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Obsession..

I cannot believe how this movie is THIS popular or so well-liked :/

I really loved the premise.. I always love when characters are madly psychotically in love, so I really walked into the theatre with lots of hopes.. But dear God, this movie is so so so empty.

The story/dialogues are nothing more than "she's weird, she's weird, oh look, how weird man! I am telling you, she's weird" . They offer nothing more, offer no dimension to the poor girl's inner psyche. I have never seen a movie that falls this flat.

Even the shock-value smiles, screams, creepy chasing, stabbing etc fell flat.. though the actress is quite good..

I myself could've shot a better video on my phone with atleast two more dialogues and without a single drop of blood in the frame.

Queen Margot (1994)

Speaking of psychotic characters, I have fallen in love with Isabelle Adjani :D And this movie was great.. it is set in France, when (I forgot the royalties' names) there is a wedding between Protestant and Catholic royal families, which... goes south.. and it was hell, indeed.. O_O

More than anything, the set design, the costume designs were so beautiful, it couldn't have been represented better. The acting by Isabelle ofcourse is par excellence, watching her has become like a personal catharsis for me. The actor who played her brother, hypochondriac white-livered paranoid King, was excellent as well, I gotta watch more of him!

The contents of the story are ..upsetting, repulsive and shocking on all levels. From the opening scene itself, you feel the suffocating oppression that just snowballs into terrible terrible conspiracies where no one knows who is after whose neck.. Looking back, yes, this was tense.. And, the entire story is rife with back-stabbing, manipulation, oppression, perversions, debauchery, ruthlessness.. Uff, what a drama :D ...I loved it :)

The Drama (2026)

Ahhh the timing of this film is so accurate no.. where people hound one another and personally/socially persecute them for a perceived flaw of character, and it's usually the one with the loudest mouth who does this. But, what I loved the most was the depiction of Robert Pattinson's character's conflicting loops of thoughts that he gets slowly entangled and drowns under the weight of it, bringing down everything. The depiction of his slow neurosis is beautifully depicted :D

It reaches a point where I myself started to question, if someone who had really intrusive thoughts as a child or teenager, could they be really trusted, even if in all the years of your knowing them, they made you feel very safe and loved? And, it reinforces the reality that, even if you spend a lot of time with someone, you just can never know who they are, and who they were..

It's quiet interesting.. and, it was all the more resonant and got me very invested in the story because, in my personal life, I have been in Robert's place myself and I understand his paranoia..

Every scene is good in this movie.. and is beautifully constructed, especially after the "Truth" of Zendaya's teenage years comes to light.. the way they interact with each other and their unspoken feelings that keep getting heavier by the moment.. up until the last last scene.. wow. Loved it.

It is so ironical, that, Zendaya's character is the one with dark secret, that had no actual impact on anyone's life, except that it cost her her hearing in one ear.. but both Robert and the other friend had actually because of their action caused someone actual suffering and pain, even trauma.. and Zendaya's character is the one that is the most dangerous of them all...? I am not saying she was a saint, but, she is the one who didn't actually do anything.. an actually dangerous person wouldn't let the pop-ups on computer, and ear damage hold their action back no?

But, I can understand Robert's fears too... hmmm..

I can go on talking about this movie hehe.. like Robert, we also go in loops thinking about Zendaya's character's "secret".. :D so good :p