![]() ![]() ![]() So, we have to examine the movie with the help of some logic regarding all three stages. That being said, the movie seems to have three levels: The metaphors represent fractions of each individual character, but they fall apart into themselves, if a metaphor is built upon another metaphor. They build up the foundation and a starting point, so we can be able to decipher various stages of the film. The glimpses that the spectator receives are open to interpretation, but it’s crucial to follow the arguments based in reality, to really comprehend the film. Unfortunately, Mark is an unreliable narrator of the story, because his feelings are standing in the way of the real events, so the audience has to witness abstract thoughts, confusing elements and visual metaphors, as a sum up of this painful ordeal. His ego is hurt more so than Anna’s, so the audience don’t get the full account of her side of the story. The whole movie takes place from Mark’s point of view. She lied to them both a third lover is pushed into the equation and he is the one who took control of her life. In his painful state he tries to find out, who this mysterious new lover is and why she is leaving him, but the truth is even more painful. After a longer absence, MARK (Sam Neill) returns to his wife ANNA (Isabelle Adjani) to West-Berlin, only to find out that she demands a divorce. The story, setting and execution are unique, but at the same time the narrative is unbelievably confusing, like the surreal movies of David Lynch. ![]() When they finally got the opportunity to see it, it instantly became a cult film and is hailed as a masterpiece. The movie was chopped down from 124 minutes to miserably 78 minutes and was disregarded as a video nasty at the time it premiered, so the targeted audience didn’t have the chance to see it until the DVD release in 2009. But when I returned to Poland I saw exactly what the guy in Possession sees when he opens the door to his flat, which is an abandoned child in an empty flat and a woman who is doing something somewhere else.’ -Andrzej Zulawski I had two or three interesting proposals to make really big European films. After making That Most Important Thing in France, I went back to Poland to get my family (which at the time was my wife and my kid) and bring them to France. ‘Possession was born of a totally private experience. In this time, he translated all his emotional pain, turmoil and confusion he experienced to a screenplay that eventually became the movie POSSESSION. The director ANDRZEJ ZULAWSKI ( The third part of the night, 1971) gathered that knowledge by the most painful way he could imagine – the downfall of his own marriage. It happens, yes, but is that the common rule? No. Thinking that the person who is splitting the entity apart is having a blast by doing it, only because it already secured the successor and doesn’t have to worry about anything, is a false statement. Most people think that relationship break ups affect only the person who is left behind. ![]()
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