{"id":21935,"date":"2016-08-16T03:17:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T07:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=21935"},"modified":"2020-07-29T11:10:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:10:37","slug":"let-me-make-you-a-martyr-2016-fantasia-international-film-festival-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/16\/let-me-make-you-a-martyr-2016-fantasia-international-film-festival-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Me Make You a Martyr (2016) [Fantasia International Film Festival 2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"martyr\"<\/a>The official plot for Let Me Make You a Martyr is \u201c[a] cerebral revenge film about two adopted siblings who fall in love and hatch a plan to kill their abusive father.\u201d (IMDB.com)\u00a0 Watching the film, the plot doesn\u2019t seem that simple.\u00a0 Multiple people plot to have another killed while living difficult lives as best they can, some trying to do some good at the same time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Co-writers\/co-directors Corey Asraf and John Swab show a snippet of life in a poverty stricken town, building characters that have very little positivity in their lives, a certain despair floats over the whole thing.\u00a0 The story meanders a bit from character to character as it establishes them and their relationships.\u00a0 As the two leads work towards their goal, we get to see sad, desperate people and a lot of gloom.\u00a0 This story is dark and filled with dark souls looking for some light, some love, and maybe some redemption.<\/span><\/p>\n

The cast here is strong and led by Sam Quartin as June Glass\/June Bug, Nico Nicotera as Drew Glass, and Mark Boone as Larry Glass.\u00a0 Marilyn Manson is top billed but while his presence is very felt, his part is fairly small in terms of screen time.\u00a0 The leads all do well, Quartin and Nicotera shining the most in this bleak piece of cinema.\u00a0 They reflect the hard lives their characters have lived and all the things they have seen in how they carry themselves and communicate with others.<\/span><\/p>\n

The look of the film here is very grey, like everything has a gloomy layer on it.\u00a0 Cinematographer Jeff Melanson frames all this greyness and the misery in an unflinching manner, never shying away from it all.\u00a0 A few bright, more hopeful scenes show a bit of happiness in colors and moos, beautifully contrasting the rest of the film and giving it more power.\u00a0 Supporting these images, Ginger Shankar adds a score that suits the mood, the images, and the feeling of Let Me Make You a Martyr.\u00a0 The score is not too in your face, but it does add the right amount of feelings to the scenes while contributing to what is seen on the screen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let Me Make You a Martyr is a depressed and depressing film.\u00a0 Its story is almost completely devoid of any happiness or joyful moment by design.\u00a0 What little positivity there is gets quickly snuffed out.\u00a0 Misery is the central theme here, with a tragic love story and attempts at redemption anchoring it to the soul of the script.\u00a0 The small, desolate town spirit runs throughout the film where everyone seems to be interconnected somehow.\u00a0 The performances drive the film and are done with talent and nuances.<\/span><\/p>\n

For those wanting to see this for Marilyn Manson\u2019s presence, be warned, while his performance is strong, he gets very little screen time.\u00a0 Another music performer getting some screen time her is rapper Slain who also does well.\u00a0 Let Me Make You a Martyr is a study in misery, unhappiness, bad luck, and desperation that succeeds in putting its viewers in a similar mood, this reaching its goals with gusto.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fantasia International Film Festival ran from July 14th<\/sup> until August 3rd<\/sup>, 2016 and will be back in the summer of 2017.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The official plot for Let Me Make You a Martyr is \u201c[a] cerebral revenge film about two adopted siblings who fall in love and hatch a plan to kill their abusive father.\u201d (IMDB.com)\u00a0 Watching the film, the plot doesn\u2019t seem that simple.\u00a0 Multiple people plot to have another killed while living difficult lives as best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2497,1284,12],"tags":[240,590,696,840,1087],"class_list":["post-21935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasia-fest","category-festivalsevents","category-movie-reviews","tag-crime","tag-l","tag-murder","tag-revenge","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21950,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21935\/revisions\/21950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}