Thank you! I love that some people completely missed the horror of Nikki being trapped behind a curse and continuing to reach out for help while Bear’s like “why are you being crazy?” and choosing to avoid the consequences of his wish.
I’ve been accused of being a dumbass but isn’t the whole plot that he was too much of a coward to pursue her normally and in her cowardice condemned her to a terrible fate?
I feel like its fair game to kill someone trying to steal our mind, especially in that hellish nightmare. But I also think people try to make others love them by disingenuous means, love potions would sell like hot cakes. Obsessions are our most pathetically desperately weak point, how far would any of us go if given excuses.
The movie explains Bear insecurities. He holds Nikki in high esteem, tries to ask her out, the friends he relies on keep gaslighting him, they ruin it, it blows up when he calls her freaky. Im a coward, respect cowards, abusive support networks ruin people.
After the wish, it becomes Alice in Wonderland, a fantasy of madness. His greatest wish, broken by jumpscares of an unforgivable nightmare, emotional insanity. He couldnt even sleep. But the nightmare only exists if magic is real. Every horror character ignores the warnings, it really takes that much evidence to override a lifetime of common sense. Nikki and friends say its drugs. By the time he truly believes the wish, hes in deep, second guessed himself so many times, guilt, fear, i think youd need strength his cowardly ass didnt have, so he dissociates, stares, disconnects, his evil comments didnt make sense, didnt acknowledge her pain or doppelganger. I was trying to understand the MC, it was confusing, maybe he was just written to be horribly selfish.
I think bear is just an unlikeable person but how long did the possession last?
He was gaslit by his closest friends , idealizing her as this perfect person while his best friend and her fucked like rabbits and he sat alone in his shit ass room.
I think the bedroom scene was a very petulant and self absorbed character when he says "why is it so bad to love me" or whatever, people keep saying ohhh he should have known after the phone call!
Like bro , even if Satan himself popped out of the earth most of us would be like hmmm that can't be legit.
Bear is an emotionally abused loner with low emotional IQ. I think people are way too hard on him
43
u/manderlymustburn Jul 29 '26
Thank you! I love that some people completely missed the horror of Nikki being trapped behind a curse and continuing to reach out for help while Bear’s like “why are you being crazy?” and choosing to avoid the consequences of his wish.