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March 13, 2022,
She always deserves a second look.
A third or fourth too.
So does her movies.
Elizabeth Olsen has quite a resume, bio and story. She has starred in some very intriguing tales.
Elizabeth is an American actress who was born in Sherman Oaks, California.
Elizabeth began acting at age four.
She starred in her debut film role in the incredibly creepy thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene in 2011, for which she was acclaimed and nominated for a Critics’ Choice Movie Award among other accolades, followed by a role in the horror film Silent House.
That was an incredibly unnerving film. Martha.
For those of us who feel, at least on some levels, we have been part of a cult, we get it. We understand.
Ms. Olsen received a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination and graduated from New York University two years later.
We’ll give you our take on “Martha Marcy May Marlene” if you can say it fast five times in a row.
Very good. We’re impressed. We couldn’t.
Martha Marcy May Marlene is a 2011 American dramatic thriller film written and directed by Sean Durkin, and starring Elizabeth, John Hawkes, Sarah Paulson, and Hugh Dancy.
The uncomfortable plot focuses on a young woman suffering from delusions and paranoia after returning to her family from an abusive and dangerous cult in the Catskill Mountains.
We can really relate to the film because some of our associates were in an organized religion for decades that those on the outside described as a cult.
We obviously didn’t feel that way at first but eventually, as we begin to make our exit, so many of the expressions that our members said over and over began to feel like company speak.
Orwellian mind text.
Once we left, it felt like an all-encompassing cloud was lifted.
And once that cloud is lifted, it is as though your life is starting over. Your friends are all gone because you are now viewed as an Apostate.
Where do you go from here?
You have to rebuild and not make the same mistakes that you did when you were young.
Who will be your new friends and circle at middle age? You most likely alienated your family.
We will always remember that night, and the feeling, as we lay in bed, realizing it was over and perhaps, we wasted 20 years of our life. Our youth. When it really mattered.
The good news is, in our experience, we could leave without the other members coming after us.
In the above film, no such thing.
There, if you leave, not only are they going to come after you but possibly murder those who try and stop them.
Extremely well-done and very uncomfortable at the same time.
That was the film in general.
Elizabeth’s role in particular was unsettling, mesmerizing and masterful.
It was such a contrast to her role as the “It Chick” in the uneven but, message understood film, Ingrid Goes West.
Here in Mary, she is all over the map and the terrain is filled with quicksand, choppy waters and predators hiding behind the thick trees.
Her character navigates them carefully but not perfectly and takes us along for a ride where we wish sometimes we were not in the car and we absolutely want to make sure that the door on the passenger side is unlocked.
Here is the storyline.
A 22-year-old woman named Martha has been living as a member of a cult in the Catskill Mountains for some time. The charismatic cult leader, Patrick, granted her the name Marcy May upon her initiation.
Eventually, she decides to flee and escapes into the woods, arriving at a nearby town.
In a diner, she is confronted by Watts, a cult member, who attempts to persuade her to return, but she refuses. Martha calls her sister Lucy, who picks her up and takes her to the vacation lake house in Connecticut that she shares with her husband, a successful and wealthy architect named Ted.
While staying with Lucy and Ted at the lake house, Martha begins exhibiting strange behavior: swimming in a public lake naked, sleeping all the time, not eating, and arguing with her sister and brother-in-law about how to live, specifically arguing over the need for career and possessions. Lucy reveals she abandoned Martha and is now attempting to get her back into her life, while she and Ted are also trying to have their own child.
Elizabeth has achieved so much more.
Ms. Olsen gained worldwide recognition for her portrayal of Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch in the Marvel Cinematic Universe media franchise, appearing in the superhero films Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019), as well as the miniseries WandaVision (2021).
Her performance in WandaVision garnered her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Outside of her work as Scarlet Witch, she continued starring in films, including the 2014 monster film Godzilla, the 2017 mystery film Wind River, and the 2017 dramedy Ingrid Goes West.
She executive produced and starred in the drama series Sorry for Your Loss (2018–2019), earning a Critics’ Choice Television Award nomination for her role as a widow.
Do you see what we man by her bio and resume. It is quite accomplished and extensive.
If she looks familiar, she is the younger sister of twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who became television and film actresses as children.
Broadening her life experiences, Elizabeth attended New York University (NYU)’s Tisch School of the Arts, during which she took classes at Atlantic Theater Company and spent a semester at the Moscow Art Theatre School in Russia.
In terms of religion, she has been an atheist since the age of 13 because she believed that “religion should be about community and having a place to go in prayer, not something that should determine women’s freedoms.”
To some degree, we see where she received a foundation for her role.
Saying that we are impressed with Elizabeth is an understatement.
She has greatly fascinated us with her range and intensity. She surprised us and that is not often done.
She may not like us saying so, but she is incredibly attractive in a deeper sort of way.
Now that she is fully on our radar, while we are not into the mind numbing action and super hero films, which we find to be very predictable and formulaic, we will be watching for her films where she slices the emotional cake with a sharp knife.
If anyone can do that, she can.
Once again, if she takes us along for the ride, we’ll sit on the passenger side, hand on the door handle, extremely but cautiously excited, our mind on red alert.
Making sure the door is closed, but unlocked.
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