just watched obsession and i have major thoughts around this movie
one thing that sticks out to me in particular is that bear decided to end his own life instead of nikki’s even after she asked him to. he was selfish to the end. he killed himself first, leaving the entity posessing nikki to grieve that she could never please him, and leaving nikki with the guilt of what she did because she was the one who was forced to kill her friends, to do things she never would have done. he kills himself and leaves nikki with nothing but grief. he doesn’t ever face that what he did is his fault, and never decides that he needs to atone.
no, he shoves it all onto her. he lets her live, lets her suffer watching him die and lets her live so she can cradle his corpse, surrounded by every mistake she was shoved into makigg by against her will. ian’s body is in that room. sarah’s is in the next room over.
and the body of the offender is the one nikki is forced to carry even though she never wanted any of this. she has to carry all the problems he had that she never wanted to begin with, just because he couldn’t accept that she didn’t want him back.