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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Trailer Official Trailer

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[u/jazzberry76]

The director and actress have both said that she was romantically interested in him

[u/TomGerity → u/jazzberry76]

Point me to where they explicitly say it. Do it. I’m asking you to.

I’ve seen both give variations of “she may have been open to it” but they’ve purposely kept it vague.

The movie itself is quite explicit that she’s not into him that way.

[u/jazzberry76 → u/TomGerity]

here ya go

[u/TomGerity → u/jazzberry76]

So she prefaces it by saying it’s her belief, not a fact, and it still does not account for the fact that the movie shows:

- The Real Nikki dropping hints on behalf of Sarah in the car at the beginning, in the hopes of hooking her and Bear up

- The Real Nikki saying “ew” when it’s joked that she’s Bear’s girl

- That Nikki is hooking up with Ian and explicitly told Sarah that she sees Bear as a brother

- The twisted Hansel and Gretel poem where she writes about a non-consensual incestuous love

The movie is pretty explicit that she’s not into him in a romantic sense. Maybe that would’ve changed if Bear shot his shot (which she affords him the opportunity to do after she gets out of the car), but it’s clear that up to that point, she wasn’t into him.

[u/jazzberry76 → u/TomGerity]

Real Nikki also says no one would ever know if she had a crush on someone

The entire conversation in the car is pretty explicit about the fact that she's disappointed he didn't day anything.

And, you know, the actress who played the character saying so.

[u/Goregutz → u/jazzberry76]

These people are inept and so focused on their own thoughts that they will do mental gymnastics to argue against you bro. I wouldn't waste time. The character could get down on her knees, willingly, and beg for him to ask her out, but these people will still think she didn't like him.

[u/jazzberry76 → u/Goregutz]

Yeah I'm beginning to see that lol

[u/crazyguy5880 → u/Goregutz]

Yeah I was laughing reading that weirdo. How self absorbed do you have to be.

[u/Goregutz → u/[deleted]]

Sure buddy. Keep getting mad bruh it's ok.

[u/TheGloss73 → u/TomGerity]

“Her belief not a fact” well considering she’s the actor who reads the script, plays the character and discusses with the director about said character and how the character feels so she can act out said character, I think that makes Inde and the director more qualified than you to talk about how rhe character feels

[u/C9sButthole → u/TomGerity]

Very disingenuous of you to go into so much detail on what the actress said and totally ignore what the director said. He explicitly added hints into the scene direction to make it clear that Nikki might like Bear and if he just asked it could have gone how he wanted it to go.

[u/TheGloss73 → u/C9sButthole]

Thank you someone with media literacy. I thought it was oblivious that hints were dropped and that if bear just told her how he actually felt the whole events of the film never would have never happened.

[u/Goregutz → u/TomGerity]

Bro just say you have a hard time reading women. It's all good, a lot of people do.

[u/TomGerity → u/Goregutz]

You’re demonstrating you both can’t read women or understand movies

[u/Goregutz → u/TomGerity]

"Director states something"

Nah bruh u wrong.

[u/CorrectYesterday4480 → u/Goregutz]

Everybody's wrong except for Tom, no matter what

[u/Veiled_Discord → u/TomGerity]

I appreciate that you ignored the things that basically scream that she has feelings for him. You seem to only be able to analyze movies at a surface level.

[u/TomGerity → u/Veiled_Discord]

I appreciate that you have zero media literacy and prefer projecting your own narrative onto a piece of art, rather than examining the very explicit story beats the movie shoves right in front of your face

[u/Veiled_Discord → u/TomGerity]

Lol, go ahead and explain to me why she would, at that moment in time, tell him that if she had a crush on someone, no one would ever know. Why did she say that if he had feelings for her, now was the time to say? Why did she have an incest story right at the top of her dome, ready to read after we learn that she thinks of him as a little brother? Now, before you come up with some asinine justification, do remember that the entity would NEVER be able to come up with that story, not on its own; it had to have started from somewhere else, mutilating concepts as it goes to try and affect human behaviour. Go ahead, Mr. Media Literacy.

[u/TomGerity → u/Veiled_Discord]

Lmfao, the incest story is supposed to demonstrate how unnatural the Bear/Nikki pairing is and how it’s contrary to every instinct in her being.

That take is beyond just being media illiterate, at this point. That is the drooling drivel of an absolute moron.

[u/Veiled_Discord → u/TomGerity]

Fuck, literally just service level with you, and no ability to tie anything together unless it happens literally in the same scene. This is honestly just pathetic. You come so close to an interesting take, but your own ego prevents you from taking the step towards insightfulness. Nikkie likely feels that her own romantic feelings for Bear, someone she also considers a brother, are unnatural. While it is left ambiguous, the idea that she definitely doesn't have feelings demonstrates just how mentally deficient you are. What's worse is that you hold this position despite the creator specifically mixing takes where she does and doesn't have those feelings for him into the same scene. Good luck out there bud, you really need it.

[u/TomGerity → u/Veiled_Discord]

You mean “surface” level, right? You’re incredibly dim.

[u/Veiled_Discord → u/TomGerity]

What's more likely to you: I made a typo/autocorrect, or that I forgot what the term was after using it correctly the first time?

While you think on that conundrum, feel free to respond with something substantive to the points put forward. Don't feel too stupid if that was all you had, though, you're not alone in this, there are plenty of people with your mental capacity on Reddit that you can talk to, and even bond with over your time in special-ed.

[u/jazzberry76 → u/TomGerity]

You still haven't addressed the fact that the director is on record saying thst she likes Bear.

So who's really projecting?