The Most Insane Break-Up Film Ever Made - Possession | Shocking Cinema

[@TheKinoCorner]

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[@kevinvassago]

I have this really hot take about hentai! I personally believe that octopuses are a lesser evolved alien species either put on this planet by accident from an astroid containing alien single cell organisms that collided with earth, or just put here on purpose to study their evolution in our planet's environment. I believe this due to Octopus DNA genome being 6 times larger than humans, their separately evolved superior intelligence, and their unknown or "alien" DNA. My take is that somewhere deep in our subconscious, we know that this species is essentially an alien to our planet, and since fethishes can be either nature or nurture, it's just a fetish on a deep subconscious level to either see someone get fvcked by, or personally fvck an alien species. It's essentially just an alien sex fetish. Cuz I cannot possobly comprehend any other conclusion as to why someone would want to see Octopuse on human sex, even in the fetish realm, it's an anomaly. Every other fetish has a reason behind it, this one does not, and there's a reason for everything.

[@okawesome2746]

When an auteur film maker gets divorced you know you're gonna get something you haven't seen before. And maybe never wanted to.

[@leeannasloan2292]

Or knew you wanted to??

[@stevepalpatine2828]

In this case it's more like an Autist. Fucking tentacle monsters...

[@randomnerd3402]

Temple Of Doom is another example. The cynical tone of the movie is because Lucas went through a rough divorce before and during the making of the film.

[@aleksandarspasov6815]

I laughed hard here. Good one! So true!

[@mOOntes14]

if David Linch gets divorced that shits gonna be wild

[@JazziG59]

The actress in this movie is the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. She looks like a painting.

[@gargos25]

To me, young Isabelle Adjani looks as what one would imagine when someone says "a pretty French woman".

[@4ever9zxyme]

She reminds me A mix between phoebe cates and Jennifer Connelly .

[@kosmosyche]

Reminds me of young Monica Bellucci. She and Adjani are kinda the same type of beauty, they look a bit like sisters even, in my opinion.

[@Etanbeetan]

Mid

[@drtg101we7]

Wow, like a painting? Canvas and all?

[@skramamme685]

Also both Sam Neil and Adjani would later state that the making of Possession was incredibly difficult on them, both physically and psychologically, which I guess shows just how grueling that type of acting is for the performers. “Having to totally commit her mind and body to the lead role of Anna, Adjani would later comment that it took her several years to recover from the torment of the performance.” Sam Neill noted, “I call it the most extreme film I’ve ever made, in every possible respect, and he asked of us things I wouldn’t and couldn’t go to now. And I think I only just escaped that film with my sanity barely intact”.

[@gjh9299]

no doubt

[@rumck]

so cringe, wow she had to move weird and scream a bit, tough

[@skramamme685]

@@rumck it's a direct quote...all he said was it was trying emotionally for them IDGAF about the movie myself, but I find the toll it took interesting. I guess you can roll around and scream and not find it exhausting, but I suspect days upon days upon days of doing so would tax anyone `\u/`

[@StephanieHickey-v5e]

Yes, she is always on the list of actors who were damaged irreprarily during the making of the film. Just to add, Colin Ferrel in The Kings Speech started to stutter after he made The Kings Speech, it affected him so much, he still sometimes stutters. As does the main character of a Clockwork Orange, when they pried his eyes open, the metal scratched his cornea and it was unable to be healed or corrected.

[@mlgesus8362]

Bit cringe innit

[@johnpickens7626]

Adjani likened this film to "emotional pornography". According to Zulawski, she wasn't wrong. Perhaps it's because I am a child of divorce, but this is my favorite horror movie of all time and I appreciate the background you included on Zulawski. Solid watch, thanks.

[@Juanhernandez-zx7kt]

It found it disturbing in the sense that it reminded me too much of my dysfunctional family with my parents arguing about money and my dad’s drinking problems. It was nothing but screaming matches and broken furniture. It only ended with my dad leaving the country back to Mexico and becoming estranged with my mother and left me wondering how I’m not emotionally affected from this.

[@jediflip2515]

You are emotionally affected. We are all emotionally affected by our parents as they raise us through childhood.

[@eldritchbidoof]

@@joogullae3456 Dipshit

[@Juanhernandez-zx7kt]

@@joogullae3456 Si, gabacho.

[@kikithepupper6774]

…Juan, you and I have very similar childhood experience, my dad was also alcoholic and they fought tooth and nail over everything, especially money.. I give you a hug

[@kikithepupper6774]

@@joogullae3456 입 다물어라 이 Koreaboo sekkiya

[@HorrorCritical]

Possession(1981) is one of the most scariest movies that I’ve ever seen in awhile. Probably one of the best horror movies of all time

[@excitingedward]

YOOO WHERE THE FUCK IS IT AVAILABLE I CANT FIND IT

[@na-vn5qy]

oh man, nothing is more scarier than that! it would take longer than i care to spend making fun of the 'ever seen in awhile' part, so.

[@Valkalium]

Sure, scary. But how is it the best at anything? I felt the movie was a pure exercise in style without much merit... someone asking what would happen if a movie was equal parts Lynch, Cronenberg, and Kafka; well what happens is a tedious mess in my opinion.

@@Valkalium style contains many more things than just simple aesthethics

[@Valkalium]

@ sure does… in a good movie. In my opinion Possession is an overrated mess that does boil down to mostly just empty style. Anything can be explained as intentional as in this video; acting is not bad but follows Polish norms at the time, the camera work is not plain bad but characteristic of the director, the themes are not mumbo jumbo but covert criticisms. Even simple continuity errors are infallible - “it’s just a subtle mark of the unreliable narrator”! All that may be. I still find it too tedious and prolonged to get through a second viewing and so inconsistent and unbalanced the main feeling left after watching is that of frustration and tiredness. The movie may take itself too seriously, but what makes it feel pretentious as all hell is actually the blind cult following.

[@ece8443]

Considering that this is the kind of script that most stars, even the braver and bolder ones, pay people good money to keep as far away from them as possible, I can't say what attracted Adjani to the role but something about it clearly clicked, as she throws herself into it with the kind of intensity most could never dream of mustering.

[@alexarias5717]

It's worth saying that she actually regrets taking on the role. She said it's the kind of role only a young person would accept. She also said the director treated her poorly to get better performances from her

[@BGatts666]

She wasn't Adjani before doing this movie, just an upcoming actress, she maybe regrets it but it helped her becoming a star, so happy end..

[@gjh9299]

they say, she was hard to work with

[@jackfleet]

you stole this paragraph from Ebert's review ahaha

[@swifty1147]

I watched this film really, really young, and the only interpretation I really had was this idea that you can still love someone, but there's so much discord and anger and fighting in the relationship that it's too hard loving them, but you're reluctant to let them go, and maybe fantasize about what you could change about them to make them perfect to fix the relationship. In the movie the 'perfect' version of their lover comes into existence. I don't know if that's even right, but how I always saw it. Later I found out Adjani is like the French Meryl Streep, which is amusing because Streep would never have had the balls to make something like this.

[@adelinewurzer4533]

You described my parent's relationship

[@dhsf5937]

I think that both were in love with being,but mainly with the idea of each other. The movie is what happens when you mistake obssession for love and create a fantasy in your head about someone that is not real,and don't know when to say goodbye to a relationship.

[@suzybearheart530]

The scene with the jam is so disturbing - I have a son, and it just horrifies me to think of him ever being neglected like that. It's a brilliant scene and I hate it. If that makes any sense.

[@ckotcher1]

What happens with the Jam?

[@BloodSweatandFears]

The fact that the scene can evoke such a powerful emotion, shows how great of a scene it is!

[@Irene-sm7ih]

@@ckotcher1 Nothing inherently scary, the main character goes back home after a weeks long drunk breakdown to find his son fervently eating after having been left alone for a long time

[@ckotcher1]

@@Irene-sm7ih ohh I remember now. Yeah to me that was just a kid covered in jam lol. I get that the mother was losing it but my parents found my brother and I covered in Peanut Butter…among other things 😑. 💩 Long story lol. My brother was only 5 at the time and I was three but he was nasty. Now THAT could have been in a horror movie lol.

[@Irene-sm7ih]

@@ckotcher1 holy shit lol

[@huzistiglitz5122]

I actually got freaked out when she broke the fourth wall. Such a transcendental experience

[@instantchildbirth2746]

wasn't she talking to Heinrich?

[@Can_Kanal]

As a person who believes that divorce between couples is something WAY subversive and depressive, and how nowadays divorce is like something almost every couple does like a pretty normal thing, I think this movie was very neat when it came down to its message.

[@adelinewurzer4533]

Getting a divorce would actually destroy me

[@Can_Kanal]

@@adelinewurzer4533 same

[@pillbugm8914]

It's all about perspective really. Some people don't view marriage as highly as you do or they're just more individualistic people. It's not wrong that people exist differently than you.

[@clonetrooper1998]

the first time i ever fell in love with a person was with my ex. the relationship ended because he went into adderrall psychosis and lost grip of reality to a point where i couldnt even let him catch sight of me anymore. i dont know how i could describe my feelings in words, but watching this film brought something out of me that felt like a relatable representation on a surreal level

[@eddiethetruhead]

This film really freaked me out when I saw it randomly on a late night movie channel bout 20 years ago. I thought Isabelle Adjani was so beautiful, regardless of how disturbingly possessed her character was. I’ve only seen it once but the memory of it has scarred my mind permanently.

[@truthfilter]

I thought the same too even in the subway scene scene where she's being sick and blood is coming out of her I can't help but notice how gorgeous looking she is even in that situation

[@adelinewurzer4533]

She's gorgeous

[@NASkeywest]

I just realized the band “Massive attack.” Has a music video with Rosemund Pike, called “Voodoo, in my blood.” That is paying homage to “The Possession.” It has the actress in a subway doing the exact same possession/movements.

[@gardenofwords914]

10:05 the part where she says "i feel nothing for no one" and the audio kind of distorts is an amazing touch/accident (i doubt they intended for it but for me it worked either way) to help with that feeling of breaking down

[@soda7998]

It sounds like a synthesization (is that a word?) of her words, the sort of staggering feeling when you lose breath and become light headed as you lose consciousness.

[@PanicAtTheBen]

Normally I’d cringe at that polish acting in the middle. But your commitment and the length of the scene sold me. An audible laugh. Top marks.

[@marasmusine]

It's been a few decades since I saw the film, but the one scene that stuck in memory is the ballet school. The tension and the looks into the camera... so stressful!

[@nope5657]

I had heard about Possession for so long. I knew it was supposed to be weird, but all I had ever heard was that it was "disturbing" and "intense." I had no idea it was such a heightened, absurdist film. So when I FINALLY got to see it I was quite letdown. I found it shrill and drawn-out and annoying. But it stuck with me. I kept thinking about it. And I grew to really love it. Once you're on the film's wavelength, it's one HELL of a fascinating watch. It's like being sucked into a manic vortex of human emotion at it's most base.

[@stubowl1]

great comment. it really does linger in you mind.

[@GuineaPigEveryday]

I’m really glad you said that, I just finished the film and while it definitely feels disappointing in some sense I also appreciate the insanity and artistry going into the film. It’s very flawed in a way, but I’m glad I watched it, I do hate how critics sometimes act so snobbishly vague, like they could’ve at least said “this is absurdist batshit crazy experimental filmmaking, its not some masterful perfection”. I appreciate how flawed it is, and its definitely memorable. Just disappointing that the reputation of this film is so vague, because I feel a lot of ppl will be let down by what they get. I’m glad to enjoy a weird movie if I can at least be told as such, because it rlly is so experimentally insane with all the drawn-out screaming and talking that doesnt go anywhere and yet some ppl don’t want to admit that part of it? Part of enjoying a movie is also criticising it it, at least imo

[@hiddenpowers123]

I had a very similar response to the movie!

[@darrell3391]

I went down the disturbing movie road a couple years ago. There was Salo, two or three Japanese movies mostly about kidnap/torture, The Human Centipede and then A Serbian Film, that one broke me. I’d watch the others again if say a friend wanted to watch together but there is nothing that could convince me to watch A Serbian Film again. I had the same sort of experience in the 90’s that started with the Faces of Death videos, the internet was fairly new and I found some gore sites that published real horrible things. I honestly saw so much it changed me, made me a little more cynical about the world. All the daily horror that is very real and happening right now, maybe in the house right next to you.

[@pinkycat5947]

If you like those weird, taboo, disturbing and psychological movies about people's minds when something goes wrong, I recommend you Lars Von Trier's movies such as Breaking the waves; Nymphomaniac; Dancer in the dark.

[@darrell3391]

@@pinkycat5947 This was a thing I did a few years ago, not some general fondness for disturbing content. Like I said A Serbian Film broke me and I stay from such content now.

[@adelinewurzer4533]

A Serbian film is trash

[@adelinewurzer4533]

​@@pinkycat5947I love nymphomaniac

[@v47gaming59]

​@@adelinewurzer4533ewww

[@raventhemoth2642]

I always get excited about Possession videos, this definitely hit the mark perfectly! This movie genuinely haunts me but the more I learn about it the more intrigued i am

[@JKumaD]

When you imitated the subway scene in a pile of skittles for the sponsorship i subbed

[@xbbocrybb]

Possession is one of my favorite films of all-time. Andrzej Żuławski deserves so much more recognition than he receives. I’m planning to watch The Devil very soon. So excited! You did a great job, Kino! Also, you doing “the scene” got me. 🤣

[@rag513]

check out la femme publique!! great film

[@Samurai_Stoner]

Definitely one of the most effed up movies that still managed to keep a plot

[@fridakahlo4225]

This might be the most brilliant ad placement that I've ever seen. Whatever they've paid you for that performance, they should have double it.

[@soranaro]

Well said :)))

[@kianschmeer2574]

The cuts on his arm are actually still there and are shown more as partially healed scrapes, you can see them on his left arm

[@PatrickWDunne]

Isabelle Adjani is simply amazing in this role

[@roddmatsui3554]

Ah, yes. I remember the, uh, the, uh, the Octopus thing as being really interesting. That’s a Carlo Rambaldi mechanical creation. He built some really incredible puppet effects for many films. Quite often his work is the best crafted thing in the films he worked on.

[@georgekosko5124]

Practical effects, when done right, are always a treat in films.

[@AdAstra78]

Claiming that Adjani was essentially blacklisted is a little misleading/hyperbolic. There were some known 'difficulties' amongst her and the other two leading ladies in The Brontë Sisters, but beyond that...(?)

[@JackKapral]

Guy from Poland here. The reality of communism here was tragic (as well as in other places, tbh), but was also quite surreal. Really. There were lot of "catches 22" in our reality back then. And this may have produced that very unique style, with over-the-top expressive performance. You may find this also in Jodorowsky, but in a different way. And that grim polish reality affected the way movies were made. Check "Seksmisja", one of the most unique polish sci fi comedies about a society in which men are all but extinct. Or anything really by polish director Piotr Szulkin, with "O-bi, O-ba: Koniec cywilizacji" (O-bi O-ba: The end of civilization) being the prime example. Check them out, You won't regret it.

[@markearnestfromreno613]

A great take on the film, with a lot of behind the scenes details I didn’t know. And your ‘redo’ of the subway scene is priceless. 😳😁👍🏼

[@inhabitantofgotoisland]

Frankly, I've considered "Possession" to be my favourite film of all time for a few years and it still remains my fav along with Hideaki Anno's "The End of Evangelion". It's a film that introduced my into Żuławski's dark, twisted and fascinating world which I haven't left since. There wasn't, isn;t and will never be another auteur with a mind like his. I'd say that despite the dark and depressing tone of his films, almost all of them have that ray of hope at the very end of the story (like the young nun in "The Devil"). Żuławski wasn't afraid to show the evil within mankind but presenting it on-screen actually resulted in something opposite, his films feels incredibly human. P.S. That bit about girls with Anna profile pics made me chuckle a little bit because it's way too real for me. I used to know one in the past and it surely was a scarring experience.

[@nonjaninja4904]

Isabelle Adjani was a qt. She was really good in Nosferatu as well.

[@alaindubeau3243]

What a remarkable film. I don't think I've seen or ever will see anything like Adjani's performance in any other film. The camera work is absolutely stellar.

[@kassykreutzer6972]

I'd love to be an actor with this kind of director, they are healing and so are you. acting out all these beautiful disturbing moments and touching others a way they didn't know they could ❤❤

[@baldmitzvah]

Isabelle Adjani went to the Shelley Duvall school of having big eyes and screaming, artistically

[@shahani6037]

I am 38 years old now.... I saw this film in my early 20s.... 😆 I really actually enjoyed the philosophy behind it

[@michaelroque2662]

The Untamed or as it’s known in Spanish: La Región Salvaje. Is a Mexican sci-fi horror that is basically tentacle hentai. It’s about a sexual frustrated wife and mother of two who is drugged and is introduced to a tentacle alien that brings her to orgasm. Then she spends the rest of the movie continuing to visit it. As her cheating husband has an affair with her brother. Very weird movie and uncomfortable to watch ( for me anyway)

[@StanleyKubick1]

Yeah I wouldn't share that, bud

[@AGRcactus]

I can fix her

[@keithgayler8374]

There is another live action horror film with a hyper sexual octopus-like creature (men and women). It's a Mexican film titled The Untamed. It is worth checking out.

[@HighStrangeDrifter]

Came here to mention “The Untamed”(2016)…if you guys need me, I’ll be out in the barn.

[@dilansmithee503]

We now know that someone on the Disney+ promotional team is a fan of KC, and memed him into releasing the video.

[@HenryCovertsDeepImages]

POSSESSION has been in my all-time favorite films for several years and I'm pretty sure it will remain there indefinitely. Seen several of Zulawski's films. So far, the one I love the most is ON THE SILVER GLOBE.

[@Kerri36982]

Love Possession and the setting of Berlin at the time is a great metaphor for Mark's duality. Andrej Zulawski, Sam Neill (in only his second major movie after The Final Conflict) and Isabella Adjani are awesome.

[@merlinho0t]

The actress is what really made the film memorable to me, her performance is just something else. Horrific, emotional, beautiful, I wouldn’t even know how to describe it. Both were great but she just really stuck in my mind.

[@joesmith201212]

I always felt like the movie reveals the truth of all relationship which is they always rest and ride on a knifes edge, if you tilt one way to the right or one way to the left the relationship fails... So you have to ride this little tight rope path to make it work every day

[@leilanidrennan1767]

Uh, no that sounds like a toxic/abusive relationship lmao. Strong relationships don't have the fear of not being able to work out, because there's trust and unconditional love

[@joesmith201212]

@@leilanidrennan1767 haha yeah I used to believe that and then I grew up and became an adult

[@viridianloom]

Lol I relate too much to that opening skit. I feel like I'm always having to explain shit I'm watching.

[@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers]

This film reminded me of Pink Floyd's film 'The Wall'. Both films are hallucinatory and have themes of madness and isolation, symbolised by an endless wall which traps the main characters. There's also a scene where [SPOILERS] the main character undergoes a violent body horror transformation and becomes an evildoppelganger of himself.

[@luna-handpan]

Adding: Rembaldi did the machanics of the Alienhead - but it was not designed by him, but by HR. Giger ;)

[@antaresvasto7343]

I need to see all of these movies! I'm so glad I found your channel. I'm already familiar with a lot of the movies you've covered and surprised at how much there is still left to uncover...! 😁😁

[@sdgundum990]

After I watched this movie the first time, I really couldn't decide if I hated it or not. Therefore, I determined it must be a work of pure genius.

[@FractalKrystian]

The movie was appreciated in Poland. I watched it as kid on national tv in late 80s. At that time only important movies were on.

[@getajob3435]

Possession is not your average horror movie. Its very deep and intriguing has fine details and plays with human emotions and dilemma

[@rmamn2458]

Finally, kino is back with another kino video!

[@Fuzhou]

That intro was funny as shit.

[@Nobody-nv6ds]

Greetings from Poland! I'm very grateful for the depth of your research.

[@loganwelty7094]

This video helps me understand and appreciate this film so much more than before. What a masterpiece of (horror) cinema.

[@mrtunapie6653]

Possession is one of those films you never forget after watching. Just be sure to watch the un-rated version.

[@ImmaculateOtter]

Why not watch the rated version (I haven't seen either)?

[@Sophie-nz9fz]

one of my favorite films and my favorite horror movie of all time, truly a masterpiece.

[@ogami1972]

That screaming at the beginning is sampled in a dance song from 1988 that rocked the industrial night clubs of Texas. R.O.E. by Scarecrow. I danced my little ass off to that song back then, never knowing where the sample came from. Was mind-bending to suddenly hear it.

[@Vaporvice84]

Was watching this in a theater the other night with no idea what I was in for. I knew about the "birth" scene in hearsay, and when she was looking up at the Jesus statue, I knew what was coming next, and I had to tap out. This video definitely gives me a better understanding (and appreciation) of the acting styles. Unfortunately, seeing it with a crowd may not have been the best way for a first time.

[@cruzcruz5079]

As someone going through a divorce I know exactly what this movie was going for and it nailed it.

[@50-YearOldMan]

So glad people are still talking about this movie! Definitely one of my faves

[@georgeolguin5050]

Loving the boldness of the ad read. Love you for that

[@cathyannferreira8694]

You may already be aware of this but if not, I highly recommend a 2016 movie by a Mexican director, Amat Escalante, entitled Untamed (La Region Salvaje.) The themes are very similar and it is an homage to Zulawski. Of particular interest is the appearance of a fine Mexican actor, Enoc Leano, in a small role late in the film starting at the time stamp 1:19.

[@ThatJohnKillion1970]

This was shown once on TCM late at night, VERY late at night.

[@dad_jokes_4ever226]

7:47: I love Iggy Pop , always finding new ways to express his art

[@KingaKucyk]

Though I'm from Poland, I have never heard about that crazy-exxagerated-acting technique. I thought it's for the film's... aesthetics? Purpose? Holly hell idk how to call it LOL It's really interesting, gonna look into it. I really need to watch the whole movie, as the last time I didn't have an opportunity to... Thank U! 🔥

[@Luxesharee]

That sponsorship possession moment was top tier

[@StankyWanky420]

One of my all time favorite movies! Found it fr free online on some sketchy website when I was in high school in 2015 while scrolling tumblr lmao so good

[@Jephthah_1990]

Somehow I ended watching this film back in 2013, a couple of month after an extremely painful breakup. I understood everything emotionally wise; and it was under those conditions that I could ever watch a film like this, alone.

[@Springbok295]

Adjani admitted the stress of performing that role broke her. I take my hat off to her and any actress willing to go that far in making a film. Most present-day actresses are too afraid and desire only to make "postcard" shlock.

[@alexarias5717]

You actually don't have to bring other women down to raise another woman up. Stop with the sexism.

[@Springbok295]

@@alexarias5717 Take your wokeness elsewhere. It’s not contributing anything to the conversation.

[@alexarias5717]

@Springbok295 we both have this app downloaded on our phones so you're just going to have to deal with my "wokeness". And you're the one that isn't contributing anything. Putting down other women isn't a compliment to Adjani, it's a backhanded insult. Fact is, most directors can't get away with half the shit they pulled off in the 70s and 80s and though the art might not be of the same pedigree, at least people's minds aren't being BROKEN for the sake of art or entertainment or worse

[@Springbok295]

@@alexarias5717 No I'll just mute you.

[@alexarias5717]

@@Springbok295 Ok awesome go do that :)

[@Daemonarch2k6]

Isabelle Adjani is clearly one of the world's most beautiful woman...

[@mygrandpasayshesd.b.cooper6200]

The cinematography is amazing. Way ahead of its time.

[@Kalleesto]

I've always loved Possession and think it's a masterpiece. It was the first body horror movie I'd ever seen. I've always had to defend myself for liking it though ... T_T

[@Blady99]

Isabelle Adjani was so beautiful

[@geckoplayz747]

Possession is one of kind film Isabella Adjani and Sam Niell gave a performance of life time Andrezji zulawski is one of the most underrated Directors of all time and I’m glad people are finally finding his films cause they are a hidden gem.

[@sojourndestination3031]

Sam Niell is the same actor who played Dr. Allen Grant from Jurassic Park, or am I confusing him for another actor.

[@geckoplayz747]

@@sojourndestination3031 Yes and he was Great 😁

[@dr.tamaraworley6174]

@Sojourn Destination Yes, Neil is luciferian,.... like most successful actors, for u must be of the 9th circle luciferian satanic bloodline families to act as the main actor or actress. 👹👹👹

[@aleksandra797]

Andrzej not Andrezji lol

[@Assault_Butter_Knife]

Now that you've joked about being an anime youtuber: Do you have a favorite(s) among animated films? I would really be interested in seeing a discussion on your favorite pieces like you did with film, if there are any

[@justdoingmything]

This film was so interesting and fun to watch (made me depressed for a hot minute) but I loved it in the end and I love your video! Thank you so much for making this :DDD

[@beanjm9773]

Best film out of what I call "nihilistic relationship trilogy " including Nicolas Roeg's Bad Timing and Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs

[@Cicutrri]

its a long way to chill for a while and reflect ourselfs on the world

[@GuineaPigEveryday]

Alright just have to say really informative brief summary of Zulawski and his filmmaking career before Possession, makes me super intrigued about his filmography. I also had only heard of Andrzej Wajda from Ashes and Diamonds, you explain the chronology really well (as well as really effective editing of stuff from those movies), especially for someone who has no idea who these ppl or their influence/fame are. And somehow you do this in just a few minutes. Keep up the great work.

[@logans6058]

You are a hidden gem my guy, really glad I found your content.

[@interdimensionalsteve8172]

Suuuch a weirdly captivating movie. Watched it randomly on a Sunday afternoon about a year back knowing nothing but Sam Neil and really, truly enjoyed it.

[@robynheavner4689]

Possession is a unique horror movie into madness on a different level.

[@destroyrebuild]

I think I enjoyed Isabelle's performance most. She was a striking beauty and an incredible actress. Almost hypnotic. I just watched the film and I've never seen anything like it. The director and the actors sure had a lot of trust in one another to make such intense scenes. Some of them border on being too silly or extreme because of the method they used, but it was surreal in a good way. I don't know if I'll ever watch it again, but I sure won't forget it and I recommend everyone see it at least once.

[@chrishiggins2588]

Saw this at the brattle while visiting Boston, had no idea what I was getting into really was shocked in all the best ways a film can

[@sarafrikinbeara]

11:21 I just found this channel and BOY AM I ELATED! That breakdown after the job offer was ... Chef's kiss. I am a super nerd for physical theatrics!

[@joebluby774]

I remember sewing the scars on marks arm in a later scene and giving props to continuity. WAY TO BE OBSERVING

[@31webseries]

I love how The Serbian Film description is basically just one long bleep 🤣

[@mrch6200]

Just watched this film and I'm now binge watching analyses on it. I decided not to skip the ad portion of the video, in case youtube keeps track of those things, and all I can say is LOL

[@56postoffice]

I thought this was a Dario Argento film, not Polish and never knew Sam Neill was also in it. On my "must watch" list.

[@thisrandomdude_]

I thought I knew an ok amount about this movie considering how confusing it is but no, there's so much more depth to it than I was at all aware of!! so bloody cool. thank you for making this video :>

[@NotCharAznable]

Yay someone talking about Possession 1981.

[@demonicsweaters]

Sam Neil has really taken some interesting roles over the years. I'll definitely check this one out.

[@VinylMigraine]

Remember for years couldn’t find this movie after seeing the ending on tcm many years back

[@Zegeebwah]

The 1st time I saw this movie I thought it was horrifying. The 2nd time I saw this movie I thought it was the most hilarious movie I'd ever seen 😂

[@itsPenguinBoy]

I actually think the setting in West Berlin, intentionally or not, marrs western capitalism as much as it does communism. For me it was about the experience of disfunction which can emerge in any system. I especially loved the way they used their bodies to interact with the entirity of every space they're in. It makes the role of architecture so much more tangible. I feel like I know what a concrete wall feels like when they smash something against it.

[@chernhwei]

Thanks for pronouncing Żuławski’s “ł” correctly!

[@jojo6028]

It's over the top, but still not as bad as 'Serbian film's which I took the DVD out in the yard and proudly broke it with a hammer 😁

[@FreeCryptoBro]

11:00 nailed it. Better than the original