Possessor. A Question of Agency.

This 2020 tastefully gore-tastic feature was Directed by Brandon Cronenberg, David Cronenberg's son. Brandon certainly follows in his father's footsteps in a contemporary way. IMDB describes the film as such: Possessor follows an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people's bodies - ultimately driving them to commit assassinations for high-paying clients. I had to watch it twice to let it fully soak in.
This meticulously crafted sci-fi horror film is quite beautiful frame by frame. You'll get a good dose of blood, sex, and violence. I always enjoy a flick in which you can pause it at any point, and the still is good enough to be a printed photograph. That's what we call a motion picture hunny! 
Andrea Riseborough's performance and aesthetic is fabulously eerie, numbing, and downright uncomfortable. I haven't seen an actress transform themselves into something so haggard since Charlize Theron in Monster. Can I get a, "Hey girl!", for Jennifer Jason Leigh. Miss Leigh came in hot with her controlling bitch boss pill popping persona while rubbing salt in the wound all the way to the end. Christopher Abbott, always easy on the eyes, served us up some lost soulless sad sap action, struggling to gain control during the whole plot. Gabrielle Graham was the real show stopper in the very beginning. The bright red blood on her stark white platform tennis shoes was shocking. I squealed the first time I saw it. I liked how women were the ones who held the reins throughout the story.
Possessor begs the questions, "Who is being possessed?" & "What is possession?". The storyline is heavily dosed with themes of capitalism's affects on people, classism/class division, life as a performance, gender identity, sexuality, agency, subliminal effects, escapism, surveillance, and surviving day to day life. If you watch closely, you will also notice people randomly vaping throughout the film. If you've ever vaped, you know those tiny gadgets can control the hell out of you . I love seeing vapes because it seriously puts us in time and place, like seeing a Motorola Razr on screen. 
I don't want to give spoilers on this one, so I'll say to pay close attention to everyone's assigned job and how it affects them and the other characters. Pay close attention to how they are treating and communicating with each other. Question who has agency and how they have it. After watching, I realize I have allowed myself to be possessed so many times, whether it was consensual or not. When do I lose it and gain it? When am I me and when am I a different person? How many of us are actually able to be completely free from being possessed?