dear my lover

Seriously I will spoil the ending

At the end of Obsession we see Nikki using the one wish willow. As it's wish!Nikki making the wish, not actual Nikki, we can assume the wish is something along the lines of 'I wish Bear loved me as much as I love him'.

We then see wish!Nikki and wish!Bear approach each other and I swear I thought they were going to devour each other. Which would've made the disturbing Hansel and Gretal poem from earlier in the movie some great forshadowing.

I was genuinely a bit disappointed with the actual ending: Bear dies from the pills he didn't manage to throw up before being taken over by wish!Bear, and actual Nikki gets back control of her body just before wish!Nikki commits suicide.

It's not a bad ending, I like that it references Romeo and Juliet, I of course didn't *want* Nikki to die, but I don't think she'll have much of a life after this, considering she's the only survivor and there is plenty of proof and witnesses to say she was acting psychotic.

I just like the ending of Bear and Nikki now being equally obsessed with each other, both wanting to be close and keep close and that leading to them literally devouring each other.

I like how disturbing that idea is and in that I think it fits the movie better, I also like that it leaves the entire friendship group decimated, just because one man couldn't handle the mere chance of rejection.

And while I don't mind open endings, the way the original ending is open ended feels more like the writers weren't intending it to be. Maybe it would've worked better if the ending shot was of Nikki with the gun to her head, and the audience is left to wonder whether the wish' hold on Nikki will break in time, before wish!Nikki pulls the trigger.