T. Sean Durkin showed rare restraint and successfully created suspense for a story that is likely to be overpowered.
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If one day, when you find out that the people closest to you have fanatically believed in a religion, and also gave their most precious things, how would you feel? Two Sided Martha tells a story based on just such a premise. The film was written and directed by T. Sean Durkin. Regarding this work that he personally worked on, T. Sean Durkin said: "This film is based on a true event. I used to read it in the newspaper. There was such a report that a young woman with a good family and career abandoned her family, gave up her job, became addicted to it, and finally committed suicide because she believed in some kind of cult. That report was very She described everything about this woman in detail and interviewed her relatives and colleagues, which shocked me. The most unexpected thing about this woman was the last conversation this woman had with her parents before she gave up the whole family. She Very calm, very firm, and there is an air of fear between the lines, I think this power is really terrible, so I decided to shoot such a story to tell everyone that this is a real problem in our society."
Religious themes have always been a relatively sensitive forbidden area, and "Double-Faced Martha" is more directly about the influence of cults on people. Regarding the scale of the film's narrative, T. Sean Deggin said: "In the film The religion does not refer to any group in the real society, which is inevitable. When creating the story, I have tried to avoid linking with reality, and I have not put too many stories on describing what this cult has done. .I don't think this is the focus of my discussion. The purpose of writing this story is to tell everyone how much harm the cult has done to people. The audience will follow the camera to experience the story that Martha once experienced in this religion. This is not It was a delightful process, and I didn't want to make this movie grand, and rely on it to attract attention, so I will stop at this part, and in turn will focus on the other side of Martha's departure from the cult. life after that.”
"The story is a two-line structure, and uses some interludes and flashbacks." T. Sean Durkin continued: "The purpose of this is to hope that the audience can see the two lives that the heroine has encountered at the same time, Everyone can make a natural judgment as to which kind of life is more worth pursuing. The girl in the story is in her early twenties. She knows almost nothing about this society, so she was deceived and suffered many hardships. , these make her grow up, but does this society really respect her, what kind of eyes will everyone use to look at her past, and what can we do to such a person? "Double-Faced Martha" will have a show with the audience. The exchange of these issues."
The Crisis of a Happy Family
Elizabeth Olsen, who plays Martha, is a 22-year-old actress whose age matches that of Martha in the film. This film is her second feature-length feature film. The first "Silent House" is a horror theme, and the theme of this "Double-Faced Martha" also tends to be gloomy. For this new work, Elizabeth Olson said: "I actually had doubts when I got the outline of the story, because I didn't know if I could make it well. But the director gave me a lot of encouragement. We checked a lot of materials and let me start. Gradually get to know this group that I was not very familiar with in the past. This story is very sad and very memorable to me, especially the past encounters of Martha I played, the past will affect your future, this film tells such a It makes sense."
Sarah Paulson, who has starred in films such as "Firefly", "Fall With Love" and "Ghost", played Martha's sister Lucy in "Double Martha". For this role, Sarah Paulson Sen said: "In 'Two-Face Martha', what my sister does is to comfort her and heal her past trauma. It's a very likable character, and she never gave up during her sister's disappearance. After the pursuit of her sister, when her sister returned home unexpectedly, she treated her selflessly and gave her the warmth of a family. And this role is not flat, she is also angry, sad, and angry. A real role, she has various influences on her sister." The film was
shortlisted
for the Un Certain Regard category at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival.
The film is director Sean Durkin's feature-length debut, and Elizabeth Olsen's first film, but it was released after her second film, The Silent House.
The film was well-received after it was released at Sundance and was considered to be "Winter's Bone" in 2011. The two little-known heroines in both films were blockbusters, and they were played by John Hart. x.
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