Platinum_Parker

Self made gamer, game critic & movie guru. PoP!ulation Correspondent and avid blogger!
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[VIKARE @vikare06]

This is insane.
This 2006 Coca Cola Ad directed by Nagi Noda, with music by Jack White, aired just once. This is all shot on film in a single take with no CGI, all the snapshots are all real similar actors standing still.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Netherlands hides massive trash containers underground so their streets stay spotless

[Platinum_Parker @detrun77]

@MountainMike92 @David_Da_Boss The wish doesn't prove Bear is irredeemable.
It proves that his idea of love is fundamentally warped.
The horror of Obsession is that the universe says:
"Okay. Let's see what happens if you get exactly what you think you want."

[Platinum_Parker @detrun77]

@MountainMike92 @David_Da_Boss That's an incredibly selfish wish because it's entirely about changing her, not changing him.
I still don't know if I'd call him a full-on villain at that exact moment, but I absolutely agree that the movie is telling us something ugly about him long before the curse takes effect

[Platinum_Parker @detrun77]

@MountainMike92 @David_Da_Boss The wish isn't born out of despair.
It's the culmination of a worldview,
"I want Nikki."
Not:
"I want to be worthy of Nikki."
Not,
"I want the courage to tell Nikki how I feel."
Just:
"I want Nikki to love me more than anything in the world."

[Platinum_Parker @detrun77]

@MountainMike92 @David_Da_Boss Fair enough
By the time Bear makes the wish, the movie has already shown us multiple times that his mind revolves around Nikki. He's not having a random bad night. This isn't some spur-of-the-moment crush.

[Platinum_Parker @detrun77]

@MountainMike92 @David_Da_Boss That's the test.
If he immediately tries to undo it, he's tragic.
If he hesitates because he likes being loved this way, he's the villain.
And that's exactly what happens.
The wish tells us who Bear is
His response to the consequences tells us what kind of person he chooses to be

[Platinum_Parker @detrun77]

@MountainMike92 @David_Da_Boss The reason I don't call him a villain immediately is because the movie gives him a moral crossroads. Early on, he's a lonely, entitled guy fantasizing about being loved. Later, he's confronted with the possibility that Nikki's autonomy has been stolen because of him.

[Platinum_Parker @detrun77]

@MountainMike92 @David_Da_Boss And yes, Bear was already obsessed with Nikki. The movie makes that clear. The wish didn't create the obsession.
But obsession isn't the same as villainy.

[Platinum_Parker @detrun77]

@MountainMike92 @David_Da_Boss I don't buy the "he should've been blackout drunk" argument.
Bear doesn't need to be wasted for the wish to be impulsive. Plenty of people say selfish, embarrassing things stone sober that they never expect to come true.

[Platinum_Parker @detrun77]

@MountainMike92 @David_Da_Boss The tragedy is that later on, when he starts realizing it is real and Nikki is suffering because of it, he doesn't immediately undo it.

That's where the moral failure is.

Not the drunken wish.

The hesitation to let her go.

[Platinum_Parker @detrun77]

@aderayo_xo1 And honestly, I think that's a much more disturbing idea than possession. It means the monster wasn't hiding in the toy.
The monster was hiding in the wish.

[Platinum_Parker @detrun77]

@aderayo_xo1 Wish Nikki isn't an intruder. She's Nikki as filtered through Bear's fantasy.
That's why the customer service call is so horrifying.
The real Nikki isn't fighting a demon.
She's fighting the version of herself Bear asked for.

[Platinum_Parker @detrun77]

@aderayo_xo1 Because possession is:
"A foreign entity took over."
But Obsession seems to be saying:
"Bear's wish distorted Nikki into a version of herself whose entire identity revolves around him."

[Platinum_Parker @detrun77]

@aderayo_xo1 If the writer, director, and actress have all said Nikki isn't possessed, then this scene doesn't suddenly stop making sense. It just means we're looking at something more psychological or metaphysical.

[Platinum_Parker @detrun77]

@_filmcrave So basically the whole cast from Nosferatu.

[Digital / Home Video Releases @VODDrops]

Obsession (2026)

Inde Navarrette, Michael Johnston, Cooper Tomlinson

- on digital June 30th