Anthony El-megerhi I expected the movie to be great since one of the producers is Antonio Campos he's known for his unique confusing films he make ,not to forget to mention the master of this movie Sean Durkin , what an outstanding ,catching story ! this man must win an Oscar just saying . this movie as my title says keep you wondering about the missing pieces of the story it doesn't make the film boring at all it makes it mystery there's philosophical arguments that will make you think , i like the eccentric character rolled by Elizabeth Olsen it has a lot of drama and weird actions i don't think any other actor can do the same job she did she really fir the role . if you're into mystery/drama types of movies go watch this now .

hxamaranth Yes, it could have been the cult coming after her and yes they might have forced or coerced her to return or killed them all but it could also have been no more than some stranger that they almost hit and the rest could be Martha's intensifying paranoia constructing what we were seeing.The goal though was to get the audience to ask these questions but I think Durkin failed in defining the intent of posing this question which was to illustrate Martha's own confusion and uncertainty about her paranoia, not the audience's confusion about what happened. I could possibly suggest that he use a tighter close up on Olsen to capture the nuances of her expressions showing her fear and uncertainty but I think he tried to use a different tactic...Note that at times of her most paranoid, she is visually alone in the scenes. In the back of the car we don't see Ted and Lucy in the front seat. At the dinner party she is alone with the bartender despite the fact that there were dozens of people nearby. During her final swim she is alone when she sees the man sitting across the lake watching her. Even when she awakes in a panic and pushes Ted down the stairs we don't see his face or Lucy until after the fact. When she breaks the window on the black SUV, when she hears the pine cones hitting her window at night... she is alone.I think we as an audience just weren't offered a way to tie our own questions with Martha's state of mind. Maybe if there was a scene in which Martha asks these same questions to Lucy. Maybe if they shot from a first-person perspective. I don't know but it just didn't quite work for me.

Jonathan C The psychological thriller is an old film genre that has had many great entries; directors have experimented for many years with the possibility of using the oblique view of the movie camera to depict madness's loose grip on reality. My own personal favorite is Hitchcock's Spellbound from 1945, when Ingrid Bergman tries to convince Gregory Peck that he is not losing his mind, despite the limited info that the audience gets to render its own judgment.MMMM is a worthy update of this tradition for our century, because it plays on so many of our nightmare scenarios and then creates a real nightmare for us to "enjoy." Elizabeth Olsen is simply awesome as a troubled younger sister who makes a bad choice and ends up inside a horror show ala Charles Manson. (Unlikely, but it could happen!) The film, like Spellbound, is told from her point of view, which is very uncomfortable since she is clearly going mad. The movie goes for a dual narrative--her descent into lunacy at her sister's house parallels a series of revelations that we get about the cult as she relives her recollections. We are never sure what is reality and what is simply a nightmare; she says as much, at one point asking her sister, "Have you ever been to a point where you can't tell if something is a memory or a dream?" Her sister responds "no" but this is because she is the sane one. Some people might be uncomfortable with all of the cinematic trickery--the parallel narratives, the nightmarish portrayals of the reality of the cult, etc. I think it is terrific--in a movie of this type you should be disoriented. You not only get the story, but you get it as the lunatic actually experiences it, which makes it all the more disturbing.Additionally, this is a movie designed for some degree of realism, as opposed to the soppy entertainment and cheap thrills that come with other psychological thrillers. I think it is convincing--PTSD and psychotic cults are a reality of our world, and the acting from Olsen and Hawkes really takes us there. So much so, that I suspect that there will be negative reviews of this flick out of sheer revulsion. If you are in for this, however, MMMM is a modern masterpiece, a scary movie about some things that may well be true; we just don't know.

brchthethird This was an excellent psychological drama with an impressive performance by Elizabeth Olsen. She plays a young woman who escapes from a cult and stays with her sister, but still has memories of the life she left behind that interfere with her ability to reintegrate. The whole story is rather subdued, but has some moments of quiet intensity and pain. I also liked how the story of her past and her present are intercut and told side by side, with each event having a parallel in or triggering a memory of something that happened to her before. The only downside was (what I felt to be) a rather anti-climactic ending. Other than that, it was a great indie film.