Let’s talk about the movie "The Occupier" today.
The title is Possessor (2020), alias Possessor Uncut.
The director of this film is Canadian Brandon Cronenberg (Brandon Cronenberg), this film is also his second feature film.
The audience may not be familiar with him. Mention his father David Cronenberg (David Cronenberg).
Canadian director David Cronenberg is the chairman of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival and the winner of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. David likes to combine nightmares with reality, emphasizing that nightmares stem from real life.
Brandon Cronenberg inherited his father's business to a large extent, and also presented similar themes through the film.
"The Occupier" is just a discussion about nightmares and reality under the cloak of science fiction.
The story takes place in the future. A mysterious organization develops a technology that can control the brains of others. Professional technician Tasya Vos (Tasya Vos) uses "parasites" to designate characters to complete the corresponding fixed-point assassination missions, and profit from it. .
As the number of missions continued to increase, Tacia Voss gradually noticed some differences, and these subtle differences would affect her mission.
Brandon Cronenberg said that the film was inspired by two aspects.
The first is the book "Physical control of the mind: Towards a spiritually civilized society" by Jos Manuel Rodrguez Delgado (Jos Manuel Rodrguez Delgado) in 1971 and "Physical control of the mind:" Toward a psychocivilized society (Harper Colophon books)". This book describes how radio commands induce movement, how to induce or eliminate hostility, change social hierarchy, sexual behavior, and remotely affect memory, emotions and thinking processes.
The second is a 9-minute short film "Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You" (Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You, 2019) which he directed.
There are two versions of the script for "The Occupier", and there may be a second movie in the future, including shooting material not included in this film.
"Occupier" was released in Canada with a viewing rating of 18A. Later, in order to obtain an R rating in the United States, a few minutes of sexual and violent scenes were deleted, otherwise it would be NC-17.
In order to express virtual thought control, the director set an initial setting that looks like science fiction.
Well-trained agents can control the controlled person through wireless links and brain implants. As long as the agent himself is strong enough and determined enough, he can complete various behaviors easily and smoothly. Whether it's sex or violence, you can do it with ease.
But if there is a problem with the agent itself, whoever controls it becomes ambiguous.
This is what the film focuses on discussing, when two consciousnesses collide, who will have the upper hand.
When control becomes loose, there are many reasons. It may be the subconscious awakening of the intruder, the conscious counterattack of the intruder, or the resistance of the intruder to control.
The setting of "Occupier" is relatively large, and there is a lot of room for exploration.
Is there a mysterious organization that controls everything behind those glamorous powerful and powerful? The appearance of external harm caused by internal disagreements within the mysterious organization, etc.
The film's thoughts on this technology have been simple, and if the process of more in-depth discussion is filmed, the effect will be much better than it is now.
It can be clearly seen that the director's performance techniques are too abstract, like a bloody coat wrapped in a deep study of consciousness.
In the end, it's hard to tell whether the invader Tacia Voss' own desire to kill is at work, or the invaded Colin Tate's willpower is fighting back.
From the assassination at the beginning of the film, you can feel that Tacia Voss has a strong desire to kill and an extreme desire for blood. Originally planning to know the target task directly with a pistol, she chose to puncture the victim's carotid artery with a sharp knife. The blood on the ground is a visual spectacle and her desire.
At the same time, it can be felt that Tasia Voss has lost control over the invader. The victim is unwilling to give in easily, and can't press the trigger to commit suicide anyway.
Tacia Voss has another obsession with the male body.
When she invaded the female body, she was not curious about the body itself, but after invading the male body, she began to have a strange feeling about the male's physiology. It can be seen that she has made a detailed observation of Colin Tate's genitals, and she has her own careful thoughts about sex with men.
This setting weakened her control of the body to a certain extent, and also made her obsessed with the new body, and she was reluctant to give up. All this laid the groundwork for subsequent development.
The props appearing in the film all have their functions, and the most iconic one is the butterfly. In the last scene of the film, the pool of blood between Colin and Ella formed the shape of a red butterfly.
Originally, the butterfly specimens were used to identify the mental power of Tacia Voss. Only when Tacia Voss can correctly say the butterfly specimens can she be considered normal.
In the first case of the film, Tacia Voss successfully recognized the butterfly specimen and expressed guilt for killing the butterfly as a child. At the end of the second case in the film, Tacia Voss also succeeded in recognizing the butterfly specimen, but that was all, and did not show any guilt.
It can be seen that Tacia Voss desire to kill has already prevailed.
In order to achieve a convincing sense of realism, "The Occupier" minimizes the use of computer CG special effects as much as possible. Most of the special effects are done in real shots.
The illusions seen by Tacia Voss in the film are both real and illusion, and they are all actually filmed. The advantage of this is that although the audience knows this is an illusion, it is extremely real, which further confuses everyone in the audition. It can cause the audience to think in the direction of reality and illusion.
Sean Bing is known as the actor who has died the most times in Hollywood. This time it is no accident, he is the fate of lunch again.
The role he plays is basically a dead end, which can be called a human-shaped self-propelled spoiler. Compared with the previous method of death, in "The Occupier", he successfully tried another new method of tortured death. Regardless of whether the character can survive in the end, his bloody scene is a small climax of the whole film.
Nightmare manipulation comes from reality,
Many factors compete for control.
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