This film which really depicts life in a Cult and the programming that accompanies it. In order to fit into a cult one cannot question anything - when she escapes the enormous impact it has had on her emerges, it leads you through her emotions and how she can't adapt to life outside the cult nor did she fully embrace life inside it, she is a boat without a sail stuck in the middle of an emotionless sea, she feels she can't fit anywhere or that the world can't adapt to her even worst she can't communicate how she truly feels.
The relationship with her sister is very revealing yet both have build a large wall between them that her older sister wants to tear down. Martha has different understanding of how life works a reason why she let some things slide in the cult (the sex, the lifestyle, because it was all explained to her as something normal), how sometimes that lifestyle was comforting and why other things were horrible and bothered her, and the subtext was so good, and disturbing, particularly when she says "there's other ways of living", giving a direct critic to her sister and her husband and showing that she wasn't fond of there lifestyle choices and leading to her family can't understand her behavior and labeling her as an outsider.
MMMM had real potential and it made Elizabeth Olsens careers but sadly the characters weren't better developed and more backstory wasn't given, I'm not saying I have to be spoon fed the hole story in order to understand it but Wouldn't it be fascinating to know where Martha encountered Patrick's group for the first time? and how she was convinced to join them, Wouldn't you love to know more about Martha's home life growing up and why it compelled her to join a the cult? This film should've focused more on the characters motivations and some background to it.
Yes the story is broken from modern stand point in that it isn't a linear progression. The way they laid the past and the present together and allowed them to twist together makes the movie. it's not a thriller, its telling the life of a young women and her lack personality, it was a bit drab and unconvincing. It was watchable. The ending was like they ran out of film stock...or the director thought "I'll be clever by having an abrupt non-ending and the audience will figure the ending for themselves it's not like that's my job ". But it wasn't clever, just incomplete and even if it was meant like that we wanted some sort of closure, all the ending dose it feels cheap.
The relationship with her sister is very revealing yet both have build a large wall between them that her older sister wants to tear down. Martha has different understanding of how life works a reason why she let some things slide in the cult (the sex, the lifestyle, because it was all explained to her as something normal), how sometimes that lifestyle was comforting and why other things were horrible and bothered her, and the subtext was so good, and disturbing, particularly when she says "there's other ways of living", giving a direct critic to her sister and her husband and showing that she wasn't fond of there lifestyle choices and leading to her family can't understand her behavior and labeling her as an outsider.
MMMM had real potential and it made Elizabeth Olsens careers but sadly the characters weren't better developed and more backstory wasn't given, I'm not saying I have to be spoon fed the hole story in order to understand it but Wouldn't it be fascinating to know where Martha encountered Patrick's group for the first time? and how she was convinced to join them, Wouldn't you love to know more about Martha's home life growing up and why it compelled her to join a the cult? This film should've focused more on the characters motivations and some background to it.
Yes the story is broken from modern stand point in that it isn't a linear progression. The way they laid the past and the present together and allowed them to twist together makes the movie. it's not a thriller, its telling the life of a young women and her lack personality, it was a bit drab and unconvincing. It was watchable. The ending was like they ran out of film stock...or the director thought "I'll be clever by having an abrupt non-ending and the audience will figure the ending for themselves it's not like that's my job ". But it wasn't clever, just incomplete and even if it was meant like that we wanted some sort of closure, all the ending dose it feels cheap.