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Possession (1981) - re:View
🕑 Added 2025-03-20 15:04:56 +0000 UTC
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Matt Arnold
Had a couple Re:View ideas Shakes the Clown Cabin Boy Wilder Napalm
Nick Kerr
This movie is so good
TheSingingBush
Gay
Johnson Dunn
Great Re-View! You guys planning any Severance content? Would love to see your opinions on how it was directed -- you guys always have so much insight in the production process.
TheSingingBush
What’s a X-wing?
Kristian Harloff
I'm out here busting my ass as a StarWars fan and you hacks keep talking about old shit that doesn't even have X-wings
TheSingingBush
Doth thou have a mug of ale for me and me mate? He has been pitched in battle for a fortnight, and has a king's thirst for the frosty brew that doth might brow for doth!
Emma Dawn
Update: Jay's analysis definitely made me appreciate this weirdo movie more. I probably still won't watch it again for at least a decade, but now I am glad I watched it the one time! Also everything above this comment is hilarious, thank u all
Ryan Freedman
Written and directed by Elaine may
Neil Peart, Lord of Drums
Just have to say: I literally laughed out loud. I look forward to whatever movie you get produced.
Sarah Low
What a great discussion, you guys!
Rankin Fithian
She fucking SUCKS, Neil. NEIL, I won't keep you, but, I hate her stinking guts and I hope she loses her shoes in a river.
andrew
I’ve never watched this movie, but I immediately recognized the shot at 1:30. It was featured in Every Frame A Painting’s episode on editing, “How Does an Editor Think and Feel?” I’ll get around to watching it.
Juan Calvo
Once I knew about the politics of the director, that is all I can think about when I see the ending of this movie.
Neil Peart, Lord of Drums
Daaaaamn! Somebody call 911 because there's been a murder on the RLM Patreon! I can tell you're a writer. Those were some sick burns :) "A lousy writer and a worse critic." That's just a puke-inducing kick to the lady-balls. I would love to subscribe to your newsletter (hear more). Sorry I didn't reply sooner, but law school has been getting crazy lately and I don't do this stuff on my phone... Mmmm...Heroin and molasses. So warm. So safe. So down-home Southern cookin'. My favorite
Kate HL
Great video; I learned some stuff I didn't pick up on in my viewings of the movie. Should make the next watch more interesting (when I work up to it... definitely a "mood" movie). And heck yes to Josh's Uecker/Lynch shirt.
Yngwie Tarantino
Finally! I watched this a few days ago in anticipation and it's been sitting in my stomach like a piece of bad cabbage.
Rankin Fithian
"Weirdly invested" are the magic words, Neil! Welcome to my online zine, "I Could Talk Shit About This Bitch All Day!" Put most succinctly, she was attention-seeking, antagonistic, and anti-intellectual. I was annoyed by her from the jump, and though initially accused of run-of-the-mill Female territorialism (🙃), I was entirely vindicated by the events that bore out: All on her own, she needled, irritated, or outright insulted like 5 other group members in a row and got booted. Back-breaking straw being when she told a longstanding group member to not be "butthurt" over a game we were playing. She's a Pick-Me ass baby, a lousy writer and a worse critic, and everyone finally got sick of it. It's been 2 weeks and her name lives on in infamy. Plus I get to wear this little paper crown that says "I Outlived My Anime Rival And I'm Always Right." The smug superiority still courses through my veins like heroin + warm molasses. Egg Rankin on to hear more! Reply STOP to Cancel.
Brian
sooo I'm watching this for the first time. what the flying fuck is going on in this movie
Neil Peart, Lord of Drums
I'm conflicted about this movie too. It's not easy, but neither is something like Solaris, which I love. I've only watched it twice, but I don't want to watch it again. I appreciate it and I love parts of it, but something about it never "hit" for me, like Emma said. I wish I had a movie club though! I'm weirdly invested in the unrelated reasons for the anti-Possession member's ejection...
Neil Peart, Lord of Drums
Thank you for your service. You're a true hero
Marvin Falz
Jay and Josh, I admire that you're always able to find the humanity in movies like Possession! (I genuinely mean that.)
Zoran Basic
Polish director working in France made a film in Germany with actors from various countries including New Zeland. Something must have been lost in translation or it is proof that if you tell a film only using emotion it transcends language and borders
casey
I ordered a new shirt from the RLM merch store, then I refreshed my youtube page and seen there was a new re:view, so the only logical conclusion is, I am the one who made this re:view possible. you're welcome everyone.
Manuel Johnen
The problem with "Possession" is that in order to care about a movie I have to care about the characters in it and I don't give a fuck about anybody in this... that's an issue it shares with every single Żuławski' film I've seen, by the way, he never directs his actors to be real human beings, but instead to... ... ... whatever this is... His last film "Cosmos" was the absolute worst in that regard, basically unwatchable...
Rankin Fithian
Nobody has to like everything, lol. I happen to really really like it, but even I wouldn't call it an effortless pleasure to watch or anything. I think our That Person happened to be an incurious contrarian more than anything else. That's the only time where I can see a cinematic opinion as also being a moral failing. 😅 Another guy in our group hated it too, but we're still happy to have him!
Emma Dawn
I think I'm the bad person of my own group because all of my friends love it but I'm conflicted! I'm not at all anti- slow/weird/gross movies and obviously the acting is amazing. It just didn't hit for me. Maybe Jay and Josh will sell me on it, I usually agree with them.
Manuel Johnen
Did you shoot the 10/10 guy...?
DonMac
I love Jay & Josh re:Views!
THE_GnomeChomskee
Somehow I knew it would be these two talking about this movie as soon as I saw it was up.
Rankin Fithian
Possession deeply divided our movie group lately, from someone who hadn't seen it until last year and gave it an instant, rare-for-him 10/10... To the person who gave it "a half star" because it's "Weird, awful, and boring." 🙃 The latter has since gotten herself kicked out of movie group for unrelated reasons, but I was ready to let her go right then and there.
Neil Peart, Lord of Drums
I miss the timeline where Jay was slowly transitioning to our elderly aunt
David Sarginson
RIP Wings Hauser. He’s not in Possession, but frankly that’s a failing on the filmmakers part.
Manuel Johnen
As with pretty much all of Żuławski's films: off-putting and overrated. The only interesting thing about "Possession" is, that it remains his most well known and popular film despite being also his most bizarre and weird one...
Thomas Branch
I love you. Are we getting something tomorrow too? My other RLM lovers fam have been commenting how consistent you have been dropping new videos on Fridays!
AshesBoomstick
Classic!
Shane
Yes!!! In my top five films. But only managed to get through it three times. The first time I watched it… was so emotionally intense I was exhausted. Left me a different person for a few days. Even with the occasional campiness.
KLANG
Fuck yes
Chloe
Yeeeeeeeeeees, thank you !
