Nonna's Rating: $
Rotten Tomatoes: 90%
Audience: 74%
Martha Marcy May Marlene is a disturbing movie. I realize I'm not going to be particularly analytical, logical, or objective about this film. It's well made and well acted, a psychological thriller that does not belong to the realm of "this-could-only-happen-in-the-movies." What is particularly disturbing is the ordinariness of the of the main character, a young woman who slips in and out of a "family" which, at the beginning, has somewhat benign similarities to what might have been the early days of the Manson family. Evil resides at the center of this film. Not evil as depicted in the devil movie genre or evil as portrayed in thrillers about murderous psychopaths, but elemental evil: the darkness we might all be capable off; the darkness we choose to rise above. If you watch it, be with someone you can talk to afterwards.
Nonna's Rating
$$$$ = Worth paying the Friday evening
$$$ = Worth paying the Matinee price
$$ = Worth a rental
$= Wait for cable
# = Skip It
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