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nikki begging bear to kill her and all he does is ask whats so bad about being with him. one of the most nauseating scenes ive ever witnessed

girlskissinger

Bear is one of the most selfish men in cinema. He has little reaction to Nikki stabbing herself, he destroys Nikki's life instead of just asking her out, his selfishness results in the death of his two best friends, and kills himself and let's Nikki deal with the consequences of HIS ACTIONS instead of giving Nikki she wants.

nessa007

so i just saw obsession

alysmond

"I was really obsessed with this Romeo and Juliet ending, actually. We shot both; we shot this ending that you see in the movie, and we shot the ending where she ends it all. We had shot a ton of different versions of the official ending, the one that's in the script, the one that I was excited about, and I was like, Okay, we'll do one ending where Nikki survives, but we'll just do one take of it, and then we'll move on. You see her coming to this realization that she's alive again, and she's looking around the room, and she looks so disturbed, and I just remember my dad and multiple people around me being like, 'Dude, I think it's way more disturbing if she just survives this thing.' I was like, 'Ah, you're right.' And so we switched it." – Curry Barker

elephantlovemedleys

i can honestly go on, and on about how much i love the one day i’ll fly away sequence and how it is both hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time.

it gives insight to satine's feelings, about what she wants and how she hopes to find a way to make it all come true for her despite the life she's lived. a few scenes earlier while she's getting ready and dressed up to (supposedly) meet the duke with marie's help, we see satine tell her this:

and she proceeds to look at the bird locked in the cage when she exclaims that one day she would "fly away, fly away from here!" and she's filled with hope and excitement that one way or another it would eventually happen.

by the time we get to the actual part where the song is heavily focused and featured (which in my case is like her equivalent of part of your world, an 'I Want!' anthem) we see how through and through satine sings what she feels: i follow the night / can't stand the light -> this may pertain to being a 'creature of the underworld', since at the start of the film the moulin rouge was described as a 'kingdom of night time pleasures' and the imagery of her being in the shadows that i think symbolises her place in life as a dancer/courtesan/entertainer but truly wants to fulfill her dream as an actress before she takes her steps and we get to fully see her in the light right when we get 'when will i begin to live again'

an interesting note is when she sings the 'leave all this to yesterday' line, it pans right through the chains of the elephant zooming into the windmill and christian's garret. we see christian and satine seemingly glance back and forth at each other (?) from afar throughout this scene, which is fairly more obvious once we get to 'what would your love do for me / when will love be through with me?' like she was singing to him, we can see that she's also looking at him there though perhaps I guess she was just thinking out loud and not completely directly asking him these thoughts, and instead wondering to herself if she should let him into her life and what he could bring to it, and maybe he can be part of her dream to 'fly away.'

once she reaches the top of the elephant, it feels like a relief when she belts out 'one day I'll fly away!' for satine and the audience watching. you feel her need and want to leave this place for something better, and to chase what she was always dreaming of and it shows how constraining it was for her to have just been there for years and years, she screams to the world how she wants to fly away and be free and allow herself to follow her heart.

later on towards the latter part of the movie, we get a reprise of this song right after the moment zidler finally tells her that she was dying. just when she was on the very brink of actually getting away from the rouge and planning to go forth to run away with christian, and it's filled with grief and agony, satine knowing that she was sick and that sooner or later her illness was going to take its last toll on her, and to make things worse is when zidler makes her have to go convince christian that she didn't love him (to prevent him from being killed by the duke) the very last shot we see of the reprise 'today's the day when dreaming ends' shows us satine looking at the bird in a cage, just like what she did previously but this time, knowing that the dream to 'fly, fly away!' one that was so close to happening, had been abrupt.

tigerlilly-777

Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge (2001)

sp4rklequ33n

rob and sheri moon zombie !!

ho1000c

The Devil's Rejects

nessa007

Moments where the real Nikki breaks through the wish OBSESSION (2026) Dir. Curry Barker

slayerbuffy

I wanna date and shop and hang out and save the world from unspeakable demons. You know, I want to do girly stuff.

Sarah Michelle Gellar as BUFFY SUMMERS in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997 — 2003).

djotime

Obsession 2026, dir. Curry Barker

dearalliedoll

i fucking hate bear so much oh my god. i could go on for hours about him. “what’s so bad about being with me? 🥺” oh shut the fuck up you’re not the victim here. i HATEE men who claim that “oh, i’m just such a nice guy!” and then they’re the devil’s spawn.

and i see people (mostly men) defending him too like “oh he didn’t think the wish would come true!” stop defending some rapist mandchild, his intentions were clearly evil when he made it. and then later on he had the opportunity to undo it, but he didn’t. instead he was bitching and moaning and crying “just be nikki!”