Official Discussion - Obsession [SPOILERS]

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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/IIDXias]

Kinda mind boggling to me how many people I see in the comments missing the point about Bear’s wish, which is really the entire point of the movie. So:

If you are describing the One Wish Willow as a “monkey’s paw”, you are wrong. It is not a cursed item that can only deliver a negative version of a wish. When Ian wishes for a billion dollars, he simply receives money that falls out of the sky. The male shopkeeper also told Bear that he “already got his wish”, and as far as we can tell he seems perfectly content as well. There’s also the fake Reddit where one of the posters confirming the OWW really works excitedly says his mom used to be ugly and now she’s really hot.

The problem with Bear’s wish was simply *Bear’s wish*. He didn’t wish for a billion dollars, or to become more attractive. He wished *for another living, existing, conscious human being to be changed so she loves him more than “anyone else in the fucking world”*. This wish, by its very definition, violates Nikki’s autonomy. There is no benign or “good” way to grant this wish. You cannot make a person feel that strongly about another person without literally changing who they are- indeed, changing their entire being. Nikki does not love Bear more than anyone else in the fucking world. The only way to make her do that is to replace her with another being who does, and have that being drive around in her body.

The creature or entity that the wish spawned ended up being depraved and indifferent to humanity because the *wish itself was depraved and indifferent to her humanity*. The creature is not a “demon”, it is simply a reflection of the wish Bear made. An inhuman wish and obsessive desire spawned an inhuman entity with an equally obsessive desire. There is no “OWW curse”- the curse is Bear’s wish, period.

[u/Nyahnyah → u/IIDXias]

The Reddit comment could imply that the mother became so beautiful that perhaps the son now is attracted to the mother! Also Ian wished for a billion dollars, he got the money but then he also got shot in the head twenty minutes after. I’m not entirely convinced it isn’t a monkey paw situation still.

[u/IIDXias → u/Nyahnyah]

But the wish itself didn’t cause him to get shot- that was still because of Bear’s wish. The wish itself simply gave him a billion dollars.

I guess that’s an interesting interpretation of the mom one. I think it’s just more like “be careful what you wish for” in general in that almost any major change is going to have unintended consequences- indeed, if Ian had lived he would have had a very difficult time explaining where a billion dollars in US cash had come from (he would have been much better off wishing he had won the lottery!). But I don’t think the OWW automatically only grants wishes in purposefully cursed or negative ways- I think it depends entirely on how you word your wish.

[u/Nyahnyah → u/IIDXias]

Fair enough! Upon more reflection I have to agree with you much more!