i still think it’s so funny how the boys cast spawned two different real life couples. them a couple years back (allegedly) and also jack and claudia who ended up married lol
OBSESSION has been stuck in my head since I watched it.
Not just because it works as horror.
Because it understands something about love that movies usually romanticize or ignore.
Unrequited love is terrifying.
Bear loves Nikki, but he cannot tell her because he knows what most people know deep down: once that truth is out, the relationship changes.
Maybe it becomes something better.
Maybe it dies right there.
That is the fear.
Not rejection. Not really.
Change.
We have all had crushes, fantasies, little emotional fixations we never fully admitted because saying the thing out loud might cost us whatever version of that person we already had.
And OBSESSION taps directly into that.
When Nikki comes to Bear and says the thing he always wanted to hear, the scene works because the audience wants it to be real too. Even knowing something is wrong, you understand why he wants to believe it.
That is what makes the movie so uncomfortable.
It is not just “what if you got what you wanted?”
It is “what if getting what you wanted proved you never understood what you needed?”
Bear wants Nikki. He gets her. Then he realizes the fantasy does not erase the truth.
It just traps him inside it.
That is why OBSESSION is connecting.
It is not only about dating, loneliness, or lust.
It is about the fear that being honest will ruin everything, and the worse fear that getting exactly what you wished for might ruin you too.
To add to this, it's also about how Bear really doesn't seem to really take accountability for his actions.
When he finds out the spell worked, or at the very least suspected it, he had intercourse with her after dinner.
Intercourse that she couldn't consent to. (1/?)
she’s been wolverine for almost a decade now 😭
the fact that she’s still being called x-23 when her name is laura and has mentioned she doesn’t want to be called that
FAKE COMICS FANS
When the tricksy alien foid tries to tease me by snatching my helmet, but then all the air is immediately sucked out of my suit and the water starts boiling out of my body