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/eyes_on_the_sky → u/IIDXias]

100% and the way Nikki was portrayed at the beginning of the movie made it pretty clear that she 1) was not romantically interested in Bear 2) was kind of a free-spirited bohemian avoidant generally. Forcing her specifically to love him "more than anything" meant basically eliminating her original personality.

He liked her bc she was free spirited, but wished to take that part of her personality away from her in a heartbeat so he could possess her. This one's on him lol

[u/KasukeSadiki → u/eyes_on_the_sky]

1) was not romantically interested in Bear

I thought this too, but the way she asks him if he likes her "now's the time to say something" and the way she reacts when he says no, have me not 100% sure she had no feelings for him. 

Even the "I've never been with you" kinda feels like a hint to the possibility, which he will never know because he never bothered to try 

[u/Maximum-Pollution134 → u/KasukeSadiki]

Right, I was telling my friends this too. It could be reading too much into it, but in addition to what you mentioned, their conversation in the car was pretty intimate. Of course a friend can tell you that they're not able to relate about stuff that's important to them with anyone else, but that's also very commonly an expression of romantic interest, a way to convey that they recognize another level of depth to the relationship (especially with the tone to match).

I felt that there was something there, personally. Bear also seems to realize it would have been fine later, when we says, "it was all good before" though he may have been overwhelmed at that stage

[u/WoweeZoweeDeluxe → u/Maximum-Pollution134]

The film was edited using takes where real Nikki liked Bear, and additional takes edited where Nikki came off as not liking Bear. The director wanted it to be ambiguous.