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Martyrs : The ecstasy of martyrdom

Martyrs (Martyrs - France 2008) Pascal Laugier
Martyrs (Trailer)

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France, 1971. A little girl, frightened and bleeding, fled in tears from an old abandoned slaughterhouse. After being found in a state of confusion, is carried in an orphanage. The police discovered that the girl was held captive in a room, dark and damp inside the slaughterhouse, for more than one year, subject to violence and torture, physical and psychological. However, little Lucie (Mylène Jampanoï) fails to tell the police nor the identity of their captors, much less the reason why she was kidnapped and subjected to the terrifying experience. The girl has no traces of sexual violence, and was immediately ruled out the track leads to a kidnapping for rape. But then for what reason absurd, Lucie has been segregated in that little room, tied to a chair for about a year?

Lucie s'isola orphanage, both by adults and other children, creating a sort of impenetrable wall for all. For all, except for Anna (Morjana Alaoui), another orphan in a short time, becomes his best friend.

Lucie One night he is visited by a mysterious and terrifying creature.

Fifteen years later, a happy little family consists of father, mother and two teenage children, is committed to the Sunday breakfast in the kitchen of their home country. Suddenly the doorbell rings. The father opens the door and found himself Lucie, armed with rifles. The girl, without showing any mercy, exterminating the entire family in cold blood. Made the massacre, Lucie calls Anna to ask her to reach her, but hooked up the receiver, it is immediately attacked by the same creature that night fifteen years before, had begun to haunt her: a woman horribly disfigured and deformed.

" Martyrs" written and directed by Pascal Laugier (in 2011 released his remake of "Hellraiser") and presented at Cannes in 2008, fits directly into the new wave of horror across the Alps (which did so much a miracle fans of the genre), defined by many as the nouvelle vague horror of the French and which includes such films as "Frontier (s)" by Xavier Gens and "High Voltage" by Alexandre Aja. This is the second film Laugier, after the acclaimed "Saint Ange" the 2004 film that I personally was not a little disappointed.

" Martyrs" is a film which, although characterized those elements exploit, which could be used to bring it to the so-called superficial vein Torture Porn , departs fairly recently decided by this modern horror subgenre. The explicit (and thus porn) process of suffering and violence that leads to death slowly, typical of Torture Porn , is accompanied in Laugier's film, an unusual component, in the absence of ' other words, I might call "modest". Nothing is shown off in a glorified and pleased. Rarely, when watching, one gets the impression that the suffering of the main character is used to urge the voyeurism of the viewer. In "Martyrs", in fact, there is an ultimate goal, a goal, all the torment shown or suggested, as if those offended female bodies, cut and mutilated, were merely the instrument used in a process of "research" and "revelation" that involves torturer and tortured, wearing a crown of light atrocious complicity.

Anna and Lucie, as the title of the film, they are martyrs (and not add anything else, to avoid spoilers). The term "martyr" comes from the greek μαρτύς ( martys ) or μαρτύρ ( martyr ) or witness. In this case martyrs / witnesses to the greatest mystery that awaits us all. The martyrdom as the genuine baptism and cleansing tool and means of revival (view as achieving a new state), through the pain and the annulment of his body. The punishment interpreted as an instrument through which is activated that particular mental state of suspension and elevation of mind, commonly called "ecstasy", shown in its meaning and "cancellation of itself." The deletion of "discursive rationality" and in favor of activation right brain, the "emotional" when the mind astonished, is immersed in a state of bliss, ready to absorb the most awaited revelation. Ecstasy, then, as the culmination of human possibilities. Self-knowledge achieved only through a long process of physical and mental suffering, tax, rejected and finally accepted.

Excellent test Mylène Jampanoï (Lucie) and the beautiful actress Moroccan Morjana Alaoui (Anna), on whose shoulders rests Throughout the second half of the film (that undoubtedly more interesting).

MEISTER STEINER SAYS: 8.5