On Thursday I went and saw MMMM at the Downer theatre. I thought that the film was pretty good but found myself wanting it to just be over for the last twenty minutes. But perhaps that was mostly because it was making me uncomfortable and think of things I didn't want to, and not so much because the film was getting a little slow. The film deals with this girl's trauma of being involved in cult up in the Catskill Mountains. Her believable trauma reminded me of horrors in my own past and that was unsettling. Besides that, I thought the film was shot great and in a beautiful location of a house on a lake. I have always been a fan of the Olsen Twins since I was little and I liked seeing their gorgeous sister on screen. I thought John Hawkes character of the cult leader could have been fleshed out and made to be more of a real character. I think the film would have been a lot better if we'd gotten to know him more. He was more of just a typical character and caricature of a crazy Manson-esque cult leader.
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