MAJOR SPOILER WARNING! I’m going to be going balls deep into this movie so be warned, ALSO TRIGGER WARNING for sexual assault
Today I went and saw Obsession with my good friend Liam
This movie is about this guy called Bear who has a crush on this girl called Nikki. He’s hopelessly in love with her but way too nervous to tell her how he feels. You can tell early on in the movie that she doesn’t reciprocate his feelings and sees him as just a friend. In an attempt to tell her how he feels, Bear buys a gift for her at this spiritual type of shop which ends up selling a trinket called the One Wish Willow. Basically, you can make a wish before breaking the middle and it comes true. He chickens out of telling her how she feels and makes instead uses the wish to make Nikki love him more than anyone else in the entire world.
So, because this wish works, Nikki now loves him
and they start dating. It’s very clearly abrupt to their friends as to how they’re both now together because Nikki wasn’t showing any interest in him prior.
And, here’s the part where I lost all my sympathy for Bear. He is KNOWINGLY (attempting to downplay) making this girl love him. Nikki has become an almost alternate reality version of herself because she didn’t like him before the wish. When they first kissed was where we first saw the ACTUAL Nikki break free from this, I want to say CURSE, and starts screaming and pushing away from him because this isn’t something she would do. But quickly acts like it’s fine and brought back in because of the wish.
What bothers me is that this man is practically forcing this woman to be with him not only emotionally but sexually. This is not her. At this point he’s starting to notice the weird shit she’s doing and he would’ve known that this is because of the wish and not because she’s just THAT crazy. And so, in blunt terms, this guy is essentially r*ping this girl. Again, he KNOWS that she isn’t really all there but because he likes her and wants her to like him, he doesn’t attempt to break the curse or fix the wish or ANYTHING.
I have no sympathy for Bear. I do not feel bad for him in any way. And the reason I say this is because I’m not 100% this is what the film was trying to portray. Regardless, I’m hoping that the general public are in agreement that he is not the hero of this story.
Anyway, so more weird shit happens and Nikki is going fucking crazy but there’s a really important scene that happens that I wanted to talk about. After far too long, Bear FINALLY calls up the number to the people that make the One Wish Willow and basically is told there’s no way to alter the wish and if he wants the wish to end he or she will have to die. Because this guy is an incel beta cuck and has ruined this girls life, he still tries to do anything else to try and fix this so he can still have her.
But the scene I wanted to talk about was when Bear was attempting to sneak out of his apartment to see his friend Sarah. When he’s slowly walking out of the bed to not wake Nikki, Nikki tells him to kill her. The REAL Nikki has broken free again to tell him to end it. She is watching herself have a relationship with this guy she DOES NOT WANT TO BE WITH. And because of that she sees that death is the only option for her. Truly sad stuff, broke my heart.
I won’t spoil the whole movie but I guess I just needed to vent about how fucked up this guy is.
Overall though, I really liked this movie. The actors did incredible and Inde Navarrette who played Nikki is fucking incredible in this. Genuinely such a great performance and she was definitely the best thing about this movie.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ out of ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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