twin peaks: fire walk with me (1992) dir. david lynch // possum (2018) dir. matthew holness
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Mother, Father, what's afoot?
Only Possum, black as soot.
Mother, Father, where to tread?
Far from Possum, and his head.
Here's a bag, now what's inside?
Does he seek or does he hide?
Can you spy him, deep within?
Little Possum, black as sin.
Bag is open, growing wider.
What's inside it, man or spider?
Little boy, don't lose your way.
Possum wants to come and play.
Look at Possum, there he lies.
Children meet his lifeless eyes.
See his nasty legs and tongue.
When he wakens, watch him run.
Wait a while, my little child,
For what is playing dead.
Possum, with his black balloons,
Will eat you up in bed.
Happy valley, painted black,
All the children in a sack.
Wave goodbye to sun and moon.
Say hello to black balloon.
The parcel opened, out it sprang,
The black, long-legged Possum Man.
Children, run! He'll eat and smother,
Any child without a mother.
Possum (2018) by Matthew Holness.
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Possum (2018)
(SPOILERS!!!!)
Can we just talk about the 2018 horror movie Possum for just a moment? It's so underrated that it physically hurts me. And the REASON for it's being so underrated is mainly because people don't pick up and/or understand the metaphors used throughout the movie!
Like the balloons being consumed in smoke, or the bag he's always carrying. Or the puppet "Possum" itself! It is so obvious to me as this movie went on that the smoke was to represent the fire that killed Phillip's parents, the balloons being his childhood innocence corrupted, the bag being the weight of all the trauma and pain he's CONSTANTLY carrying around with this, and the puppet being his uncle, who hurt him as a child all the time.
This movie is underrated, thrilling, and just psychologically thrilling to say the least, and no one seems to understand it. Honestly, that, to me, is such a shame.
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watching Possum to pass the remaining hours because it's close enough to an actual Web episode (arachnid monsters, puppetry, poetry, themes of isolation, motherhood, loss of control, troubled childhood, paranoia and dependence) and it's even one of those rare few horror movies set in England
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