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Just saw the interview where Curry Barker explained that it's totally possible to get a normal wish from the One Wish Willow, and I love the way they did that so much. The reason Obsession happened isn't because it's trying to twist Bear's desires into something evil. It's not even because he phrased his want wrong. Obsession happened because Bear got his hands on a magic item that could do anything in existence, and chose to force someone to fall in love with him, which is an inherently evil thing to do.

[nessa007]

so i just saw obsession

[oddmawd]

OBSESSION THOUGHTS

The filmmaking choices at the start of Obsession did a fantastic job telegraphing that Bear does not see Nikki as a person. We don't see her on screen until a few scenes into the movie, but she's all Bear will talk about during the opening scenes in which she is conspicuously absent.

The camera centers him and his experiences on-screen while relegating Nikki to off-camera phone calls (and even the first shot we see of her is the back of her head). It's a clear and intentional signal to the viewer that Bear does not see Nikki as a complete person or fully realized human being. Even his fake confession in the first scene didn't cut to the Nikki stand-in until way late.

The camera does not center Nikki, nor does it render Nikki as a three-dimensional person, in order to reflect Bear's perception of her (and his own self-centered view of himself). He doesn't even know Nikki. Not really. Her other friends immediately realized something was wrong with her when she brought up her dad, whom she's not close to, but Bear brushes it aside because he just doesn't care about her as a person.

When he makes his wish and she turns into THAT, 'Nikki' begins channeling Bear's perception of love. She is enacting what he thinks love should look like: hyper-focus on one person to the point of (of course) obsession. That's how he's been treating her, after all, and he considered himself in love her with. But he's not. He's just a creepy little stalker boy, and the framing of the early scenes made sure you knew it (if you were paying attention).

Plus, the fact he does the fake confession scene to a stand-in for Nikki in the first scene tells us everything we need to know about him. Girls are interchangeable. He switches up and starts liking Sarah the minute she starts to express she might have feelings for him. He doesn't actually care about the women in his life. He just wants to be able to fuck one of them, and any one of them will do so long as she's accessible.

[si-ji]

watched obsession and real nikki screaming during that phone call with the customer service guy was The most heartbreaking and scary moment

and it reminded me of ptolemaea so much

[livingursa]

Obsession (2026)

[shortestlovesong]

seen a lot of hate for sarah in obsession but i think she’s an excellent representation of the ways that women can perpetuate misogyny for men and yet become collateral because in the end they are still women

[dad-inside]

The most disquieting part of my experience with Obsession is after watching it, there’s a part of me (that might just be the law student) that is thinking of the ways to word the wish to get a result that doesn’t undermine Nikki’s autonomy and consent.

And like, by even asking that, by focusing on the result of a wish rather than thinking about how bear could have just not been a coward and told Nikki how he felt when she asked him, I am undermining her consent. Even something like “I wish I knew how Nikki felt, and if she would be open to dating me” directly goes against her consent, because she said “if I like someone, you’d never know.”

I think the film is deliberately vague about if Nikki liked him back, but regardless, if she did like him, she didn’t say anything, and I think part of that is bear’s cowardice. In a world where she liked him, he needed to grow up some before she’d entertain a relationship. He’s scared of honesty, scared of loss and the idea of truth preceding it. He’d rather have a fantasy than the real her, who has autonomy and the ability to reject him.

Like there’s something to the very premise of “be careful of [what/who] you wish for” that primes you to think exactly like bear. Really masterful storytelling.

The conceit of wishing deals with the entitlement of these “nice guys” like they want the reward without the risk or the work.

Sorry if I’m rambling, I just want to process my experience of the film

[witchydespoina]

"A love only the branch of a willow tree could conjure...."

[nanuuiycacahuates]

OBSESSION 💔

[nanaluvbug]

"You wished for this."

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[nessa007]

it is infuriating, devastating and heartbreaking how the real nikki breaks through the possession during that particular moment her body is sleeping and asks bear to kill her because she is so drained and exhausted from how the wish has possessed her but he doesn’t end her suffering and in the end kills himself instead while leaving nikki to deal with the horrific trauma and consequences that are all because of him

[acefuruya]

the thing about obsession is that I already knew men were capable of great violence, even the ones that you think you can trust, the ones you feel closest to, the ones you think are good people. at the end of the day, oftentimes, their desire to possess you overrides everything else. to me, the saddest takeaway of the movie is that nikki truly had nobody. all her friends saw her acting oddly, they all saw her break down at the party and try to smash her head in with a bottle. they all saw bear taking advantage of her mental state. and still nobody else stepped in. maybe they didn't think anything was wrong, I don't know, but more likely, it was just easier for them to look the other way and lie to themselves that everything would be okay. maybe tell themselves that she'd turn them away if they did try to help. because to try to help would be to experience discomfort and nobody ever wants to put themselves through that. it made me think of real life and how women in abusive relationships become so isolated - partially due to fault of their abuser, of course, but also because most people have the mindset of "not my business" and "too much trouble". which sure, applies sometimes, but when its your closest friend it IS your business. they could see she was going through something, but its always easier to talk about them behind their back and pretend you've shown concern, that you're a good person for "caring", rather than actually make an effort to help - which most times is ugly and difficult but is the right thing to do.

sadly, sarah and ian's actions rang very true to real life. ian said a few perfunctory words to bear about 'how its wrong' which made no difference at all, but he could pat himself on the back and sleep easy at night after doing so. sarah ended up making it about herself, telling bear "that he didn't deserve nikki putting her troubles on him" (paraphrasing) and suggested that he'd be better off with her, although she knew that nikki didn't have feelings for bear and a blind person could see that something fishy was going on. yet she took the easy way out and pretended she was caring about bear while being unbearably selfish.

maybe they could have helped her - maybe she would have snapped out for a moment and they would have realized what was wrong, maybe they could have forced bear to tell them, maybe they wouldn't have been able to change anything. but it is so sad that they didn't even try.

worse, we know nikki is someone who's there for other people, as evidenced by the dialogue early-on where bear tells Ian she was the one who showed up and took care of him when his grandmother died. yet, when it came down to it, nobody showed up for her. she was failed in every way and this frightens me, because I wonder how many of my friends will look past their own discomfort to come help me if I was ever in a similar situation.

[arbitraryfuck]

thibking about Obsession (2026) and I also kind of feel bad for Wish Nikki...like of course what she did to Real Nikki, Sarah and Ian are awful but it doesn't seem like she had much control over herself either. Whatever she was, she was brought into existence to love Bear and only Bear more than anything else in the world, that's what he asked for. It's like she doesn't understand human connection or behavior but she knows all she wants, no needs, is to get Bear to love her back, and she can't even do that right. She seems entirely miserable throughout the film except for when Bear is good to her and that's because she's quite literally nothing without him. When you consider that without Bear she spent his entire work shift standing there unmoving waiting for him it makes sense she didn't want him to leave and went through the extremes of taping up the door to stop him. She has nothing else, nobody else, hell even Nikki's so called friends all seem to think there is something wrong with her and they don't try to help her they try to help Bear instead. Maybe they did try to talk to her and she wouldn't listen or accept any help, why? She can't do anything but want to be with Bear, no matter what. No matter how much it hurts her and everyone around her. Imagine that being your whole existence...horrifying!!!

[jennfercheck]

the most horrific part of obsession is that it is an allegory for sexual assault and how it ultimately damns the victim and holds them responsible for what happened TO them. bear is nothing short of a rapist. he takes away nikki's autonomy completely and enjoys the "benefits" of what the wish grants him; unlimited access to nikki, her mind, and her body. a man can take advantage of a woman, rape her, and essentially hold her hostage, but he receives almost no social backlash and takes no accountability. nikki is the one left behind. nikki is the one people look at with furrowed brows. nikki is the one who leaves this situation with no friends, no support, and no one to believe her.

[stari-hun]

I’d kill to be a fly on the wall and watch Nikki’s interview with the cops after she calls them and gets released from the hospital.

Nikki would’ve had to be inside and call the cops but way more likely she would’ve ran outside to the first person she called or to a place she knows to beg them to call. The police show up and find a woman covered in blood, and wounds (if they can’t see the glass in her head wound the hospital will inform them later), wearing another woman’s hair, and has strange drawings scribbled all over her as she’s almost incoherent.

They GO to Bear’s house and there’s a man at the front door who’s been executed, and then there’s a body of Sarah enshrined, naked, and has her face beaten beyond recognition with no wounds on her body that aren’t post mortem. A glance at the body shows tattoos that match the living victims scribbles and dna collection is gonna show the hair on her is from the body too later on. Then you have a body which clearly ODed with zero wounds on him, gunpowder on his hands, and was pushed off the couch from someone’s lap before rigor mortis set in.

The later investigation will show that Nikki and Ian are exes before Nikki suddenly and inexplicably became fixated and attached to Bear. She’s telling everyone she’s relapsing, Bear showed no signs of caring about her relapse during, and they all recount her suddenly freaking out and trying to kill herself the last time they all met. Some will even confirm the OD victim had no reaction as it happened besides frowning, and didn’t even look at her. Ian’s phone will confirm text messages from Sarah long after she died, but they’re not gonna be able to tell whether they’re from Nikki or Bear. They’ll also be able to search Sarah’s car and find the acceptance letter from Luther if not in the house if Bear took it with him. They find gunpowder on Nikki AND Bear’s fingers (Bear man handled that damn gun during his suicide pondering). Even if they drug test Nikki to see if she was drugged if she took anything in the last 6 months (unlikely since the whole group stopped doing drugs for at least a year by Sarah’s comment, and she relapses because her friend group is falling apart and she doesn’t think she’s getting into her art college). If that shit DID come back positive it would only help Nikki? I don’t think whether it comes back positive or not matters for the evidence.

The story that paints is Bear wanted Sarah, forced Nikki to play the girlfriend role for her, then when he found out Sarah was going to be leaving to art school he snapped and killed her. He then made Nikki dress up as Sarah and wear her hair and clothes out of regret. Ian came in to confront Bear (about Sarah’s whereabouts or as to where Nikki is and why he’s still keeping her drugged without helping her recover at all), and Bear executed Nikki’s ex to keep her. You can’t tell whether Bear or Ian died first so you have to assume Bear killed Ian then killed himself out of guilt for everything and loss of his love. (Which is also a really good point to the romance trope of “I was here the whole time”).

Now Nikki’s INTERVIEW and account of what happened? That’s gonna be the insane shit. I said in the last what happens after post that Nikki’s going to match all of the baseline descriptions and patterns of a hostage victim. We see touch screens in the film! Criminology started considering the psychology and patterns of killers and victims decades ago! Sarahs body alone and the nature of her being found stripped naked and presented while her cause of death is so insanely violent puts a crime of passion and fixation on the absolute top of the list for what’s going on. Too many people know Nikki and what she’s like to point to her being capable of doing I tout of jealousy for a rival love interest as much as Bear being the socially awkward guy who doesn’t have deep friendships snapping and killing the girl who he talks with the most.

Nikki’s account of things is that she asked her friend Bear who she knew was crushing on her to drive her home. She got in her house then everything went pitch black, she woke up outside and wasn’t acting like herself as she talked to Bear. She blacks out again. She wakes up naked and in BED with Bear and making out. She’s conscious during sex and can’t ask him to stop or do anything against him. At this point she’s mostly blacked out, she regains control at night and begs for Bear to kill her. She HEARS him walk away. Now every time she regains control she tries to kill herself because it’s so miserable to live terrified and flashing in and out of consciousness. Then suddenly she wakes up surrounded by her dead friends with a gun in her hand pointed to her head, and she finally feels full clarity alongside the fear of what’s going on

[brightorangelover]

i have thoughts and feelings. all them towards killing bear.

[puppyboy--butch]

Oughgg having the realization that almost every single "creepy" thing Nikki/"Nikki" does are also things that a lot of rape victims do, specifically ones that a lot of non victims find unpalatable. Acting out, fawning over her abuser, self harm, wetting herself, getting into/writing about dark and taboo topics, et cetera et cetera.

The horror of Obsession is just a woman being a "bad" victim.