⋆｡°✩ MOVIE REVIEW: Obsession (2026) ✩°｡⋆

5 / 5 ★★★★★

"A love only the branch of a Willow Tree could conjure..."

"I'll be anything you want me to be..."

What a phenomenal movie, honestly.

First 20 minutes of the movie, and Bear already got me fucked up. This whole movie was him failing, or more intentionally not communicating properly when he knows there's opportunity to do so. Calling her "freaky Nikki" after acknowledging that was a nickname she did not like.

He makes constant decisions knowing the consequences will be bad, and then acts surprised when those bad things happen.

I think the crystal necklace falling down the drain, and the tiger's eye being given to Bear was a very nice touch, foreshadowing how Nikki's two forms of protection against herself have been lost and opens up room for her to be manipulated.

This poor girl is having an out-of-body experience this whole movie because Bear was the one to make a stupid decision and wish her whole life away, using the item he bought with the intention to gift to her. He was too scared to meet her halfway, after she asked upfront whether he liked her. He chose to lie, he chose to use up the item meant for her, and he chose to make a selfish wish without a care of what she would want.

"I don't think I could live without you..."

I found the lack of positive, or even any kind of emotional, expressions on Nikki's face during a moment that would be called intimacy for any other couple was also a very nice detail to include. It really speaks to how Not-Nikki she was the whole time during the relationship.

I had thought beforehand that Ian was somewhat valid in saying that from his POV, it looks like Nikki needed help and Bear was taking advantage of her. And while that still was somewhat true from the outsiders' POV, he was also revealed to be a pretty shitty friend if the FWB thing with Nikki while he knew Bear liked her was true.

I do think that the drinking game did not need to turn out how it did. And not because "it was Nikki's fault" but because bear could have chosen to drink instead of entertaining the "kiss the person on your left prompt."

The whole movie, I think the most accurate way to describe bear was that he was being a major selfish pussy. He couldn't be honest, and most importantly he could not take Nikki's pleas to heart. Not even while she was laying there, finally as herself, begging and pleading to be let go of and put out of her misery.

Bear continued to say that Nikki's dad is dying, which he knows isn't true, just so that everyone else could stop saying there's a bad vibe about their sudden relationship. Just so that the truth does not come out.

"This is all your fault; Sarah is your fault. You wanted this, you wished for this." 

True!!! Bear wished for all of this, and is upset that he got The Yandere Experience.

Even in the very end. Making Ian wish that HE never made a wish. Not wishing that Nikki was normal again. The wish he waned was about HIM. He overdosed so that HE wouldn't have to deal with the rest of the consequences.

I feel so bad for Nikki, becoming a twisted shell of who she used to be just because of this stupid man. And then being left the only one alive over a situation that was not HER fault in the slightest.

Her actor did an amazing job at snapping between crazy attached and apologetic sweet, as well as panicked realization.

The ending was perfect, I couldn't think up a better ending (other than maybe Bear needing to live and face his selfishness fully, but I understand and am not mad at all that his life ended the way it did. It really fits his character.)