notice how it’s ‘confessions II’ & not ‘confessions on a dance floor II’, while the OG album was an upbeat, escapist love letter to disco & club culture, confession II has more introspective & memoir themes with a broader sonic palette unpacking her 5-decade career & life story
@madonnaxdaily Or 1-6 are when you slam the MDMA (or your illicit stimulant of choice), tracks 7-11 are when you are absolutely flying and 12-16 are you comedown and reflection.
Confessions II tracks 1-6 is when you arrive to the club and dance, tracks 7-11 is when the alcohol hits and you get lost to the trippy music, and tracks 12-16 is when reality slowly comes back
The Jenga scene is far deeper than people give it credit for.
I think the real Nikki wrote the Hansel and Gretel passage. The incest imagery isn’t there for shock, it’s symbolic of someone she saw as family suddenly becoming a romantic figure after the wish. It’s one of the film’s saddest and most overlooked moments. 💔 #obsession
What breaks my heart most in #obsession is knowing Nikki kept leaving Bear clues because she truly believed he would realize it wasn’t really her and choose to save her rather than continue taking advantage of her.
The scariest part in the movie for me. Knowing that the real Nikki is still inside, conscious and can't do anything about it because of the spell is so disturbing. Like I can't even imagine not being able to control your own body.
What makes Obsession even more tragic is the fact that Nikki kept leaving Bear signs because she truly believed he would save her.
She was trapped inside a version of herself that wasn’t real, yet fragments of the real Nikki kept breaking through, desperately trying to reach him.
But instead of seeing those warnings for what they were, Bear kept choosing the fantasy over the woman he claimed to love.
That’s why the scariest part of #Obsession was not the wish. It was realizing Nikki was still in there, waiting for someone to care enough to save her.