Possessed - The Curse of Medusa

Aric 2022-03-21 09:02:48

Extreme, this is the first feeling after watching this movie. When Isabel's extreme blue and fresh and pure white appeared at the same time, I knew that they could not escape their painful fate. A maddened soul because of an overly rich but clueless spiritual world, and a soul deceived because of pure reason and lack of emotion, the two characters jointly write a woman's confusion and sorrow. Andre cruelly gave despair and division to the housewife, and gave hope and new life to the teacher. Andrei gave them eternity with nothing in it. Hidden threats and strange surveillance allow this film to find different interpretations and metaphors in many fields, religion, politics, mythology, and I am inclined towards the birth of monsters and human progress.

To speak absurd, it must be established in the real society. The film begins to explain the contradictions and status quo of the couple's life with tracking shots and rotating long shots: the husband who is busy with work and neglects his wife and children tries to save the endangered couple relationship by resigning as an opportunity. The relationship between people deteriorated rapidly, and the monstrous grievances destroyed the inherent order of life. The suffocating loneliness deeply strangles the two who yearn for redemption, and as the husband investigates his wife's private life, terror and madness spread.

Finally, the copulation between the monster and Isabel completely stimulated the audience's G-spot. Bewildered, "almost, almost", her near-orgasm is both child-care and mumbling. The woman's groans resounded throughout the house, and the wife's unprecedented orgasm wrapped her husband around like a tornado. The husband has become an unexpected visitor, a stranger, and even in his eyes this shocking sexual affair has nothing to do with morality, only mystery. In the face of the huge mystery and exhaustion, the husband chose to remain silent and wait.

On the poster, a woman is comfortably entwined by thin snakes in her hair, and her face can't tell whether it is pain or joy, just like the inexplicable expressions of sadness and joy on people's faces when they orgasm. In mythology, Medusa angered the gods because of her beauty and arrogance. Athena, the goddess of wisdom, turned her hair into countless poisonous snakes, and anyone who saw her eyes would be turned into stone. The monster in the film has a stick shape at the beginning, evolved octopus-like limbs, has a snake-like genitals, and has a pair of enigmatic snake eyes that are exactly the same as her husband. Several features are all metaphors for women. Fascinated by this monster is related to the mythical Medusa. The person who saw the snake-shaped monster pushed its evil spirit to the top in the spirit of almost annihilation: the wife and husband committed suicide after facing the formed monster, and the female passer-by who witnessed it was willing to be his stepping stone. In mythology, Medusa is known as "evil and ugly", and the temperament that the monster fits with is so perfect that it is amazing.

Husband who was speeding through black hole after black hole also embarked on a painful journey of new life

However, what the wife first fell in love with should not be such a piece of meat and resonate with it, but like falling in love with an artist, she can get along for a long time after obtaining great satisfaction both physically and mentally. That is to say, the appearance of monsters in the whole film can be regarded as "Medusa's Birth". It is conceivable that the "monster" that the wife met at the beginning was similar in appearance or character to her husband who had loved her deeply, so the wife fell in love with "him" deeply and gained a sense of value from raising him. However, the curse of the gods made "he" ugly, and his wife was nurtured by human flesh. There is only one corpse in the refrigerator, so that means: the first detective was eaten whole, which gave the monster flesh and blood; the second detective was sucked dry, which gave the monster energy; the wife said "he" In her body is the process of gestation, even birth and incest with it. So the final copulation can be said to be a combination of fertility and sex, extreme pain and pleasure, torture and satisfaction coexist. Birth is sanctified in religious ceremonies, and incest a mythical grief.

As for the Medusa in the film, it seems that it has become a male version. In fact, we can see that the Greek mythology is very loose about sex and even gender: Zeus can "change cattle into rain and everything", only to "make men, women and beauty" "Yan", it has long been no problem for things like gender. Medusa's head is surrounded by a viper, and her body is like Poseidon, the sea god. It is well known that the snake has always symbolized sexual desire and evil. The snake that seduced Eve is the incarnation of Satan. In the normal explanation, the snake, as the most male root, lured Eve into depravity and started an era of human disasters, but in fact, Eve just followed her own will, and the snake played a role as a driving force, not an attractive force. Therefore, in this film, the monster is not the scourge that destroys the couple, but shows them the possibility of becoming bad, and the two just follow it without hesitation. However, freedom is not to be confused with evil. They just went to Paradise Lost.

And an important detail is easy to overlook, that is, the color of the eyes of the teacher in the white dress is green, and that of the wife is blue; while the eyeballs of the monsters are green, and the eyes of the husband are dark blue. This may also mean that what the monster has been looking for is the teacher in white skirt, and only the spiritual union with her is the real resurrection.

The enigmatic indifference is the overall tone of the whole film: the dark blue icy cold, the dark yellow dirty, the dark brown staleness, and the rotten gray deadness all give the film an air of despair and icy coldness. The self-mutilation and various massacres in the second half forced the film to be brightly colored at the expense of blood, and used blood to open up a new path for Medusa. A woman has turned to God without words for help, and God has no words; a man has been lost in time and space for three weeks, and God cannot see. In blue, she is frightened and vulnerable, with childishness in her enchanting; in white, she is strong and sober, and she is innocent in her love. In the end, the religious ending is open and unique. The combination of Medusa and Satan will discover what kind of desire in her heart, and what kind of wisdom and emotion will we find paradise lost on the way forward.

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Extended Reading
  • Carli 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    7/10 The most impressive thing about this film is the wonderful performance of the goddess Isabel Adjani, who is so beautiful and her acting skills are so good. In this movie, she played two roles, with pupils of different colors and interpretations of different temperaments. The long mirror of the crazy scene in the underground passage really exploded incisively and vividly, and it was absolutely magical. With such a performance, winning the Best Actress in Cannes is also a matter of course. Speaking of the movie itself, it's just that I personally don't like it that much. This is of course a horror film with a strong style, and the camera movement, soundtrack, and editing are also very distinctive. In the end, the whole story and the ending have a sense of awkwardness, which makes it less comfortable after watching the movie. This may just be a personal subjective feeling, at least the temperament or state presented by the movie is not too amazing and shocking.

  • Elmer 2022-03-23 09:02:50

    The external society is only weakened into very simple scene symbols such as police and schools, and the interpersonal relationships formed by family and marriage are not the focus of the performance. On the contrary, people's inner emotions evolve into abstract and deformed eyes and limbs, making people feel the extreme pain that can be perceived in the process of self-exploration. The role of Sam Neill is no less difficult than Adjani, but there is no way, sometimes actresses are suitable to be praised.

Possession quotes

  • Subway Drunk: [steals a Banana]

  • Mark: I've decided I don't want to see Bob. He's fucked up enough as it is without me playing Sunday Daddy.