Possession

“Do you believe in god? It’s in me“ ”I can't exist by myself because I'm afraid of myself. Because I'm the maker of my own evil” ”Heinrich’s dead, isn’t he?” Just my kind of film. The visuals are on point, the story is great, and the story doesn’t rely on the gore. The theme of the message is great, which I’ll elaborate on just now. The obvious interpretation of this film is that it’s about a messy divorce (duh) and about how cheating and loss of love is often times unexplainable, and the monster that Anna has an affair with symbolises the destructive nature of the marriage. This also shows how the monster while not explicitly, commands or heavily encourages Anna to kill. At first the film paints Anna as the bad guy and Mark as the good guy, but as the film continues we see that there are no victims yet everyone is, where both are the oppressor oppressing each other. The doppelgängers in the film (Hellen and the monster), show each of the protagonists envy and jealousy of what their respective partners aren’t, Hellen for example is everything Anna isn’t. When Anna refuses to read Bob a bedtime story, Hellen does just that. Whilst it’s not said exactly, implying that the monster is Mark’s doppelgänger at the end of the film, instead of being a perfect version of Mark like Hellen is of Anna, Mark’s dop is Anna’s perfect vision of him. It shows her twisted and strange desires, and how Mark was never enough to full film them. The other interpretation less about marriage is about clinging and drowning in the uncomfortable and sadness, rather than escaping from it. This is symbolised by the monster Anna has an affair with of course, where’s the monster portrays the depression and echochamberness of Anna’s mind, Anna sticks with the monster for the comfort of belonging it gives her.   Favourites2025 Watches RankedOctober Watches Ranked31Horrorfilmsoctober Ranked1980s Ranked