Possession
Directed by Andrzej Żuławski
Banned upon its original release in 1981, Andrzej Żuławski’s stunning nightmare of a marriage unraveling is an experience unlike any other. Professional spy Mark returns to his West Berlin home to find his wife Anna insistent on a divorce. As Anna’s frenzied behavior becomes ever more alarming, Mark discovers a truth far more sinister than his wildest suspicions. With its pulsating score, visceral imagery, and some of the most haunting performances ever captured on screen, Possession is cinematic delirium at its most intoxicating.
This stunning nightmare of a marriage unraveling is a cinematic experience unlike any other.
Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill
Member Reviews
I loved this movie! I would characterize myself as a 60 year old who is scared of marriage, because that makes total sense. I personally connect with this movie as I am a housewife who stands on chairs and screams at rats, to me thats raw emotion, second only to my love of ad hominem attacks on other people based solely on their movie ratings! What I personally don’t love are cliche lighting choices, overwrought camera work, and those ridiculous scenes where people freak out in the comments section over having watched one movie they didn’t like. You know, the ones where you are victim to loud scenes inflicting emotion upon you to mask terribly infantile tantrums about movie opinions? Those! I LOVE chewing through a comments section to dissect deeper meaning but some just seem just loud, bad, and surface level. The part in the movie where the lady was flailing around for 5 minutes and acting weird was so scary, especially 40 years ago, which makes so much sense. In the 80s I was TERRIFIED of weird people, but of course since then we’ve all had a loving change of heart and embrace them fully now!
The 5 star reviews are from the 60 year olds who are scared of marrige. Theres no raw emotions or deep subtext, its just 2 people at emotional wits end dramatized to an extreme. The people who connect with the movie are housewives who stand on chairs and scream at rats, to them thats raw emotion. Movie is nothing but yelling, bad acting, and TERRIBLE cinematography. There are NO instances of unique lighting, odd angles, or any use of camera work to entice horror, its all just straight on shots or close ups. Anyone commending this movie is wild. No good acting. No good cinematography. No good plot. Every review for this movie is: "well it was really good but I didnt know what was going on". That just means you were victim to loud scenes inflicting emotion upon you to mask terrible storytelling and acting. I LOVE chewing through an artists piece to dissect deeper meaning but this movie is just loud, bad, and surface level. Also the scene where she flails around for 5 minutes is not a masterpiece performance expressing emotion, its just some lady told to act weird and people in the 80s were TERRIFIED of weird people.
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good moobie
One of those movies you don’t first comprehend on the surface but feels so real. A break up movie that hey, uses allegory and metaphor, oh no! If leaving a relationship has never left you feeling monstrous, a wreck, a desperate shell nearly devoid of the person you thought you were… maybe skip it for now? Soon enough you’ll relate all too well.