Dark Spark

Indie Filmmaker • Freelance Writer • Twitch Affiliate • Lifelong Gamer • Recreational Puck Stopper • Narrative Nerd • Disney Dork • Artistically Insane • He/Him

[Tolkien World @TolkienWorldG]

Sean Astin, the President of SAG-AFTRA, recently testified before a U.S. House Judiciary subcommittee in support of the bipartisan NO FAKES Act.

The proposed law would protect everyone, not just celebrities, from unauthorised AI-generated replicas of their voice and likeness.

[➤✿ZekeFreek✿ᴴᴰ @ZekeFreek]

Even putting aside the obvious problematic bit, can we talk about how pop culture has gradually perverted Wonka into some kind of PG-rated Jigsaw when the entire point of the original novel was that it was a simple test of character?

[George Alexopoulos @GPrime85]

"How did animators do this?"

Well you see, there's this thing called money. You give it to a bunch of talented artists for a couple years so they can afford stuff like food, and in return, they will produce something called a "movie"

[goma @soigomaa]

obsession was really terrifying bc one man became infatuated with the idea of a woman for years and feels entitled to her and makes a wish that she'll fall in love with him more than anyone else in the entire world
and when his wish comes true he doesn't care that she's not in control of herself while they're together and that it was not consensual. he wanted her to be devoted to him so she could cater to his unfulfilled needs until she became inconvenient.
when she becomes "too much" he wishes for her to be normal and genuinely believes he's the victim in a situation he created.
this movie has me thinking about the larger societal framing of how people view women who are emotionally reactive as dangerous and uncredible, when in reality, they are trying to deal with the trauma of being put in harmful and violent situations by predatory and abusive men.

[lea 🌿 @imahyperlover]

I do think that if you date men, showing them Obsession and asking what they think of it is a good litmus test

[sara @saradotxyz]

Zendaya explains why she keeps her relationship with Tom Holland private

"There is a level of parasocial investment in my personal relationship, which I understand"

"I'm aware that I'm a public person, and so is he, and we've grown up in front of people and done movies where we fall in love with each other"

"But in a lot of ways I'm also a very private person, and I try my best to have things for myself and for him as well"

"We do our best to not hide ourselves from the world, but to preserve things for ourselves, so we can maintain that joy within ourselves and our family"

[Dark Spark @Xdark_sparkX]

@ManuelDraur "Intent does not matter, only consequence."

Sarcasm does not absolve him of accountability or responsibility for what comes from his actions. He could've just as easily sarcastically wished to not be a coward, which he probably would have if he wasn't a selfish jackass.

[Dark Spark @Xdark_sparkX]

Bear is the one Obsessed, so much so that he willingly stripped a friend's autonomy away from her to get what he wanted. "Desperate for love", yet he ignored Sarah right in front of him.

Bear is a self-centered piece of shit. Nikki is a victim of his cowardice. The-fucking-end.

[Kvng @Samthrillz]

Everyone cheering for Nikki at the end of Obsession is completely ignoring the actual psychology of the movie.
Yes, Bear made a desperate, messed-up mistake with the wish. Nobody is defending that. But his intent was just a lonely guy wanting someone to love him. Nikki’s reaction, though? That wasn't self-defense or cosmic justice. She turned into a literal, calculated monster.
She systematically stripped away his friends, his sanity, and his entire life, slow-torturing him until he felt his only escape was that agonizing, painful death in the bathroom. Bear realized he blew it and wanted to fix it, but Nikki showed zero human empathy. She used his mistake as a blank check to be a complete psychopath. Nikki isn't the victim here, she’s the real predator of the film.

[Daykerpriest🐉 @Daykerpriest]

Any wish that tries to force or manufacture someone else’s feelings is already messing with their autonomy by design. The ‘safest’ version of this wish would’ve been something that only affected Bear, like giving him the courage to actually talk to her or the self-worth to handle rejection. You can’t shortcut real connection without it eventually biting you in the ass.

[Dark Spark @Xdark_sparkX]

@Maybach1168887 I think the point is that we SHOULD NOT accept that this "just happens when a guy happens upon a magic twig". We should not absolve selfish people of accountability. Both his later actions AND his wish are the problem, the wish itself revealed how he would handle things later.

[Dark Spark @Xdark_sparkX]

@ManuelDraur That argument falls apart when Nikki begs for Bear to kill her, and he says "am I really that awful?" This is after he hears her screams on the help line. For someone whose "joke" went awry, he sure seems unbothered about fixing it until it's too late.

[Dark Spark @Xdark_sparkX]

@reallouiethegod Interpretive discussion and discourse is the literal lifeblood of good storytelling. It is praising Curry Barker's creative genius, not admonishing it. But keep thinking people 'didn't watch the movie' because their narrative interpretation doesn't align with yours, I guess.

[Dark Spark @Xdark_sparkX]

@ManuelDraur What about the wish's wording: "I wish Nikki loved me more than anyone else in the world" is 'accidental' in the disregard of Nikki's autonomy? I'll wait.

[Dark Spark @Xdark_sparkX]

@reallouiethegod @Maybach1168887 Never said that, what I said was he's a selfish piece of shit. Which he is. He doesn't wish for her to confess her feelings about him, he wishes to an outcome HE wants without knowing if she wants that too.

"Intent does not matter, only consequence." -Kratos, God of War Ragnarök

[Dark Spark @Xdark_sparkX]

@Maybach1168887 ...Except he does. He doesn't wish for himself to stop being a coward, or be a better man. He asks it to remove his uncertainty and risk by making HER behavior match what HE wants. If he knows own behavior is the cause of his unhappiness, he still pawns it off on her changing.

[Sethy @Brizksie]

"Together, we could Recreate the film Obsession-"

[codename unknown autistic girl @SUPERBLOWFLY]

the problem is that bear doesn't really 'love' nikki

[Sara Clements @mildredsfierce2]

Finally saw OBSESSION and it really lived up to the hype. Inde Navarrette delivers one of the best performances of the year. It takes a lot to spook me with horror these days but she is absolutely *terrifying*. I really have to give props to the lighting too. The way they keep her in the shadows a lot really elevated the performance and tone.

[ryn ⟡ @frogojo_]

bear defenders make me laugh because how are you gonna blame nikki for something BEAR wished for? and he always got defensive whenever his friends brought up nikki's obsession with him, he didnt want to fix shit. idgaf how lonely he was are, he's a selfish coward

[Dark Spark @Xdark_sparkX]

Then why didn't he make a wish that made him not act like a complete chicken shit if it was sarcastic? Talking about media literacy, and whiffing at the insight of Bear's entitlement coming through via WHAT he wished for is wild. "Fix my cowardice? Nah, take her autonomy."🙃

[Colin 🍔 @sentrapilot]

No one who has seen this movie seems to understand that he did not realize the wish magic was actually real and broke the wish stick sarcastically