Everything you MISSED in Obsession Explained in 9 Minutes

He definitely wasn’t missing the message, he just didn’t care how she felt. Bear wanted to satisfy his selfish desires and when the wish was giving him problems he was more focused on removing the kinks of the wish than freeing nikki……..all for his OBESSION.

If a guy that I only saw as a friend assaulted me I'd probably make him a cat sandwich too

Before people start saying she’s possessed by a demon, I don’t think she is. I believe Bear had a lot of intense emotions of love for Nikki and frustration when he couldn’t tell her anything when he made the wish. And those emotions became her new personality while her old one basically became a passenger in her body. She was witnessing everything this new her was doing and she couldn’t do anything about it. Like the movie Get Out

I like to think of the cat sandwich as more-so Wish Nikki not really understanding what Bear actually likes. At this point, it knows he loves and misses his cat, and it also knows he wants to be a food critic. So, Wish-Nikki decides to combine the two to make him super happy!

in addition to nikki copying sarah i think the scene where she stands on the carpet the entire day and loses control is to copy bear's cat, yet another thing he shows affection for. cats do those types of things when they have separation anxiety and she also mentions something about eating a bug, like a cat would.

Did Curry Barker wish for everyone who watches obsession to become obsessed with it because help is needed here.

After rewatching it, I noticed Fake Nikki never denies that she's not the real one. She goes on crying and screaming "I can't be Nikki", she 100% knew about the wish and it's like she's just doing her job

One detail that really stood out to me was the party scene where Nikki tries to hurt herself with the broken bottle. After thinking about it, I believe it was the real Nikki briefly taking control and desperately trying to escape what was happening to her. I was terrified watching that scene, and it made me feel very uncomfortable. It completely changed how I viewed her character and made the story much darker.

Wild idea: When the customer service operator asks Bear if he would like to cancel his wish and he says “no, I’d just like to… alter it a little.” What if that was a test, and Bear failed? What if the Willow wish couldn’t be altered but it *could* actually be cancelled- IF Bear had learned his lesson and expressed true remorse over his decision. Kinda like the end of Willy Wonka, when Wonka waits for Charlie to hand over the Gobbstopper. If this is true, then Bear didn’t hand it over…. And he sealed his own fate.

If you think about it Ian’s curse of his wish was that he got a billion dollars but never can spend it 😭

Nobody’s talking about Ian’s role in all of this. At the very start of the film, Beat pours his heart out only for Ian to say it was awful and that he should call her Freaky Nikki instead. As Ian has been sleeping with her on and off for two years, it’s shady for him to be giving advice to Bear about professing his feelings to her, and his advice is clearly very bad advice. This makes me think that Ian cares more about Nikki than he lets on, and is deliberately trying to sabotage Bear from the start. Perhaps if Bear had just opened his heart to Nikki then she would have been more open to going on a date and seeing where things went, as it would have been genuine.

One important note here. Bear does not miss the messaging hes getting. He deliberately ignores them. He is indeed evil that way. Purely selfish.

Few points from analysis are obvious (real Nikki is behind , she is asking for death, so its not sthg audience could miss), Bear did not want Sarah… sounds like mistake. Rest is really interesting (Directors voice, tiger eye, Sarah scalp and dress)

The idea that Nikki is not possessed implies that the wish itself has sentience. She literally says that there is something else in there with her The guy on the phone even asked if he wants to talk to her over the phone, implying that she's not in the body at the moment. So either the director is messing with us, or the wish is the thing possessing her.

That frowning face of Nikki creeps me the hell out. This entire movie mad me uncomfortable, but in a good way

One worthy detail I didn’t pick up on til the second time watching was the gun she has at the end it’s randomly mentioned at the bar when bear is interrupted by Ian about the random detail the gun is in a safe at work.

When she’s “sleep talking” and he asks if it’s so bad being with him and she says she’s never been with him, that reveals that all the lovey-dovey stuff (both physical and emotional) he’s been experiencing has always been with this demented entity while she’s trapped in the sunken place… which is disturbing, sad, tragic, and gross all at the same time. Here’s a theory: what if she already had a completely psychotic violent alter (Freaky Nikki) that she had suppressed but the one wish willow reactivated “her”? Remember she says, “I’m your Freaky Nikki”?? Maybe in the past she had gone through intense therapy (maybe was even in a loony bin). Maybe the alter offed her mom which is why she’s estranged from her father. Everybody else’s wishes didn’t seem cursed. Maybe if she didn’t have that alter, things would’ve been fine with Bear’s wish for normal Nikki to love him… but instead he got her alter (Freaky Nikki) who pulled an UNO reverse and suppressed normal Nikki into the sunken place where Freaky Nikki was previously trapped. 🤔🤔🤔 Concerning that, here’s another point: in the beginning Ian suggests to Bear that he should playfully tease her by calling her “Freaky Nikki” (now knowing that Ian & Nikki were secretly hooking up: Ian might have suggested that as sabotage, with the potential foreknowledge that Nikki would absolutely hate that and respond very negatively to it). Anyway, when Bear later on gets nervous and spur of the moment (unsuccessfully) attempts that “negging” technique… it’s then almost immediately after that where Bear makes the wish. He very well may have inadvertently “summoned” her previously suppressed violently psychotic alter (Freaky Nikki) so the wish applied to instead her because she was “steering the ship” at the time. In other words: if Bear hadn’t have done that summoning neg (when he made his wish) then normal Nikki would’ve instead been “behind her mind’s wheel” and everything would’ve worked out fine just like with the other people’s wishes… 🤔 Here’s something else supporting the existing alter theory: the movie’s tagline is, “be careful who you wish for” (as opposed to WHAT you wish for) which linguistically insinuates that the wish isn’t the issue but rather it’s the object of the wish that can potentially land the wisher in hot water. It insinuates that if Bear had’ve cast the wish on a different person (i.e. a “normal” person without whatever Nikki had going on) then everything probably would have been fine. ALSO: Bear’s wish for Nikki to love him more than ANYONE else in the world would therefore technically also be inclusive of her own self: which perhaps thereby facilitated the self harm, lack of care for herself, antagonism toward herself, etc. In light of that point: concerning her own self (or even just one of her “selves”) potentiality getting in the way of the love between she and Bear… just as much as (or potentially even more so) than the variable of Sarah’s jeopardization of their “love”, could potentially be the cause of (or at the very least a huge part of the cause of) her being antagonistic toward her own self/one of her selves… 🤔 So the restaurant scene is weird but nothing compared to the later events (in fact it could just be seen as a “standard girlfriend freak out” that happens in most relationships at some point)… …but that evening after they are “intimate” that’s when the true terror begins (that very night even). This leads me to theorize that perhaps the Freaky Nikki alter was created via S.A. (like MKUltra techniques create alters via S.A.). Maybe it was even originally perpetrated by her father which could also explain their estrangement. Anyway because Bear has taken away her free will volition via the One Wish Willow, this technically makes their intimacy S.A. and if that is indeed what created the Freaky Nikki alter in the first place it could have then triggered/amplified/set into motion the full power of the violently psychotic alter thereby resulting in all the horror that arose from that point forward… It seems like the Freaky Nikki alter had already fully taken over from the moment the wish was made (normal Nikki just periodically slipping through the cracks once in a blue moon comparatively)… my point is: it seems the intimacy/S.A. kicked the Freaky Nikki alter into high gear… this thereby bolstering a connection between that type of event (S.A.) and the Freaky Nikki alter’s existence. His name is Bear because bears are considered cute and cuddly but in actuality, they are one of the most dangerous and brutally vicious beasts in the animal kingdom 😮 During the creepy “watching Bear sleep” scene she says, “I don’t like my dreams” and then she says, “I feel like you don’t love me as much as I do, like it’s not mutual” and she screams “why don’t you love me!!!?” I think when she’s asleep that normal Nikki is confronting Wish/Freaky Nikki and telling her Bear doesn’t love her because he actually loves normal Nikki and not her (which is why she

I think the wish took what love meant to bear at the moment of him saying it, which we see her acting so possesive and obsessed. The wish just tried to imitate what bear felt and meant during that moment. Also, makes one wonder if everything would have turned out way different, if the wish was just love, and not love me more than anything in the world.

I wonder how did Nikki had super speed and super strength tho

When she read her writing out I was like damn she's a good writer. Bear took that future away from her too.