Trust (1990): A PrecíS, A Review

One will say that it's indeed an odd movie to watch at first. Or maybe that's just me, and I not being used to watching such intricate dark romantics. But it's sure to say that the title very rightly justfies the whole movie.

The plot revolves around mainly two people, destructive in nature and the trust between them.

Spoiler Alert! Ahead.

Marriah is a 17 year old high school student who is definitely of misfit nature, the kinds who doesn't really get along. She is being portrayed as of very naïve in nature. She clearly seems to be believing that her boyfriend is her true love who will eventually marry her and they will have babies and they will live happily ever after. Obviously that isn't the case. Being the brat she is, she gets in an argument with her dad and eventually slaps him. Not knowing that her father suffered from heart problems, he passed away in a state of shock. In a fit of anger her mother disowns her. Let me tell you, at this point she is already pregnant with her boyfriend's baby and he had already given up about her or the baby.

This is the point where our Matthew comes into scene. He is an MIT graduate and seems to have had a police record and some charges on him. He is shown as an intellect as opposed to Marriah, as someone who disbelieves in television, who reads a lot and has a strong morals. Perhaps it's his high morals which inadvertently leds him to either quit his job or get fired quickly. Now, at this point it is important to discuss his role with his dad. He is still dependant on his dad and his dad is clearly disappointed in him and always yells at him.

Now, here's where Matthew and Marriah meets. Unable to find a place to stay at any of her friends house, she is provided for the same by Matthew. Later next day his dad finds out that some girl is staying at their house and asks her to leave immediately. After getting in an argument with Matthew again both—Marriah and Matthew—leaves house. They finally end up staying together at Marriah's house. They both develop a relationship. Clearly, they both fell in love, or an admiration and respect, as put by Matthew.

Things goes by in this way between them. Both takes up jobs in hopes of getting married, having the baby and living lives together. However, the relationship between him and of Marriah's mother—Jean—is clearly not going very well. She distrusts Matthew and wants to keep her daughter with herself only and expected her [Marriah] to take care of her. Hence, she frames him by by making it seem like he's sleeping with Peg, Marriah's sister who also lives with them, to Marriah.

Marriah then drops the plan of her and Matthew and aborts her pregnancy. The mobie ends where Matthew is sitting after pulling the pin of a hand grenade—which his father had brought in from Korean war, and he kept it with himself always for in cases like this—in the factory where he works. Surprisingly, it didn't explode the way it was supposed to. Everyone evacuates the factory. When Marriah comes to the factory after knowing this, she gets in inspite of everyone's resistance. They throw the grenade and lay on the ground. It eventually explodes but no one's hurt.

The last scene shows the police taking away Matthew and Marriah standing there in her spectales.

This is an elegant movie which beautifully portrays the meaning of trust and how to have it in one. It's unlike many romance movies that we come across, but in its monotonous tone it rightly conveys the human emotion of trust. The performance give by Adrienne Shelly as Marriah is different from clichés in her ability to portray the character not as how society perceives people like Marriah but how Marriah herself feels and thinks about people around her. Matin Donovan and others also delivers a true to life performance. All in all this is a great movie to watch, to understand 'trust' and to get a perspective from the Marriahs.