Watch: Borgman 2013 123movies, Full Movie Online – A priest and his companion hunt silently through the fields, accompanied by a braying dog. They are armed and deadly. Their quarry is Camiel Borgman (Jan Bijvoet), living in military sparseness in an underground den, near companions Ludwig and Pascal. Camiel scrapes out with some difficulty, hitching a ride with a doomed truck driver on a relentless trip to the heart of suburbia. He passes by two odd women, Brenda and Ilonka, with whom he seems to share a history. When a dirty Camiel arrives at the door of artist Marina and media executive Richard’s expansive, designer-chic home, the shifting perceptions of Van Warmerdam’s screenplay begin to displace and disorient the audience. Hallucinogenic elements dot the consciousness as Camiel shifts between the roles of victim and aggressor. He asks for a bath. He toys with Richard’s jealousy. He is viciously beaten up by his cruelly intolerant host and left wounded on the floor. Marina seeks to assuage her guilt by allowing him a space for the night. She treats his wounds. She makes him some food. She begins to deceive her husband. And Camiel Borgman insistently starts to install himself in the house as his dark advances ebb and flow, push and pull. Marina is self-obsessed; Richard a casual racist; they employ a nanny Magot to look after their three small children, the youngest of whom, Isolde, sees Camiel early on and is responsive to his presence. “There is something that surrounds us,” says Marina, fearfully, but she is no longer in control. Large dogs roam casually through the house. There are flashes of something sinister in the garden as Camiel waits, and watches. Soon he is inhabiting Marina’s dreams. “Couldn’t you come back in another capacity?,” she asks him. “I could,” he says, “…but it will have consequences.”.
Plot: An enigmatic vagrant cons himself into the home life of an arrogant upper-class family, turning their lives into a psychological nightmare in the process.
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Intentionally off putting, but worthwhile
When your title character isn’t really a character, it creates some friction between audience and filmmaker. On top of that, you have a tone that seems to straddle a couple of different genres (horror and black comedy), and the film ends up asking a lot of that audience. I think I’ve figured it out, though.The title character is not human, he’s a spirit. When we first see him he’s living in some underground bunker when three men (including a priest fresh off of saying mass) root him out. He escapes and wakes up two others sleeping in small holes in the ground. All three run off. He then goes from house to house, asking for a bath. Most people, obviously, slam the door on him. He simply walks off to the next house. He does eventually come to a house where the husband beats Borgman for implying an acquaintance with his wife. The wife, out of pity after the husband leaves, then invites the hobo looking vagrant in for a bath, a meal, and a place to sleep.
Borgman than takes over. He entrances the couple’s children with stories of a child in the clouds. One of his fellow sprites seduces the au pair living in the house (but doesn’t actually have sex with her). And Borgman invests the wife’s dreams with visions of violence from her husband, whom she immediately attacks after waking up. There’s something interesting about the seduction as well. Borgman’s effects on the wife induces some kind of lust for him within her, but he’s completely uninterested in sex, just like his fellow sprite. When the wife first comes to him, begging for him to touch her, he nonchalantly says, “I’m watching TV.” There’s a complete disinterest in sex from these sprites.
This is really where the odd tone comes into play. Am I supposed to be laughing at this? Scared of it? I wasn’t scared, so I chose the laughter, and rolled with it. The movie became a black comedy in my eyes, and I thoroughly enjoyed the rest of the twisted path.
In the end, after wife has killed husband and wife has met her own end, Borgman and his associates collect the children and au pair and disappear into the woods. There’s no lesson to learn. Borgman was malicious, and the only way to make him turn his sights on you is to invite you into his home. He doesn’t go after the people who slam the doors on his face. He doesn’t just set his sights on the husband who beat him, but he tears apart the wife with the same cool focus.
It’s almost like there is a lesson, and that there is evil in the world that can’t be accommodated. Invite the evil in, treat it kindly, and it will still have no objective other than to destroy you. The only thing to do is to prevent evil from coming into your house.
It’s a fascinating movie that requires some unpacking from the audience, but that’s part of the fun. It’s not great (maybe I’ll change my mind on that over time, though), but the effort that the audience puts to take in what the movie has to offer ends up being worthwhile.
Pleasantly Disturbing
I’m still not quite sure what the film is trying to say, what it is about, it does seem like it is saying something, but in a way that is only logical within the film itself. If that makes any sense. It’s a dark film about some people taking over some other people without getting to know why. It all happens in a designer house and a large garden surrounded by nature, forest. The further you go along in this puzzle (which tends to be quite slow in the first half and more paced in the second half), the more you understand what’s going on but only cause you see a plan being revealed but still not knowing really what the goal is, or the meaning. It never get’s explained fully but this tension is what keeps you watching it. At times brutal, funny and reflective upon society towards certain members who are let’s say, not so fortunate vs the fortunate. In a way, it’s payback time to those who have it all and don’t know what they’ve got. Not sure that covers it all. At the end of the film I did feel a sense of conclusion and awe of it all, not knowing exactly what I just saw, just knowing I liked being played for the duration of this work. Would like to see it again.
Original Language nl
Runtime 1 hr 53 min (113 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Horror, Mystery
Director Alex van Warmerdam
Writer Alex van Warmerdam
Actors Jan Bijvoet, Hadewych Minis, Jeroen Perceval
Country Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark
Awards 13 wins & 22 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa, Cooke S4 Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format SxS Pro
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), ProRes 4:4:4 (1080p/24) (source format)
Printed Film Format Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP)