ObsessedwTheHorrors

Obsession also won runner-up for best screenplay and Curry Barker runner-up for best director!

Sincerely believe Obsession could do crazy work during awards season, headlined by Inde. Generational performance.

This is Bear KNOWING that he did something fucked up, and lying about it afterwards to save face. He shows this even more when he interprets another conversation with Nikki as her accusing him (guilty minds). This was before Ian brought up molly or anything, so Bear assumed Nikki was just having a crisis, and took advantage of her.

There's such a wild escalation as wish Nikki (correctly) assumes Bear is pulling away from her and she starts acting more erratically, which Bear reacts poorly to, which causes her to escalate further, etc.

That night after dinner is "watching you sleep," and the next day is the cat sandwich + Nikki waiting at the door all day long. Right after that is the party scene, which leads to the car scene to finish that second night. Then back to the crystal shop, and back to Ian's then Bear's house for the finale, which I'm iffy on, but I think happens during early/late morning?

Honestly, everything screams no except for the cast/crew interviews and the specific shot of Nikki's reaction to Bear saying he thinks they're really good friends. I always thought she looked a little disappointed, though that could be at Bear being a coward rather than disappointment at a relationship that would never be. Can't wait to watch that specific shot one thousand times lol.

I love the ambiguity, especially with the old "do one take where Nikki likes Bear and one where she doesn't" trick. But I think arguing whether it matters misses the point of the movie completely. Bear never cares what Nikki wants, and even in a world where he did tell her the truth here, I think he'd eventually use a wish to change her.

-During their montage, I assumed the AI image was made by Bear. But I'm pretty sure it said something about "wearing your skin" which wish Nikki does do later in the movie. This is probably because she saw Bear using AI for something else, so she wanted to form ANY connection.

-After watching-him-sleep night, Nikki looks like she's reading... but the book is upside down... idk how I missed that, but she's clearly just acting normal to appease Bear after freaking him out so much the night before.

Saying you want the "controller" so you can "play" with a woman who is quite LITERALLY being controlled, who we see be assaulted on screen, who cries for help and even begs for death to free herself is... pretty fuckin gross man!

I get that it's a meme or a joke, but there are memes and jokes that don't do that. Maybe use a less disgusting one!

(Adding what I'm talking about below for reference) Looking for this image, I saw SO many in reference to Obsession specifically. What the fuck

Leaving her silhouette the only consistent thing you can see, with her eyes occasionally shining like predator's eyes reflecting light. Simple and I love it.

It made her more unnerving and showed us what happened to her early on: the Nikki after the wish was something Nikki-shaped, but that lacked any detail or personality that Nikki had. She's ultimately hollow, driven by the goal of 'loving' Bear, by any means necessary, including manipulating him and eventually killing others.

And Bear spends the whole scene worrying about his own ego and absolving himself of responsibility for anything that happened the night before, under the impression Nikki was on drugs. Not worried about her, of course, just worried about covering his own ass.

Ian is short and dismissive to her. Shoots down all the advice she gives to Bear. Came off as reallyyy rude and put me off of his character for the entire movie lmfao (I'm so sorry Cooper Tomlinson but I cannot abide anything less than kindness to waitstaff). He used her and got rid of her like an object, just like he did with Nikki (supposedly, I'm really iffy on a lot of the off screen stuff in this movie lol).

Bear, doesn't really see a person either. He sees an outlet for venting to or projecting his obsession. Just like he never knows the real Nikki, Ruthie (and likely every other woman/person) is an idea of a person, that he smiles at and speaks politely to, but he never humanizes.

Until Inde Navarrette said in an interview- wish Nikki ate the rest of the cat herself. Girl is... going through something... so it's hard to blame her for acting odd but uhh. Babe HUH

I *LOVE* how much there is to think about with Obsession, and how much is up to interpretation, but honestly getting some more definite answers from cast/crew is also really cool. And horrifying.