Day: April 8, 2012

he talked me into watching sucker punch, and a more enervating, nasty piece of claptrap i haven’t seen in a long time (and i watch films produced by luc besson). do not watch this. not for any reason. the cgi stuff is dull too. pretty but dull.

Martha Marcy May Marlene explores the fractured identity of a young woman who spends two years in a cult of sorts before escaping to stay with her sister. The young woman (Elizabeth Olsen) was named Martha by her family, but given the name Marcy May by the cult leader, Patrick (an astonishingly good John Hawkes). Marlene is the name each of the women at the cult use to answer the phone with when someone calls, usually to track down a missing girl. The names reflect blood family, adopted family, and then the collective of women who service the men in the cult, and both compete with and betray each other for the attention of Patrick. Continue reading Martha Marcy May Marlene