Big ass rant cuz movies like Obsession always get my demon bitch side going, so here we are.
Why the fuck are y'all even arguing whether or not Nikki had feelings for Bear, when in the end the only difference it would make is show you what an ever bigger spineless idiot Bear really is?
"But the actress confirmed-!"
The actress said she thinks Nikki has a crush and would be open to explore a relationship if that man wasn't such a fucking coward.
It's really so hard to understand that having a crush doesn't automatically mean the immediate existence of romantic feelings?
Gods, you people sound like Bear when he doesn't understand the difference between "love story" and "romance".
While you can say Obsession is a [horror] movie about a love story, you sure as hell can't say it's about romance too.
And that's because “romance” implies a happy ending, “love story” does not.
[Personally, the Hansel & Gretel incest poem got me firmly cemented in the no romantic feelings side.]
I think the reason why the entity can't act like the real Nikki is because he's not really in love with her, he's just obsessed with the idea he has of Nikki (the father thing proves he doesn't know her that well either) and wish!Nikki is that idea in the flesh.
Nikki is the real victim here.
Wish!Nikki is right when she tells him that what's happening is all because of him and his wish.
Everything that's happening is because he's a spineless, selfish coward.
Bear could be excused just at the start, cuz nobody would think that shit could really work.
But as the story progresses?
He knows, hell he can see that something isn't right, and he doesn't give a single fuck cuz he finally has the object of his desires!
"But he tried to cancel the wish to save her!"
Lol no, he fucking did not!
He only did something when he realised his stupid wish was fucking up is life.
He didn't do jack shit when Nikki was clearly acting like a psycho.
When the guy on the phone asked him if he wanted to cancel the wish (before he knew he couldn't) what did he answer? "No, I just want to change it a bit".
We can see real Nikki freaking out/being disgusted every time she regains control for a couple of seconds!
When the real Nikki asks him to kill her, what does he say? “What's so bad about loving me?”
Hell, she clearly tells him she never was with him as in "all this time you been fucking the entity, not me"!
What more do you need to understand that you can't excuse him by saying "poor Bear" since he continues to act like nothing is wrong nearly 'till the end while Nikki, poor Nikki, is a rape victim throughout the entire movie?
[That's why she bawls her eyes out at the end. When Bear is dying she's like "what did you do?" as in "I love you, why did you kill yourself?" because the wish is still active and she is still possessed. But the moment he dies you can hear the switch and that “what did you do?” takes on a totally different meaning. What she's really asking him is "what did you do to me?"]
To me, it was clear from the beginning of the movie that Bear is the classic "woe is me, nobody wants me good guy" who thinks only about himself and takes no responsibility for his actions.
Who's at fault for the cat's death?
The poor cat or the idiot who left the pill bottle lying around, clearly open?
Nikki tells him that she wants to leave her job because she's not happy and wants to focus on her writing, and his first reaction is "but what about me?"
Nikki gives him the opportunity to talk about his feelings, she clearly asks him if he likes her and his dumbass says nope we're just good friends!
He could have wished for the courage to declare his feelings but no!
That cowardly ass was so terrified of rejection that not only did he wish for Nikki to love him, but he wished she would love him more than anything in the world!
