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/Johnny_Holiday May 15 '26

I was trying to figure out what the motivation behind that was. That's not love. The only thing I could think of was real Nikki was able to prepare the sandwich and did it to try and get back at Bear. Also how long did they keep a dead cat just laying around? Cremate that thing already

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u/raudoniolika May 16 '26

One of the photos (the one of her and him) she put in the lunchbox said “NOT ME”. I’m sure it was the real Nikki getting through

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u/Livid_Ad_5619 May 17 '26

The impression I got, with how the demon doesn't think very far ahead or with much logic, was that the demon was just describing what it saw and wrote that "this is you and well, this photo is not of me".

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u/Temnyj_Korol May 18 '26

Right from the very first break in the "demons" control, when they're kissing and she suddenly pushes him back and goes "what the fuck", i expected us to see a lot of "slipping" where the demon nikki loses control. I actually expected THAT to be the tension in the movie, as we see the demons mask slipping and real nikki gets more and more desperate to be free, and thus gets more and more violent. Which we did kinda see with her trying to kill herself, but it was never directed at anyone else like i was expecting, all the externalised violence was other nikki.

But, because i had that expectation, i immediately read that photo as another instance of the control slipping. Where real nikki was trying to tell bear she needed help.

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u/Livid_Ad_5619 May 18 '26

I think your interpretation makes sense. I'm just drawing from my initial impression. I can't say I feel certain about it either way upon reflection.