Sunday is our third run in the Nottingham Six Pack Challenge, this time it’s the ‘Trentside Trundle 7K’ from Stoke Bardolph. L runs it while I walk with both dogs and she then runs back up the course to meet us. Of course we get lost again but the good news is my knee is at last showing some signs of slight improvement.
A good test of our new TV is the film Possessor which is streamed
from Broadway Cinema via Modern Films. It is directed by David Cronenberg’s son
Brandon and it certainly shows influences of his father’s work.
Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough) is employed by a company that offers remote assassinations. Basically they kidnap and drug someone who has access to the person they want to get rid of, imped a microchip in their skull and then allow one of their staff to take control of their mind and body via super-bluetooth (or something). Just like a computer game.
Tasya is the company’s top assassin but she's been working too hard and needs a break from her job. Too many long hours, killed too many people, you know how it is and she’s begun losing touch with own life. She’s so used to being other people, she has to rehearse being herself before she goes home at nights to her husband and son. She isn’t going to get a break though because her boss (Jennifer Jason Leigh) needs her for the biggest job the Company has ever had.Her next job to take
out John Parse (Sean Bean), the CEO of
some mega company, along with his daughter Ava (Tuppence Middleton)
using her
boyfriend Colin Tate (Christopher Abbott) as the weapon of choice,
making it look like some massive mental breakdown on Colin’s part. This
is at the request of Ava’s step-brother who would gain by inheriting the
business.
Meanwhile a shocked Colin cannot understand why
he’s killed his girlfriend or why he is suddenly getting memories of another
person life, that of Tasya’s. Confused, he kills a friend of his before
tracking down Tasya’s family and confronting her husband at gunpoint, demanding
answers he isn't going to get.