Corpsey
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I've remembered I've seen Videodrome, which was the best one of all.Also A Dangerous Method and Cosmopolis.
But again, not the really hardcore ones like The Brood, Rabid, etc.
I really liked A Dangerous Method though
I've remembered I've seen Videodrome, which was the best one of all.Also A Dangerous Method and Cosmopolis.
But again, not the really hardcore ones like The Brood, Rabid, etc.
Yeah I dunno, certain films really suck me in on ket, but I get the feeling with this it might have resulted in me going off on too many tangents inside my head and not actually paying enough attention.I'm intrigued by the idea @Pandiculate that being high on ket would make a film better. I can't imagine that being true. When I'm on ket I can barely work out how to tie my own shoelaces.
Ah yes.They're supposed to kill themselves but in the case of the guy who takes her over he seems to vacillate between believing he'd done the murders (to the extent of inventing a reason for it) and knowing he'd been taken over. That was a really cool element of it, he had PTSD from committing murders he hadn't actually committed himself (although another interesting element is the question of to what extent "he" is involved in the murders, even if under duress). Some people online theorise that the reason the second murder is so horrible is that the host had feelings of anger and hatred that the possessor was channelling.
I'm intrigued by the idea @Pandiculate that being high on ket would make a film better. I can't imagine that being true. When I'm on ket I can barely work out how to tie my own shoelaces.
I think the reason I love this film so much is i'm really interested in psychopaths
Under the Skin was sort of about a psychopath - she's an alien but it's that cold chill you get watching this human-looking being acting completely emotionlessly
I think the reason I love this film so much is i'm really interested in psychopaths
Under the Skin was sort of about a psychopath - she's an alien but it's that cold chill you get watching this human-looking being acting completely emotionlessly
Saw that in the cinema when it came out - then the Matrix came out like a year later and everyone forgot about it.I put Dark City in my top ten film list because I watched all the way through in and out of a k-hole, I rewatched it the other day because I had no idea why it was in my list didn't remember any thing about it, and it's one of the worst films I've ever seen.
I think I had a problem with the over-eleborateness of the murdering once they had kinda inceptioned in, why didn't they just pick the nearest person and kill them straight away? It seemed to me that if they had power then murder should be really easy. Maybe this was explained, I forget.
Of course that shouldn't affect all the stuff about the main character losing her identity and stuff but (perceived) plot holes can kinda bug the hell out of me. I guess that's a form of pedantry though.
With the main murder the explanation is that it has to look like an "organic" murder, so they pick somebody who has access to the target and who could plausibly have a reason to murder them. Not sure how that applies to the first murder though, it's definitely inconsistent.
I suppose it's one of those high concepts that would fall to pieces quickly if you tugged at the loose threads.
I didn't catch this but a review I've read points out that this tactic of possessing the body of somebody close to the target with which to kill them ties in with the general theme of corporations taking over people's identities, attacking them (semi) metaphorically from the inside.
The idea of being taken over by someone / something else is the most disturbing aspect of it.
The inhumanity and sadism of the assassin is disturbing but less (hate using this word) relatable.
I'd like to know others opinions on what was going on with her exceeding her remit with the murder methods. Why was she driven to be so vicious? Was it her own sadism, her inability to feel, or was it a sort of "method acting", or even that the genuine feelings of the person possessed were coming through?