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Menahem Lang, an actor with an extraordinary singing voice, returns to Bnei Brak, the city in Israel where he grew up and a center of ultra-orthodox Judaism. Now in his 30s, Lang left the city at 20, following years of rape and sexual abuse by elder, devout family men in the community. Yet, Lang was far from being an isolated case: his conversations with other abused young men document a cycle of sexual predators and tormented lives.
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Exceptionally, I won't be giving this film a numerical ranking as I don't feel comfortable quantifying this man's pain. Because, essentially that's what _M_ is: The story of one man's pain and how he comes to terms with it. M is Menahem who, when he was the Jewish version of a choir boy in the ultra religious Israeli town of Bnei Brak, was raped repeatedly by different Rabbis and members of his yeshiva. While I personally would've appreciated seeing this film attempt to give an overall snapshot of how prevalent this is (the film gives the impression that it is frighteningly wide-spread) and what is being done to address this crisis (the film gives only a few pithy sentences of reassurance at the end), I'm obviously happy that the documentary helped Menahem confront and even slay several of his demons.