Martyrs Review

Last night I got the chance to watch the movie Martyrs. Ok for one, I have very few moments in my life where I can hear about a great movie and not know anything about it. If it's at all possible, I'd love to go into a movie, not know shit and just take everything in with a new and fresh perspective. I had this pleasure when I went to see Inside and the experience of finding out the plot really had a stronger impact on me than it would have if I watched the trailer beforehand.

 So I did see a teaser trailer for Martyrs and it didn't give anything away so as I watched the movie, my mind was all over the place, but not in a bad, confusing, can't follow, kind of way, I wanted to know what the fuck was going on, I had to know what was next, where this was leading to, dude, where's my car!? 

I have to mention that, I can watch pretty much anything bloody, gory, balls out insane and the end result is me thinking it's totally awesome, freakin' sweet, oh so wonderful yet there is just one thing that makes me cover my mouth, cringe and get squirmy uncomfortable and that's self-mutilation scenes and maybe some torture stuff. This movie has way too much of that so I kinda got intensely uneasy during most of it. I guess in a way when a guy watches another guy get kicked in the balls and he shudders as if it's him, that's how I feel, as if I'm feeling this person's pain. Yet, it's ok when it's a killer killing a victim but it's the self-mutilation stuff that makes me want to look away. Anyway, I can go on all night about it but I thought maybe this information could be useful as a source if one of youse watches it and is not bothered by it, you'll at least understand why it disturbed me. 

Moving on to the movie. I don't really want to give much away or get into a lot but basically this chick was abused by strangers as a child, got away and years later as a young adult she wants revenge on her attackers and is helped by her best friend. Seems almost straight-forward but a lot of shit goes down. This is a movie that I really had to let sink in completely after I watched it, there were so many aspect I wanted to take from it but too much was going on, again, not in a bad way. As much as the bulk of everything made me uncomfortable, I thought this was a pretty great, kind of moving film. Personally, the horrible things that people are capable of doing sickens me but their reasons behind them also fascinate me. This movie is a great example of that. What these people do is so fucked up yet they strongly believe more than anything that it's for a good purpose and I think in a way, that makes it even more fucked up. But anyway, I guess you'd have to watch it to understand what I'm rambling about. As far as the ending goes, I thought it was really beautiful. I sat through a film that made me want to scream yet the end put me at peace. Kinda weird huh? 

So I think if you're ever in the mood for an "art house" kind of horror movie, you should check this out.