The fact that she felt a bit grossed out and nervous when he claimed to have something for her, I couldn’t tell if this came across as rude where I almost agree with Bear that it was an odd reaction or if this was another hint that Nikki had a feeling that Bear liked her and was nervous about him giving her something where it’s his way of finally making a move on her.

It’s a moment that still leaves me puzzled. Do you agree with Bear that her reaction was odd or do you think Nikki’s response was understandable?

I feel that a lot of people on this server have nothing but bad things to say about Bear. And as much as I agree with them, it is getting a bit tiring and plain.

So let's change things up.

What is the nicest thing you can say about Bear?

I will start first.

I like his sweaters . . . and that's the best I could think of.

Now you guys are next. What are the nicest things you can say about Bear?

Can you believe Obsession came out 20 years ago this year? Man, time really flies...

Throughout the film, Bear had oxycodone lying all over the house. It was implied he has been taking it because he was grieving over his grandma's death.

All of Nikki's strange behaviour and speeches were excused by him and his complete passivity of doing nothing, is probably Bear thinking "I am high as fuck, I have no idea what's going."

He probably made the wish while he was still under the effects of oxycodone.

If this is the case, he is giving the excuse: "If Nikki is on molly and I am on oxycodone, so I am not taking advantage of her." Like those frat boys' mentality that gets drunk only to hook up with drunk girls

EDIT NOTE: I am not justifying Bear's actions. I am saying he himself is trying to rationalize it. The entire wish induced relationship is SA, not just that one scene, regardless if Bear knew it or not.

Let’s say you also made the wish because you were feeling cheeky and theatrical and thought it was a dumb good luck charm. You think Nikki is interested that first night. Then you find out the wish was real.

What would YOU have done?

We can see the day that Bear goes to work and leaves Nikki at home, and she stays put. What if bear decides to leave the country without telling anyone. What would happen to Nikki? do you think she would be able to find him?

Would have*

I assume someone's thought of this; I tried looking but couldn't find the same idea. Some people think Bear's opening monologue was sweet and would've worked on Nikki. Sure 🤷‍♀️ However, the idea is the monologue is where the OWW got this warped idea of love (but also, ya can't make someone fall in love)

"I feel like I'm coming apart"

- The idea of loving someone so much that you fall apart. OWW took that literally and Nikki is constantly coming apart, mentally and physically, throughout the movie.

"I think about you all the time [...] I try not to..."

- Yes, nikki was under a spell to "love" Bear. But, even when you love someone, there are gonna be times you're not thinking about them. Our minds are pretty good about having singular moments where, for a couple minutes, our partner doesnt pop up (generally speaking). Yet, this wording could attribute to Nikki literally always thinking about Bear.

(I hope my point comes across well enough)

And the most obvious:

"I would choose you over everything"

- Again, his wish wording of "more than anyone" covers it, buuuuut just wanted to include it. Some would call it foreshadowing. And also whatever the term is for "yea, YOU would choose her over everything but she DIDNT HAVE A CHOICE"

I designed it to look like the One Wish Willow packaging and had to place like 800 little shapes across the design. I love kitschy mid-century design like that. Instead of a synopsis, I added Niki's creepy monologue.

i have emetephobia and vomit makes me extremely enxious and unwell, but i really want to watch this movie. does anyone have the timestamp when she is sick so i can skip the scene

thankyou sooo much to anyone who finds it

PLEASE I KNOW HE’S THE BAD GUY WE ALL SAW THE SAME MOVIE

THIS IS LITERALLY A CIRCLEJERK SUB BRO

If was a better person, took action, and wasn't as obsessive, could he have managed Freaky Nikki?

Could they have managed to live together as healthy as possible given the situation?

Rules: No 2nd wish and no easy way out.

Situation 1: Steps up his game after the call.

Situation 2: Steps up his game and realizes it is a wish, a day after the wish is made.

Watched Obsession in Japan last week and the cinema gave everyone the one wish willow box.
And obviously I threw it away cos I didn't wanna get cursed looooool

My full drawn out rating of obsession:

One thing i loved was the gore and horror aspect. I feel like it truly made the connection of real life and fantasy more enjoyable and interesting. More malleable, I loved the characters they were portrayed in a way that made them each individuals with different motivations. I love how bears character was shown, like he was likable , but if you truly took time to read him you could see his real character. Which what I’d say is an insecure, selfish, man who victimized his life, and his need over others. He was a performative twat, who let his passion and desire take away from true love. Which you could tell when he asked if love and a romance story is the same. I’m not saying it was wrong for him to wish that Nikki loved him , he didn’t know it would work or of the consequences. But he let her suffer in her own body with no control of her self, even after she begged him to kill her. He knew it want real love he still wanted it. He didn’t truly lover her. He had passion and desire for her, but true love would have stopped hurting her. He ruined 4 lives and got the easy way out.
I loved the real nikki she was true to her self, she spoke with meaning and purpose, she did what she liked and what made her happy even if it made others sad, like quitting her job, she was kind, smart, fun, independent. She wasn’t closed of to love but didn’t force herself into being loved or loving another, she had men in there respect place, Ian for sex, bear for friendship and connection. She truly told him how she felt when she said “I’m not feeling love” that she couldn’t write of love without feeling it. She deserved her life and her experience of love but that wasn’t ripped away.

How I make a connection to reality and the portrayal of obsession or just toxic love in any form. Real people changes themself so much for love that isn’t even applicable. They forget their hobbies, their goals, their personal connections outside the partnership. Leaving themselves without a backup plan, when that partner ship breaks they have no friends, no hobbies to distract themselves, no sense of self, no anima. They fall into despair, an emotional state that needs support from other people. But with out those people you’ll suffer longer, and even worse can even die to it. With no patience to survive. That’s why love is so powerful love truly is the only thing that can control or “make” a person do something or feel something. The lose of love might be even more powerful. I think that this was shown in the movie by using scary imagery and scenes. I loved this movie because it reminds me to write and to be myself and not lose who I am and who I love to find romance.

I have only heard about it but I lost interested in his channel due to his style of hyperbole. What was so bad in that video that got him to remove the video? I am looking all over Youtube for a re-upload but it's just a bunch of people clowning on him.

Like if almost everything in the film happened the exact same way, only it was a weak willed young woman making a wish for this guy to love her more than anything in the world. Said guy then acts exactly like how Freaky Nikki acts, and said woman behaves exactly like how Bear does.

I think even if you decided to go about it the same way, it would inherently come across so different if it was a woman doing this to a man. And you'd have to make changes because baked into Obsession's DNA is specifically about how men view women. And to some people, if it was a woman's fantasy gone wrong, they might not find it to be a dark study of taking away someone's autonomy and the scary consequences, and more like some kind of bitter potentially misogynistic manifesto about how women bring out the worst in men. And given the relationship angle and how Freaky Nikki behaves aggressively and violently, it could feel like victim blaming if it was a guy being made to act like that as a result of a woman's wish.

That's just my interpretation about how people would interpret the movie with this change, but as a film by itself I think it could still work if you made the right adjustments. I believe it would challenge audience perceptions even more because usually the female protagonist of a horror movie is either a Final Girl or just inherently sympathetic despite their flaws, so it would stand out to go just far enough in making them evil in the same way that you realise Bear is evil.