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- What do you think about Possession? Have you seen Zulawski's other film? Comment below!
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Movies Shown
Possession
The Third Part of the Night
The Devil
That Most Important Thing: Love
On the Silver Globe
Ashes and Diamonds
My Brilliant Career
The Killing Fields
Posession Movie
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:56 Zulawski
06:55 Possession
10:23 Sponsorship
11:22 Possession Again
17:41 Epilogue
19:24 Credits and Outtake
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I have this really hot take about hentai! I personally believe that octopuses are a lesser evolved alien species either put on this planet by accident from an astroid containing alien single cell organisms that collided with earth, or just put here on purpose to study their evolution in our planet's environment. I believe this due to Octopus DNA genome being 6 times larger than humans, their separately evolved superior intelligence, and their unknown or "alien" DNA. My take is that somewhere deep in our subconscious, we know that this species is essentially an alien to our planet, and since fethishes can be either nature or nurture, it's just a fetish on a deep subconscious level to either see someone get fvcked by, or personally fvck an alien species. It's essentially just an alien sex fetish. Cuz I cannot possobly comprehend any other conclusion as to why someone would want to see Octopuse on human sex, even in the fetish realm, it's an anomaly. Every other fetish has a reason behind it, this one does not, and there's a reason for everything.
When an auteur film maker gets divorced you know you're gonna get something you haven't seen before. And maybe never wanted to.
Or knew you wanted to??
In this case it's more like an Autist. Fucking tentacle monsters...
Temple Of Doom is another example. The cynical tone of the movie is because Lucas went through a rough divorce before and during the making of the film.
I laughed hard here. Good one! So true!
if David Linch gets divorced that shits gonna be wild
The actress in this movie is the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. She looks like a painting.
To me, young Isabelle Adjani looks as what one would imagine when someone says "a pretty French woman".
She reminds me A mix between phoebe cates and Jennifer Connelly .
Reminds me of young Monica Bellucci. She and Adjani are kinda the same type of beauty, they look a bit like sisters even, in my opinion.
Mid
Wow, like a painting? Canvas and all?
This movie is one of those "I have no idea what's going on but I can't look away"
watched it tripping 😂 fuck man
Most boring shit I've watched. It's difficult to stay engaged.
Also both Sam Neil and Adjani would later state that the making of Possession was incredibly difficult on them, both physically and psychologically, which I guess shows just how grueling that type of acting is for the performers.
“Having to totally commit her mind and body to the lead role of Anna, Adjani would later comment that it took her several years to recover from the torment of the performance.”
Sam Neill noted, “I call it the most extreme film I’ve ever made, in every possible respect, and he asked of us things I wouldn’t and couldn’t go to now. And I think I only just escaped that film with my sanity barely intact”.
no doubt
so cringe, wow she had to move weird and scream a bit, tough
@@rumck it's a direct quote...all he said was it was trying emotionally for them
IDGAF about the movie myself, but I find the toll it took interesting. I guess you can roll around and scream and not find it exhausting, but I suspect days upon days upon days of doing so would tax anyone `\u/`
Yes, she is always on the list of actors who were damaged irreprarily during the making of the film. Just to add, Colin Ferrel in The Kings Speech started to stutter after he made The Kings Speech, it affected him so much, he still sometimes stutters. As does the main character of a Clockwork Orange, when they pried his eyes open, the metal scratched his cornea and it was unable to be healed or corrected.
Bit cringe innit
It found it disturbing in the sense that it reminded me too much of my dysfunctional family with my parents arguing about money and my dad’s drinking problems. It was nothing but screaming matches and broken furniture. It only ended with my dad leaving the country back to Mexico and becoming estranged with my mother and left me wondering how I’m not emotionally affected from this.
You are emotionally affected. We are all emotionally affected by our parents as they raise us through childhood.
@@joogullae3456 Dipshit
@@joogullae3456 Si, gabacho.
…Juan, you and I have very similar childhood experience, my dad was also alcoholic and they fought tooth and nail over everything, especially money.. I give you a hug
@@joogullae3456 입 다물어라 이 Koreaboo sekkiya
Adjani likened this film to "emotional pornography". According to Zulawski, she wasn't wrong. Perhaps it's because I am a child of divorce, but this is my favorite horror movie of all time and I appreciate the background you included on Zulawski. Solid watch, thanks.
Possession(1981) is one of the most scariest movies that I’ve ever seen in awhile. Probably one of the best horror movies of all time
YOOO WHERE THE FUCK IS IT AVAILABLE I CANT FIND IT
oh man, nothing is more scarier than that!
it would take longer than i care to spend making fun of the 'ever seen in awhile' part, so.
Sure, scary. But how is it the best at anything? I felt the movie was a pure exercise in style without much merit... someone asking what would happen if a movie was equal parts Lynch, Cronenberg, and Kafka; well what happens is a tedious mess in my opinion.
@@Valkalium style contains many more things than just simple aesthethics
@ sure does… in a good movie.
In my opinion Possession is an overrated mess that does boil down to mostly just empty style. Anything can be explained as intentional as in this video; acting is not bad but follows Polish norms at the time, the camera work is not plain bad but characteristic of the director, the themes are not mumbo jumbo but covert criticisms. Even simple continuity errors are infallible - “it’s just a subtle mark of the unreliable narrator”!
All that may be. I still find it too tedious and prolonged to get through a second viewing and so inconsistent and unbalanced the main feeling left after watching is that of frustration and tiredness.
The movie may take itself too seriously, but what makes it feel pretentious as all hell is actually the blind cult following.
Considering that this is the kind of script that most stars, even the braver and bolder ones, pay people good money to keep as far away from them as possible, I can't say what attracted Adjani to the role but something about it clearly clicked, as she throws herself into it with the kind of intensity most could never dream of mustering.
It's worth saying that she actually regrets taking on the role. She said it's the kind of role only a young person would accept. She also said the director treated her poorly to get better performances from her
She wasn't Adjani before doing this movie, just an upcoming actress, she maybe regrets it but it helped her becoming a star, so happy end..
they say, she was hard to work with
you stole this paragraph from Ebert's review ahaha
The scene with the jam is so disturbing - I have a son, and it just horrifies me to think of him ever being neglected like that. It's a brilliant scene and I hate it. If that makes any sense.
What happens with the Jam?
The fact that the scene can evoke such a powerful emotion, shows how great of a scene it is!
@@ckotcher1 Nothing inherently scary, the main character goes back home after a weeks long drunk breakdown to find his son fervently eating after having been left alone for a long time
@@Irene-sm7ih ohh I remember now. Yeah to me that was just a kid covered in jam lol. I get that the mother was losing it but my parents found my brother and I covered in Peanut Butter…among other things 😑. 💩 Long story lol. My brother was only 5 at the time and I was three but he was nasty. Now THAT could have been in a horror movie lol.
@@ckotcher1 holy shit lol
I actually got freaked out when she broke the fourth wall. Such a transcendental experience
wasn't she talking to Heinrich?
I watched this film really, really young, and the only interpretation I really had was this idea that you can still love someone, but there's so much discord and anger and fighting in the relationship that it's too hard loving them, but you're reluctant to let them go, and maybe fantasize about what you could change about them to make them perfect to fix the relationship. In the movie the 'perfect' version of their lover comes into existence. I don't know if that's even right, but how I always saw it.
Later I found out Adjani is like the French Meryl Streep, which is amusing because Streep would never have had the balls to make something like this.
You described my parent's relationship
I think that both were in love with being,but mainly with the idea of each other.
The movie is what happens when you mistake obssession for love and create a fantasy in your head about someone that is not real,and don't know when to say goodbye to a relationship.
10:05 the part where she says "i feel nothing for no one" and the audio kind of distorts is an amazing touch/accident (i doubt they intended for it but for me it worked either way) to help with that feeling of breaking down
As a person who believes that divorce between couples is something WAY subversive and depressive, and how nowadays divorce is like something almost every couple does like a pretty normal thing, I think this movie was very neat when it came down to its message.
Getting a divorce would actually destroy me
@@adelinewurzer4533 same
It's all about perspective really. Some people don't view marriage as highly as you do or they're just more individualistic people. It's not wrong that people exist differently than you.
This film really freaked me out when I saw it randomly on a late night movie channel bout 20 years ago.
I thought Isabelle Adjani was so beautiful, regardless of how disturbingly possessed her character was.
I’ve only seen it once but the memory of it has scarred my mind permanently.
I thought the same too even in the subway scene scene where she's being sick and blood is coming out of her I can't help but notice how gorgeous looking she is even in that situation
She's gorgeous
I just realized the band “Massive attack.” Has a music video with Rosemund Pike, called “Voodoo, in my blood.” That is paying homage to “The Possession.” It has the actress in a subway doing the exact same possession/movements.
I went down the disturbing movie road a couple years ago. There was Salo, two or three Japanese movies mostly about kidnap/torture, The Human Centipede and then A Serbian Film, that one broke me. I’d watch the others again if say a friend wanted to watch together but there is nothing that could convince me to watch A Serbian Film again. I had the same sort of experience in the 90’s that started with the Faces of Death videos, the internet was fairly new and I found some gore sites that published real horrible things.
I honestly saw so much it changed me, made me a little more cynical about the world. All the daily horror that is very real and happening right now, maybe in the house right next to you.
If you like those weird, taboo, disturbing and psychological movies about people's minds when something goes wrong, I recommend you Lars Von Trier's movies such as Breaking the waves; Nymphomaniac; Dancer in the dark.
@@pinkycat5947 This was a thing I did a few years ago, not some general fondness for disturbing content. Like I said A Serbian Film broke me and I stay from such content now.
A Serbian film is trash
@@pinkycat5947I love nymphomaniac
@@adelinewurzer4533ewww
It's been a few decades since I saw the film, but the one scene that stuck in memory is the ballet school. The tension and the looks into the camera... so stressful!
the first time i ever fell in love with a person was with my ex. the relationship ended because he went into adderrall psychosis and lost grip of reality to a point where i couldnt even let him catch sight of me anymore. i dont know how i could describe my feelings in words, but watching this film brought something out of me that felt like a relatable representation on a surreal level
Definitely one of the most effed up movies that still managed to keep a plot
I had heard about Possession for so long. I knew it was supposed to be weird, but all I had ever heard was that it was "disturbing" and "intense." I had no idea it was such a heightened, absurdist film. So when I FINALLY got to see it I was quite letdown. I found it shrill and drawn-out and annoying.
But it stuck with me. I kept thinking about it. And I grew to really love it. Once you're on the film's wavelength, it's one HELL of a fascinating watch. It's like being sucked into a manic vortex of human emotion at it's most base.
great comment. it really does linger in you mind.
I’m really glad you said that, I just finished the film and while it definitely feels disappointing in some sense I also appreciate the insanity and artistry going into the film. It’s very flawed in a way, but I’m glad I watched it, I do hate how critics sometimes act so snobbishly vague, like they could’ve at least said “this is absurdist batshit crazy experimental filmmaking, its not some masterful perfection”. I appreciate how flawed it is, and its definitely memorable. Just disappointing that the reputation of this film is so vague, because I feel a lot of ppl will be let down by what they get. I’m glad to enjoy a weird movie if I can at least be told as such, because it rlly is so experimentally insane with all the drawn-out screaming and talking that doesnt go anywhere and yet some ppl don’t want to admit that part of it? Part of enjoying a movie is also criticising it it, at least imo
I had a very similar response to the movie!
I need to see all of these movies! I'm so glad I found your channel. I'm already familiar with a lot of the movies you've covered and surprised at how much there is still left to uncover...! 😁😁
A great take on the film, with a lot of behind the scenes details I didn’t know. And your ‘redo’ of the subway scene is priceless. 😳😁👍🏼
I always get excited about Possession videos, this definitely hit the mark perfectly! This movie genuinely haunts me but the more I learn about it the more intrigued i am
Possession is one of my favorite films of all-time. Andrzej Żuławski deserves so much more recognition than he receives. I’m planning to watch The Devil very soon. So excited! You did a great job, Kino! Also, you doing “the scene” got me. 🤣
check out la femme publique!! great film
Ah, yes. I remember the, uh, the, uh, the Octopus thing as being really interesting. That’s a Carlo Rambaldi mechanical creation. He built some really incredible puppet effects for many films. Quite often his work is the best crafted thing in the films he worked on.
Practical effects, when done right, are always a treat in films.
When you imitated the subway scene in a pile of skittles for the sponsorship i subbed
Loving the boldness of the ad read. Love you for that
Normally I’d cringe at that polish acting in the middle. But your commitment and the length of the scene sold me. An audible laugh. Top marks.
You are a hidden gem my guy, really glad I found your content.
We now know that someone on the Disney+ promotional team is a fan of KC, and memed him into releasing the video.
Greetings from Poland! I'm very grateful for the depth of your research.
Finally, kino is back with another kino video!
Just discovered your channel, amazing and the way you explain films is clear and sharp. Grettings from Mexico.
This film was so interesting and fun to watch (made me depressed for a hot minute) but I loved it in the end and I love your video! Thank you so much for making this :DDD
Frankly, I've considered "Possession" to be my favourite film of all time for a few years and it still remains my fav along with Hideaki Anno's "The End of Evangelion". It's a film that introduced my into Żuławski's dark, twisted and fascinating world which I haven't left since. There wasn't, isn;t and will never be another auteur with a mind like his. I'd say that despite the dark and depressing tone of his films, almost all of them have that ray of hope at the very end of the story (like the young nun in "The Devil"). Żuławski wasn't afraid to show the evil within mankind but presenting it on-screen actually resulted in something opposite, his films feels incredibly human.
P.S. That bit about girls with Anna profile pics made me chuckle a little bit because it's way too real for me. I used to know one in the past and it surely was a scarring experience.
Alright just have to say really informative brief summary of Zulawski and his filmmaking career before Possession, makes me super intrigued about his filmography. I also had only heard of Andrzej Wajda from Ashes and Diamonds, you explain the chronology really well (as well as really effective editing of stuff from those movies), especially for someone who has no idea who these ppl or their influence/fame are. And somehow you do this in just a few minutes. Keep up the great work.
This might be the most brilliant ad placement that I've ever seen. Whatever they've paid you for that performance, they should have double it.
Well said :)))
So glad people are still talking about this movie! Definitely one of my faves
I managed to see a somewhat restored version of On the Silver Globe at a local independent cinema and I can say without a doubt it is worth watching even incomplete, the concepts and production designs are so interesting
Also I believe that polish theater director is referenced at length by Andre Gregory in My dinner with Andre, he was almost a sort of shaman
Fantastic video!
Isabelle Adjani is simply amazing in this role
I'd love to be an actor with this kind of director, they are healing and so are you. acting out all these beautiful disturbing moments and touching others a way they didn't know they could ❤❤
LMAO I can't believe you recreated the subway scene you absolute made man. I'm so glad you covered this masterpiece
The Untamed or as it’s known in Spanish: La Región Salvaje. Is a Mexican sci-fi horror that is basically tentacle hentai. It’s about a sexual frustrated wife and mother of two who is drugged and is introduced to a tentacle alien that brings her to orgasm. Then she spends the rest of the movie continuing to visit it. As her cheating husband has an affair with her brother. Very weird movie and uncomfortable to watch ( for me anyway)
Yeah I wouldn't share that, bud
This video helps me understand and appreciate this film so much more than before. What a masterpiece of (horror) cinema.
There is another live action horror film with a hyper sexual octopus-like creature (men and women). It's a Mexican film titled The Untamed. It is worth checking out.
Came here to mention “The Untamed”(2016)…if you guys need me, I’ll be out in the barn.
What a remarkable film. I don't think I've seen or ever will see anything like Adjani's performance in any other film. The camera work is absolutely stellar.
Love Possession and the setting of Berlin at the time is a great metaphor for Mark's duality. Andrej Zulawski, Sam Neill (in only his second major movie after The Final Conflict) and Isabella Adjani are awesome.
Lol I relate too much to that opening skit. I feel like I'm always having to explain shit I'm watching.
11:21 I just found this channel and BOY AM I ELATED! That breakdown after the job offer was ... Chef's kiss.
I am a super nerd for physical theatrics!
That intro was funny as shit.
You may already be aware of this but if not, I highly recommend a 2016 movie by a Mexican director, Amat Escalante, entitled Untamed (La Region Salvaje.) The themes are very similar and it is an homage to Zulawski. Of particular interest is the appearance of a fine Mexican actor, Enoc Leano, in a small role late in the film starting at the time stamp 1:19.
As someone going through a divorce I know exactly what this movie was going for and it nailed it.
I thought I knew an ok amount about this movie considering how confusing it is but no, there's so much more depth to it than I was at all aware of!! so bloody cool. thank you for making this video :>
POSSESSION has been in my all-time favorite films for several years and I'm pretty sure it will remain there indefinitely. Seen several of Zulawski's films. So far, the one I love the most is ON THE SILVER GLOBE.
Fantastic vid as always Kino
Possession is one of those films you never forget after watching. Just be sure to watch the un-rated version.
Why not watch the rated version (I haven't seen either)?
That was really awesome. Thank you.
I can fix her
The actress is what really made the film memorable to me, her performance is just something else. Horrific, emotional, beautiful, I wouldn’t even know how to describe it. Both were great but she just really stuck in my mind.
i’m only 7 minutes into the video but wow such an informative video! you have a new subscriber
Adding: Rembaldi did the machanics of the Alienhead - but it was not designed by him, but by HR. Giger ;)
SO SO SO SO Glad I found you!!!! :D
The cinematography is amazing. Way ahead of its time.
I love this movie sm! Acting, cinematography, directing in this movie are so amazing 👏
Fantastic vide and I didn’t know the director! Thank you so much for the recommendation. That’s going to be tonight’s movie.
One of my all time favorite movies! Found it fr free online on some sketchy website when I was in high school in 2015 while scrolling tumblr lmao so good
Though I'm from Poland, I have never heard about that crazy-exxagerated-acting technique. I thought it's for the film's... aesthetics? Purpose? Holly hell idk how to call it LOL It's really interesting, gonna look into it. I really need to watch the whole movie, as the last time I didn't have an opportunity to... Thank U! 🔥
I am 38 years old now.... I saw this film in my early 20s.... 😆 I really actually enjoyed the philosophy behind it
That sponsorship possession moment was top tier
Was watching this in a theater the other night with no idea what I was in for. I knew about the "birth" scene in hearsay, and when she was looking up at the Jesus statue, I knew what was coming next, and I had to tap out. This video definitely gives me a better understanding (and appreciation) of the acting styles. Unfortunately, seeing it with a crowd may not have been the best way for a first time.
Possession is not your average horror movie. Its very deep and intriguing has fine details and plays with human emotions and dilemma
thanks for the insights. did not make it through by the first watch. might give it another try now 🙏
That screaming at the beginning is sampled in a dance song from 1988 that rocked the industrial night clubs of Texas. R.O.E. by Scarecrow. I danced my little ass off to that song back then, never knowing where the sample came from. Was mind-bending to suddenly hear it.
Hell yeah. This is some quality content for a quality film.
thank you for sharing this great director
Great video!
I always felt like the movie reveals the truth of all relationship which is they always rest and ride on a knifes edge, if you tilt one way to the right or one way to the left the relationship fails... So you have to ride this little tight rope path to make it work every day
Uh, no that sounds like a toxic/abusive relationship lmao. Strong relationships don't have the fear of not being able to work out, because there's trust and unconditional love
@@leilanidrennan1767 haha yeah I used to believe that and then I grew up and became an adult
one of my favorite films and my favorite horror movie of all time, truly a masterpiece.
The movie was appreciated in Poland. I watched it as kid on national tv in late 80s. At that time only important movies were on.
Saw this at the brattle while visiting Boston, had no idea what I was getting into really was shocked in all the best ways a film can
[PT-BR] No inicio eu achei que era um vídeo inventado de crítica e sátira. Mas quando eu vi que realmente havia arte cinematográfica e não somente brincandeiras com associação de imagens de filmes antigos, foi aí que eu realmente fiquei apavorado. Congratz from Brazil!
Do you think that perhaps Helen is a creation of Mark? She has the same striking green eyes as the Mark doppelganger.
The cuts on his arm are actually still there and are shown more as partially healed scrapes, you can see them on his left arm
I just stumbled across your video and 80s horror overseas have the best movies. This reminds me of the movie Xtro. I'm watchin Possession now seeing Sam Neill before his Jurassic Park days is a treat. In the beginning you notice the mediocre acting, but after 20 min, it all goes away and become fully invested. Thanks for makin this video. You've earned a sub!!
Great video on one of my favorites. I sadly, have not seen any of Zulawski's other films. I need to fix that, they looked amazing. Also hentai is Kino confirmed.
Great review 👏
This sounds like an absolutely insane watch.
Leviathan and the female subconscious
Great video, one thing to point out though, I think Kieślowski is probably the most famous Polish director and has been for a few years
Lmao!! The intro got me invested.
This is why I enjoy these videos. I can still get a little bit of information, watch a few clips and find a b about these movies, but I never have to have this disgusting shit trapped In my head forever! Be careful, watching this kind of stuff can change you.
Somehow I ended watching this film back in 2013, a couple of month after an extremely painful breakup. I understood everything emotionally wise; and it was under those conditions that I could ever watch a film like this, alone.
Brilliant. Thanks
Great review - this was a weird, but strangely compelling film
This was shown once on TCM late at night, VERY late at night.
You pretty much nailed it.
After I watched this movie the first time, I really couldn't decide if I hated it or not. Therefore, I determined it must be a work of pure genius.
Isabelle Adjani is clearly one of the world's most beautiful woman...
Now that you've joked about being an anime youtuber:
Do you have a favorite(s) among animated films? I would really be interested in seeing a discussion on your favorite pieces like you did with film, if there are any
Liked, subscribed, and belled, and here's my comment: Wild Gesticulations in cinema is going to be a pet passion of comedy for me, regardless of the themes or context. I want to get my friends in on it if possible.