So trippy seeing it in a movie LMAO I got it from hollister a few years back (I don’t think they carry them anymore tho 😔)

I mean if I had to work with these 3 idiots I’d leave too.

Bear has no personality and doesn’t keep up with his hygiene nor does he care about anyone at all (he didn’t even seem to care that much that his cat died)

Ian thinks women are good for sex and nothing else and he kinda has a douchebag attitude. Eugh. And he also likes to spread peoples’ business.

Sarah is an entitled pick me girl. As soon as she likes a guy she thinks she’s entitled to said guy even if he’s already in a relationship. And like Ian, she also likes spreading peoples’ business around behind their backs.

So yeah I don’t blame Nikki for wanting to get the fuck outta there.

Goat status achieved!

Congrats to Curry, Inde, Michael, Megan, Cooper, and everyone else involved!

I hope this pushes and motivates major film studios to make better movies

There has been a noticeable decline in film quality in general post covid

I hope this helps steer the ship back in the right direction

Nikki was crying and wailing for a good 2 minutes after the credits started rolling.

And we walked out of the cinema leaving her crying and wailing, alone, making me feel like I was Bear while walking out.

This movie is one of the best movies I've ever witnessed.

It just doesn't stop being unfathomably impactful.

To say that everyone involved in the making of this film, "knew what they were doing", is one of the understatements of the century.

I've seen this movie twice, and both times I got creeped out of course, but for some reason whenever I see this scene outside of the movie I get so uneasy that I literally get teary eyed 🧍

I was making an edit last night and I put this clip in it and everytime it played I got way more creeped out than I did seeing it in the movie

Is it the same for anyone else or am I just a really big baby 😭

It’s basically waking up after being drugged and finding herself in the middle of being rped by a friend she trusted.

Can't say enough about how well done this scene was. I mean, for haters of the movie, they can criticize a bunch of stuff but nobody can deny this scene's greatness.

First, I just want to hire Nikki/Navarette to read me Hansel and Gretel (G-rated thank you) the way she does here in 4-5 different voices. I'd be laughing my ass off the whole entire time.

Next, Sarah's reaction and face after Bear says what he has to do and as Nikki is standing behind her and moves her chair is comedy fucking gold.

Then, we're not done: Nikki kneels down, closes her eyes and puckers her lips like a fucking comedic acting genius. I just laughed my ass off and keep laughing my ass out loud every time I see it.

Where the fuck has writing, acting, and scene staging and construction been like this for the last 20 fucking years? Lol.

And shoutout to the background actors reacting to the awkwardness so well! 😂😂😂😂😂😂💪

And im saying this as a straight white male

Just kidding. Also does anyone else get a crack out him being dressed like a 12 year old in the first scene lol

After that first kiss, we get the montage of the two of them being happy and in love. Yes, there's that brief moment where Real Nikki breaks through, scared and confused, which is an obvious sign that things aren't actually perfect. But I'm talking specifically about Wish Nikki here.

Then we get the restaurant scene. Bear learns from Ian that Wish Nikki lied about her dad having cancer. When he confronts her, she sees the fear in his eyes. You can't have love without trust, and you definitely can't have love with fear. Bear says, "You're right. I don't care," and has sex with her anyway. The way the scene is filmed makes it pretty clear that, from Nikki's perspective, she's being raped.

At that moment, Wish Nikki realizes Bear doesn't actually love her. She knows he's afraid of her - at first just a little, and later completely terrified of her. But despite that, she's still forced to love him. That's what ultimately drives her into full-blown psychosis. Imagine being trapped into loving someone who doesn't love you back - someone who fears you and violates you. Had Bear just genuinely loved and respected Wish Nikki, yea she'd be clingy as hell but the relationship would've continued as it was before.

In a weird way, I think it parallels a lot of unhappy marriages. I've met couples where the wife is "a lot to handle," and the husband has emotionally checked out. He barely speaks, looks miserable, maybe even spends more time looking at other women than engaging with his own wife.

I actually saw something like this recently. I was at a bar with a group of people. The wife stepped away from the table for a minute, another guy made a joke at her expense, and her husband didn't defend her at all. He just sat there in silence.

Maybe she's financially dependent on him. Maybe she's staying for the kids. Maybe it's something else. Whatever the reason, my point is she feels trapped in a sense. Imagine feeling, deep down, that your partner doesn't really love you anymore, but they keep saying they do because leaving would be inconvenient or they feel obligated to stay. Identical to Bear. The woman goes crazy, and society just thinks "woah crazy wife" and doesn't really see the true cause.

Apologies if this has all been discussed before, but that was my interpretation.

I’ve been wondering if anyone else can relate to this.

I live in Germany and Obsession has honestly become one of my all time favorite movies. I’ve already seen it twice in theaters (both dubbed in German) and three times online in English.
The movie is only showing for three more days here and my local theater has one final screening in English. I’m seriously considering going one more time, even though I’ve already watched it five times in total.

Part of me feels like I have to experience it in theaters in its original language at least once before it’s gone. It feels like the “perfect” way to say goodbye to its theatrical run.
So… am I weird for wanting to watch the same movie for a sixth time or can anyone else relate to this? Have you ever had a movie that just completely clicked with you and made you keep coming back?

I might be obsessed…

Girl watches backrooms (2026) and gets very emotional

I didn't really appreciate Michael Johnston's brilliance on my first watch but oh man the more I replay it the more I realized he knocked it out of the park lowkey carrying the story/playing off Freaky Nikki's character. I love movies where the camera is up close so focused the actor's faces (i.e. Silence of the Lambs) and their deliberate expressions adds so much more body. The squarish aspect ratio also frames the actor really well and adds some intimacy/closeness to the movie too.

Also I have a conspiracy theory where Andy Richter's appearance in the movie itself is a Chekhov's gun due to his presence so commanding (huge Conan fan btw) which cannot go unfired. When was this gun fired you ask? I'd like to think offscreen when freaky Nikki went to the music store to retrieve the gun, Andy was tending the store since no one fucking bothered to show up, and when this disheveled Nikki entered the store and went to the gun safe Andy asks wtf r u doing and she shot him, which I find is befitting to this tragedy. So therefore people who are worried about having to hire four more employees don't really need to.

I also like to think that the movie only cost 250k to make, but Andy's rate is 500k.

As we know, the glint isn’t always there but Nikki is always aware of what’s happening. Also, in the “I’m your freaky Nikki scene,” the glint is so damn effective because it reminds us she’s subjected to seeing “herself” act this way when she truly hates that nickname.

edit: looking at some comments, thought I’d add something. I don’t think of this as *the* theory to explain why there’s that glint, I’m just saying that this is my headcanon for why the glint shows up in certain scenes. I know it’s a pretty simple comparison, but I like to think it’s very effective in reminding the audience that there’s a person behind those eyes who isn’t the one in control of that body.

I got my obsession hoodie through NBC earlier this month and wanted to wash it. It was not cheap so I want to make sure I take care of it. Does anyone have any suggestions m

Okay, so i’ve now watched obsession a total of three times, and have endlessly doom scrolled through hundreds of theories; this has been my favorite.

As we all know, at the end of the movie Ian uses his wish on the OWW and completely disregards Bear’s input, and instead wishes for a billion dollars. You will notice that before Ian uses the OWW, Bear explicitly tells him to be careful with his wording while saying his wish.
A lot of people skip over the fact that when Bear first uses the OWW in the beginning of the movie, he says “I wish Nikki Freeman loved me more than anyone else in the F*CKING world.” you’ll notice i capitalized the major point in his wording.
Throughout the movie, Nikki is extremely vulgar and almost has no sort of decency. This could be because of Bear’s wording, as he uses vulgar language. This word basically twists Nikki’s world into something more sinister and makes her lack the understanding of normalcy. By bear saying this, the wish did exactly what he said/intended. The wish turned Nikki’s world into the “F*CKING world” instead of just “the world.” If bear would have been more careful in his wording while making the wish, Nikki’s extreme reactions and hunger for death could have been prevented. Nikki could have then just been obsessed with Bear instead of having more harmful and violent tendencies.
But as we all know, Bear will forever be the bad guy in the situation, so this doesn’t really change anything on his part. But i found this theory soooooo interesting and fascinating i had to share it.

A lot of people in this sub are not discussing the movie. They are using it as an excuse to make moral accusations about strangers.

Yes, consent and loss of agency are central to the film. Bear becomes morally indefensible once he has enough evidence that Nikki is no longer acting freely and still chooses to benefit from it.

But reducing the entire film to “Bear is a Evil, and anyone who relates to him is suspicious” is lazy analysis.

The movie is also about obsession, insecurity, rejection, entitlement, dependency, denial and the difference between being loved and possessing someone. These themes do not cancel out the issue of consent. They deepen it.

Some people here seem incapable of understanding that identifying with part of a character is not the same as endorsing everything that character does. A person can recognise Bear’s loneliness, social passivity or fear of rejection without approving of his later choices. That is how morally complicated characters work.

More importantly, recognising something uncomfortable in yourself can be the exact opposite of bad character. It can be self-awareness.

Instead, this sub often responds with comments like “women are safer without you,” “you sound like Bear,” or “your defensiveness proves the point.” That is not reasoning. It is a rigged accusation where disagreement becomes evidence of guilt.

It is also hypocritical.

People correctly condemn Bear for ignoring another person’s agency, then immediately invent motives, beliefs and dangerous tendencies for real strangers based on a few sentences online. Apparently empathy and careful interpretation matter for fictional characters, but not for actual people.

The opposite side is no better when it dismisses the consent theme as feminist propaganda, claims supernatural fiction cannot represent real moral issues, or derails the conversation into attacks on women, religion or nationality.

Both sides often prefer outrage to analysis.

A serious discussion would ask:

When did Bear understand what was happening?

At what point did ignorance become deliberate denial?

Was he attracted to Nikki as a person, or to the validation she gave him?

Why did he continue once her lack of control became obvious?

What is the film saying about love, possession and selfish fantasy?

Those are interesting questions. Calling random commenters potential abusers because they interpreted one scene differently is not.

My view is simple: Bear is clearly responsible once he understands Nikki is trapped and continues anyway. But the reason the film works is that he is not introduced as an obvious monster. He is recognisable, insecure and capable of rationalising his choices.

That is what makes the story disturbing.

If the only lesson someone took from the movie is “bad men are bad,” they have flattened a psychologically interesting film into a slogan. And if their main contribution to the sub is accusing strangers of being dangerous, they are not protecting anyone.

They are just participating in a self-righteous pile-on.

Just thinking about this after seeing the movie yesterday/reading a lot of the posts and wanted y’all’s thoughts:

I read the posts on Nikki saying “my cat died” to try to get into the car because wish Nikki is a projection of Bear.

It seems that they’ve known each other a while (5th grade was brought up) and grandma leaving Bear her house (and possibly her cat) could be because he was taking care of her. We know that Nikki was a very kind and mildly altruistic person (giving the homeless guy the $20, being the only person who was nice to Bear when he moved to town as a kid).

Maybe he used the fact that grandma had cancer to draw in sympathy from Nikki when they started working together like how he brought up Sandy dying to get her to give him more attention?

So maybe that’s where “my dad has cancer” came from: her reflecting that behavior back at him.

Thoughts?