Martha
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Movie Reviews of Martha
Movie Review: Excellently disturbing
Summary: 5 Stars
Martha is a typical Fassbinder film of social criticism, this time focused on marriage, how people marry for the wrong reasons, and how this ruins the lives of both husband, wife, and children.
In this movie, Martha, a 31-year-old virgin marries Helmut, a wealthy engineer. From dating to marriage, Helmut completely dominates Martha and makes her do things she doesn't want to do. He makes her ride rollercoasters with him which she fears, he makes her listen to his favorite music, makes her read a book about his profession which she finds boring. He even finally orders her not to leave their house, so that she can exist exclusively for him. He has very violant sex with her, which includes bites, bruises, even when she is heavily sun-burned. He both physically, mentally, and emotionally terrorizes her.
Why does Martha, at least for most of the movie, let Helmut do this to her? This is a result of a loveless marriage between her mother and father. Both were unhappily married, disliked one another, and often expressed that onto Martha, frequently putting her down. Her father makes fun of her all the time. Her mother calls her a disgusting 31-year-old virgin and blames the father's death on her. As a result of this, Martha needs someone like Helmut to dominate her and usually finds Helmuts sadistic behavior acceptable.
Even other people in the movie are heading in the direction of unhappy loveless marriages. Her boss at the library asks her associate to marry him after Martha turns him down. Martha's sister also gets married out of pressure.
At the end, the marriage between Martha and Helmut has tragic consequences. I think the message of the movie is a criticism of society and how many people get married for the wrong reasons and end up destroying their lives.
People anywhere in the world can relate to this movie and I think people should watch it before making the final decision on popping or answering the big question.
Note: The scene where he has violant sex with her on their honeymoon is quite disturbing.
Movie Review: Fassbinder's best movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Martha" is both a horror movie and (as Fassbinder said of Hitchcock's "Suspicion") "the most drastic film I know against the institution of bourgeois marriage." Filmed for German TV in 1973 with cinematographer Michael Ballhaus (who went on to shoot, among other films, Coppola's "Bram Stoker's Dracula") "Martha" features hysterical performances by Margit Carstensen and Karlheinz Bohm. Fassbinder ripped the plot off from a Cornell Woolrich story, and this kept the film locked up in legal limbo for years. It has been out in Germany for almost ten years, and now American viewers decide for themselves if the title for this review is just guff or what. "Martha" is Fassbainder's riff on Hitchcock's "Suspicion" and "Marnie," George Cukor's "Gaslight," and Max Ophüls' "Caught," all films about a sadistically authoritarian husband who psychologically coerces his wife. Filmed in the candy-color style of Universal-era Hitchcock, "Martha" is super-creepy and hilarious. Cheers to Fantoma for their lovely digital transfer of this criminally under-seen film.Movie Review: See This Movie.You will never see another like it (!!!)
Summary: 5 Stars
See This Movie.You will never see another like it.
THEY WILL NEVER ALLOW ANOTHER LIKE IT TO BE MADE AGAIN (!!!).
A brilliant black comedy,
On a subject never before seen in a movie or elsewhere for that
matter.
This movie is as unique as CALIGULA.
YOU'LL LAUGH TILL YOU DROP (!!!).
HILLARIOUS********
Movie Review: Eery
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie awakens feelings in you that you try to supress. You don't know which characters you like and which you think are moronic. Fassbinder's use of camera angles is brilliant and you leave wondering what kind of person you are and whether you have morals or not.Movie Review: Absolutely Amazing
Summary: 5 Stars
Pure Genious,The world will never again see
a movie as great.
Should be compulsory Viewing at all
Boys Schools and for all Young Men
Today.
It will Open Up their Eyes,
Completely.
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