I'm not sure if Possession is a good movie or not. In fact, I'm not really sure what kind of movie it is. For much of the beginning, it is about a couple, played by Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani, getting a very messy divorce after the husband returns to East Berlin from some sort of spy mission. The arguments these two have very quickly become extremely destructive, and extremely loud. The director has let it be known that he wrote the screenplay during his own divorce.
Then, at times, the movie becomes about a slimy, tentacled monster the woman is...creating...in a secret apartment. A monster that she feeds unlucky men that chance upon her. Also, the movie is about alien doppelgangers, mysterious espionage, and in a grand culmination, nuclear war. Somehow, the movie doesn't feel scattered or silly with all of these elements; rather, it feels simply like the insane, overflowing amounts of energy this movie generates can't be contained in one genre.
I'm not sure if Possession is a good movie. What I do know is that's easily the most exhilarating and electric movie I've ever seen. There's something dangerous about this movie in a way that no straight horror film has ever seemed to me. The insanity and hysteria on display here is raw and unadulterated. The performances are incredible. Isabelle Adjani is mindblowing, but even Sam Neill lets loose in a completely surprising way to any fan of his post-Jurassic Park performances.
Needless to say, I have no idea how a director could possibly elicit such intensity from his actors.
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