Recently, I accidentally saw a movie clip from the early 1980s: the heroine got off the night-shift subway with a bag of milk in it, and in the dark and silent underground passage, she suddenly screamed and shouted like an evil spirit. Insane, the body is extremely twisted but reveals inexplicable desires and pleasures that seem to belong to sex. This kind of "performance" has been difficult to summarize into any of the methods, experiential, and alienation programs. It is confusing, shocking, and even as fascinating as the title of the film (Possession), Chinese translation of the film For "Possessed" (1982), the actress Isabel Adjani won many European film festivals, including Cannes, for which she won the best actress crown.
The initial choice to watch "The Enchanted" was indeed with a "Scopophilia" mentality as described by Freud, so the first half of the film would feel very "disappointed" - Dadi is talking about a middle-aged man In order to restore the failed marriage, he chose to resign, and began to send detectives to track his wife and question her lover who had a relationship with her.
Just when I couldn't help but want to double speed x fast forward, a terrifying scene came. I followed the detective's perspective and found that the heroine was hiding a bloodshot and sticky thing in an old building... Follow her lover From the perspective of her husband, I learned that the heroine would meet Doi, a monster with tentacles and a hideous face every day... From the perspective of my husband, I found that this monster would also complete self-evolution through the movement on board, and it became more and more human-shaped. In fact, the images of monsters that are constantly evolving into adults are actually not uncommon in sci-fi horror films. In the 1950s, there was "The Magic Flower", and in the 1980s, there was "The Shape") - but through crazy AI to complete the transformation from alien to human The evolution of sex is one of the highlights of "Possessed", it is the unreserved exposure of sex and the best possible rendering.
At the same time, "Possessed" is not just a pure horror film. If the ugly "monster" in the film is regarded as the psychological predicament and self-imagination of the hero, then this film can still be regarded as a Psychological experiment film. In this way, the terrifying images and violent and bloody scenes in the film can be regarded as the schizophrenia and psychological hallucinations of the male protagonist due to the particularity of his work (involving gangsters, the government) and the breakdown of his marriage relationship. The tentacles are like the alien life created in Ridley Scott's films - the alien's shape design metaphor, mixed with dark, powerful, mysterious and sexual components. In the end, the monster gradually transformed into the appearance of the male protagonist, but compared to the decadent, confused and cornered male protagonist, the "monster" as a "mirror" looks more handsome and personable - but all of this is the male protagonist The hallucination, when he was still awake, was shot dead by the police. In the previous shot, the hero incarnated by the "monster" jumped from the top of the building, but in the next shot, the hero who had been killed fell from the hollow corridor to the lobby. This ingenious connection can prove the "psychological hallucination". , and further explained some of the accompanying scenes that seemed mysterious and surreal.
Furthermore, if you pay attention to the age and production area (France, West Germany) of the film, as well as a large number of empty shots of West German neighborhoods, then in addition to the interpretation of gender relations, horror suspense, and schizophrenia, this film also There is a layer of political discussion. First of all, the male protagonist's job is very obscure, and we can only know from three scenarios: resignation - the male protagonist explains to a group of uniformed bosses that he is not up to the job, and then gets a big box of coins; asks for reinstatement- - On the shore, the boss wants the male protagonist to continue to work, because he has no one to replace; death - the boss followed the police into the building. According to various clues, it can be speculated that the male protagonist must be engaged in illegal and secret work, such as espionage, smuggling, etc., coupled with the repeated shooting of the Berlin Wall, its political metaphor is self-evident: only a wall is separated, causing the original People in the same city are separated from each other, unsatisfied with desire, the confrontation between the two camps - is the monster an insinuation of East Germany (the socialist camp)?
In addition, the image of monsters and their behavioral characteristics in the film can not help but evoke the "Pearl Girl and the Octopus" (1814) by the Japanese painter Katsushika Hokusai and the American novelist H. P. Lovecraft in the above The monsters in the "Cthulhu Mythos" depicted by the century...where did they come from? What is the purpose request? Where are you going? What does interracial (monster and human) copulation mean? All of the above constitutes a fascinating and thought-provoking point for the film, and it is no wonder that it was able to shine at European film festivals.
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