Possessor Review: Cronenberg Steps is one of the best movies you've ever created

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Logline: A murder victim who pulls and picks up human remains to complete his assignments finds himself trapped in a man who does not want to go down without a fight.

Longerline: Possessor stars Andrea Riseborough as Tasya Vos, the mother of a young boy, a divorced wife, and a serial killer who can fetch her knowledge into the mind of a conspiracy & # 39; s to accomplish a bloodbath hidden in the name of business purposes. He has … a lot on his mind.

Going out and getting into her brain breaks Tasya's psyche, but her boss (Jennifer Jason Leigh) insists on one urgent task: the three murders of the CEO, her daughter, and Colin (Christopher Abbott), the boyfriend's daughter, which will be Tasya's car for all three homicides . The compulsive killer agrees, and after kidnapping Colin and installing a cyberpunky headphone jack on his skull, he goes to the deadly races.

Tasya's paralyzed mind leaves Colin with the winged room he needs for control. Next up is the botched operation, to put it in terms of spoiler words, and the problem of violent identity.

Average rating: (The bleeding noise of a cleaver that repeatedly breaks into a man's chest.)

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What is it trying to do? With Possessor, Brandon Cronenberg (It is an antiviral) holds a badge that is terrible for his father, The Videodrome Director David Cronenberg, and is a threat to the audience. The movie is manipulative and creative to exploit, less concerned with meaningless messages than brute force. There are loads of real battle – everyone stabs Possessor It goes about 28 times longer to swallow than your average slasher can handle – and a weird battle is stored in Colin's mind. The sequence in which Colin meets Tasya in a simulation flight combines the retro subtleties of movies like Mandy with severe prosthetics symptoms and debilitating visual effects.

Possessor strings together its gory sequence with the speed of a spy-movie. Cronenberg's approach to interpretation actuallyInitiation, leaving the rules and sizes of characters unspecified for offline. Confusion is part of the equation, showing a brief double glimpse of Tasya and Colin's shared vision, but the director never loses sight of what the audience really needs to be able to truly understand the apparent chaos of each character.

Does it get there? Possessor it works because it's more than just transfusing blood through its veins. The movie as an agency and technological utility in its mind, with Tasya's assassination work clipping Colin's day job as a data tracker that taps consumers' web pages to login to home delivery and purchase tracking. Everyone in this dystopian future gets their wires pulled by an invisible one. Cronenberg makes his tough sci-fi point in a surprising way.

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Excessive violence, often perpetrated by Cronenberg in close proximity that will stifle special effects-based exams, ultimately strengthens the bigger picture. Tasya is pushed to the edge to do the work, and at the expense of her symptoms. Colin, though run by someone else, has blood on his hands, and has become a different kind of noir sleuth in the process. Anything is possible, and everything is possible. From the integrated hell out comes two discordant, man-made ones from Riseborough and Abbott.

What does that mean for us? An entertaining movie that might already have an NC-17 rating. Without the respect of the taboo, Possessor and has the right money to build the world and the splendor of being a conversation starter. The family plays a major role in choosing Tasya's anonymous career, with the influence of corporate soldiers becoming a sticking point as the movie begins to come to a conclusion. The themes of sex, class, and economic war are all on the table. But the scariest thing is the most important thing that happens in Cronenberg, and by god, the flesh wounds are soothing. Maybe even removing a jaw?

The most memorable moment: Depends on when people can send their missing fingers to Tumblr without being blocked.

When can we see it? Possessor it is a private product paid for at Sundance, and is currently seeking distribution.