Love is the End of Everything

While there are many movies with the name Possession, today's piece takes a look at the 1981 movie with that title. The film was directed by Andrzej Zulawski and was inspired by his divorce. The basic story centers on Anna and Mark, a married couple whose marriage begins to unravel shortly after Mark returns from a mission as a spy in 1980's Berlin. Obviously, this makes both Anna and Mark insane, as in one sequence, Anna tries to cut her own neck with the electric carving knife and a minute later after bandaging Anna's neck, Mark proceeds to take the same knife to his left arm. Strangely, this isn't the most bizarre thing in the movie. Rather than try to describe it, I'll let you decide:

That thing you see beyond the door not only decides to have sex with Anna later in the movie, but it also mysteriously turns into an exact duplicate of Mark. Whereas that would be labeled as bizarre, what would be labeled as disturbing is Anna's total breakdown in a subway tunnel, where she somehow manages to ooze out red and white fluids. Whether it was that thing she was giving birth to is unknown.

Further complicating this movie is Mark and his sudden affair with Helen, a school teacher that looks just like Anna, only with green eyes. Other characters in this movie are just that, as Heinrich is a bisexual that is the definition of "fruit bat" while there is a detective that wears pink socks. Take that for what you will. Overall, this isn't necessarily a horror film, but considering that this is undoubtedly one of the weirdest movies ever, it wouldn't surprise me if it was labeled as such. All normalcy should be thrown out the window for Possession, as should any clue as to what is going on with the end of this film.