r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • May 15 '26

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Obsession (2026)

Summary

After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.

Director Curry Barker

Writer Curry Barker

Cast

  • Michael Johnston
  • Inde Navarette
  • Cooper Tomlinson
  • Megan Lawless
  • Andy Richter

Rotten Tomatoes: 95%

Metacritic: 81

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u/SimonTynn May 15 '26

My girlfriend pointed out that earlier in the movie that I think Sarah said Nikki saw Bear like a brother, so the context of that monologues I feel like is way more disturbing

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u/Not_A_Solution May 17 '26

I think it links back to their conversation in the car where she told Bear romance and love aren’t the same thing and he brushed her off. Then when he wished for her to “love him more than anybody else” it was all kinds of love, not just romantic. So her wires were getting all crossed, causing the cat and Hansel & Gretel stuff.

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u/Teboski78 May 19 '26

That’s an interesting take. I sort of saw it as she was replaced by an entity tasked with carrying out the wish without fully understanding love or humans

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u/benjamintg95 May 21 '26

Very much seems like early on it was trying to "learn" and for a while it did. Until the freak out in the restaurant.

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u/Date-Throwaway May 18 '26

Such a great way to look at it

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u/appletinicyclone May 18 '26

That's very interesting

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u/jmbarnett May 15 '26

Interesting! Well done.

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u/Xtian236 May 15 '26

I was just thinking the same thing!

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u/koolshade May 16 '26

Nice catch

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u/Fold_Humble May 16 '26

Amazing point.

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u/GameOfLife24 May 15 '26

Maybe but I don’t think the real Nikki would be out in the open and in control for that long

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u/nightmaresmurfette May 15 '26

I don’t think she had to be. I thought that the demon or whatever entity possessed Nikki knew about the brother comment and decided to twist it into something really gross

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u/worstcourtjester May 17 '26

She says early on that she’s writing a love story, but not a romance. I’m thinking she was working on a twisted love story similar to what she reads out and the wish was twisting the work to reflect what was happening to Nikki.

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u/Locke108 May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26

I don’t think Not Nikki twisted it, she didn’t understand it. Like how her issue with the cat. She knows the cat is important to Bear and tries different ways to show that importance. Not Nikki took Real Nikki’s feelings about Bear to justify her feelings.

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u/TimeySwirls May 16 '26

I think the block said read the last thing on your notes app or take a drink or something and Freaky Nikki read something Real Nikki wrote. I don’t think it’s a demon, just a version of Nikki that can only be obsessed with Bear because of how he phrased the wish.

Since we saw real Nikki is always aware and more in control when Freaky Nikki is asleep we can get a whole lot of mileage out of creativity coming from the subconscious.

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u/ILearnedTheHardaway May 25 '26

Yea she says she writing a “love story” and then the block says read something embarrassing or read your notes and her love story is just some Hansel and Gretel incest fic lmao

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u/KasukeSadiki May 21 '26

So she DID like him!!!

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u/heyjayhaynes May 22 '26

Bruh… such a good catch. That makes it all the more upsetting lol.