"Possession" received a mix of well-founded and sincere praise from critics, as well as well-documented and sincere criticism. The former, represented by "Premier" magazine, gave the film a good evaluation, on the grounds that director Neil LaBute handled the two narrative clues of the past and the present very skillfully, making the two clues blend very naturally, which is also the reason. It is the crux of the film, and it is hard work if you can handle it well; the latter directly pointed out that Rabout brought the cold and weird style of directing an independent film into the film, and the audience can feel that the film is in order not to fall. Into the clichés of romance films, I have been deliberately avoiding sensational elements, but this kind of treatment inevitably makes people feel that the development of the relationship between the two protagonists is too jumpy
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2022-03-18 08:01
Extended Reading
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Maude: [they are standing on rocks in a river looking at a waterfall that Maude recalls in one of Christabell's poems that describes a cave behind the waterfall. Upon sharing that with Roland, he immediately starts taking his clothes off] I know this is an awfully repressed sort of English thing to say, but what the hell are you doing?
Roland Michell: How else are we going to find out if there's a cave?
[Dives into the water]
Maude: [smiling, and speaking to no one] We could ask someone.
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Roland Michell: There's no such thing as poets anymore.