It comes down to one thing.
The grenade.
"But, Daniel, you're stupid! There's no trust with the hand grenade! They don't know if it's going to go off or not and the Matt dude is such a psycho!"
But oh, that's the point, my dear Watson!
The end of the movie has zero trust associated whatsoever and that's the point. You can trust whoever you want however much you want to but in reality, it means nothing. Maria trusts her mother, but clearly her mother is also a psychopath who deserves none. Why would she come back to that house? Because he trusts her. Her mother also probably had trust in the fact that Maria wouldn't accidentially kill her father (or, at least, that's how she explains it.) But what happened?
You know what happened.
Your post brought up an entirely valid point...trust isn't real. Maria felt that she could trust her mother, when truly her mother was lying to her all of the time. The hand grenade -- you couldn't trust it because no one was certain if it was going to go off or not. This similarly relates to The Stranger because Meursualt feels that everything is meaningless because death is the only certainty. Trust is meaningless, because it doesn't really exist.
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