the story has absolutely nothing going for it. Having likable characters isn't a necessity, but there has to be at least one or more characters that have something about them that makes you want to keep watching. It isn't just the main character with this movie; none of these characters are likable or compelling in any way. At first, I felt sympathy for Martha but not for long.
I get it, certain people can get brainwashed by these cult-like groups and it's an unfortunate situation but Olsen and her gang weren't just weak and ignorant; they were also pretentious, self-entitled, and so unlikable that I kept thinking, why am I watching this? They went well beyond the definition of sheeple. And the ending was the toilet clogging after pinching out this giant loaf. If it wasn't for Olsen, I would have turned this off well before the ending but I was definitely getting there.