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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 414936" data-attributes="member: 8">POSSESSION (1981)[ATTACH=full]55038[/ATTACH]Now this is what I call a fun Christmas movie for the whole family.Filmed in 1980 by Andrzej Zulawski, two years after David Cronenberg&#039;s &quot;dievorce&quot; film The Brood, and starring a European cast, Possession takes on-screen extremity to the next level. And then some.Not the story or imagery, the horror doesn&#039;t look disproportionately gruesome, it&#039;s what they made these actors do&nbsp; that makes this film unique.I wouldn&#039;t even call it acting, or over-acting or great acting, it needs a verb that hasn&#039;t been invented yet, and apparently this was not without consequences for the two leads (Heinz Bennent is terrific as the lover who gets involved).It doesn&#039;t show how the characters were before the story begins, it starts with a breakup seemingly caused by the wife&#039;s internal crisis. Perhaps it represents a moment in real-time - the historical significance of place and time, and the director&#039;s troubled state of mind courtesy of his own divorce - and what came before simply isn&#039;t relevant.Sam Neill plays the husband who happens to be a spy (foreshadowing Reilly ?) but that job also&nbsp;&nbsp; ends at the very beginning, leaving the next mission for his surrogate.That last part returns in the final act although I have no idea how to connect it.If David Lynch and David Cronenberg and Lars von Trier and Gaspar Noé all fathered the same baby, it would be Possession. It&#039;s the end of everything!Spanish import DVD without subtitles and sometimes I struggled with the non-native English dialogue, but I&#039;m so glad I&#039;ve finally watched it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 414936, member: 8"] POSSESSION (1981) [ATTACH type="full"]55038[/ATTACH] Now this is what I call a fun Christmas movie for the whole family. Filmed in 1980 by Andrzej Zulawski, two years after David Cronenberg's "dievorce" film [I]The Brood[/I], and starring a European cast, [I]Possession[/I] takes on-screen extremity to the next level. And then some. Not the story or imagery, the horror doesn't look disproportionately gruesome, it's what they made these actors [I]do[/I] that makes this film unique. I wouldn't even call it acting, or over-acting or great acting, it needs a verb that hasn't been invented yet, and apparently this was not without consequences for the two leads (Heinz Bennent is terrific as the lover who gets involved). It doesn't show how the characters were before the story begins, it starts with a breakup seemingly caused by the wife's internal crisis. Perhaps it represents a moment in real-time - the historical significance of place and time, and the director's troubled state of mind courtesy of his own divorce - and what came before simply isn't relevant. Sam Neill plays the husband who happens to be a spy (foreshadowing [I]Reilly[/I] ?) but that job [I]also[/I] ends at the very beginning, leaving the next mission for his surrogate. That last part returns in the final act although I have no idea how to connect it. If David Lynch and David Cronenberg and Lars von Trier and Gaspar Noé all fathered the same baby, it would be [I]Possession[/I]. It's the end of everything! Spanish import DVD without subtitles and sometimes I struggled with the non-native English dialogue, but I'm so glad I've finally watched it. [/QUOTE]

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