This past week, I watched the movie Weapons, which
had an actress win an Oscar for best supporting actress. It is available to
watch on HBO Max, I highly recommend you do, this post will contain slight
spoilers but nothing too significant.
This movie was about the disappearance of a classroom of
children, except one child who was left behind. The movie follows different
view points of specific characters then ties their stories together at the
climax of the film. The main antagonist is Aunt Gladys played by Amy Madigan
(She won an Oscar for her performance), Aunt Gladys is revealed to be a witch
who uses her power to control and drain their energy from people. The movie
connects to multiple topics we covered within class, it has underlying themes of
the anti-Christ and concepts of possession through evil influence. After we
recently viewed The Possession, I noticed the similarities between the two
films; they both portray victims falling under evil spirits' control through
the use of strange objects and possessed victims being used to feed energy to
the evil spirit.
Overall, it is a very unique film that maintains the viewers attention the entire time and I highly recommend taking the time to watch it.
I actually saw this film in the theater, and I would also recommend that everyone in this class see it. You brought up similarities the film has to The Possession, but personally, I didn't think the two were that alike. The Possession focuses a lot of its runtime to explaining the demonic forces and their origins in Hasidic Judaism. Whereas Weapons is much more focused on exploring how the disappearance of the kids affects the town and the demonic forces which Gladys possesses are not tied to any specific religious sect.
ReplyDeleteI saw this movie shortly after it came out! I feel like the difference between this movie and the possession is that in this movie, you see the actual person who is casting the spell and what she needs/does to do it. While in the possession, we don,t ever directly see the entity that is cuasing the thing inside the box to take over the little girl.
ReplyDeleteI saw this movie with my sister and while it was an interesting idea I did not like it very much. I do like how you tied it back to the possession movie, that was something I didn't think about.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the ambiguity of the truth of Aunt Gladys' power. It's true that she's a witch, but many had the interpretation that it was some kind of parasite that allowed her to exert control over the children. Many believe this due to the plant she was always carrying around.
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