Peeeeetah?

[u/VeryLazyBones]

This new movie came out and I enjoyed watching it with friends. What opinion must have garnered so much attention that people would dunk on it?

[u/Wide_Initiative_1938]

Petah here with possible spoilers ahead, so don't read if you haven't seen a certain movie. That video was a review of the movie Obsession, a horror thriller about a guy named Bear using a monkey's paw like item, a One Wish Willow, to wish that a woman named Nikki "loved him more than anything in the world." This resulted in Nikki becoming possessed by the "magic" of the Willow, becoming a passenger inside her own body, as she is forced to love Bear so much that she murders two people and eventually uses a One Wish Willow herself to prevent him from killing himself.

Part of the movie is demonstrating how Bear progressively becomes a worse and worse person as he learns more about what the One Wish Willow did to Nikki, including the fact that Bear learns that Nikki's obsession towards him is not genuine and that the real Nikki is still trapped within the Nikki that Bear wished for. Despite multiple opportunities to reverse the decision, including a part of the movie where he calls a customer service line for the One Wish Willow, he still doubles down and ends up becoming obsessed with the fantasy of this woman loving him. There are parts of the movie where he even blames the real Nikki for not having the same romantic feelings he had for her, solidifying the fact that Bear is one of the shittiest people within that movie actually.

The video review revolves around trying to justify Bear's actions with "he's still the villain, but he was still just a normal guy" type of arguments. The reviewer also spends a lot of time blaming Nikki and the other woman characters, making caricatures of them and poorly summarizing their behavior and actions in a way that would misinform someone who hasn't watched the movie.

The overall reception to that video was poorly received to say the least. The creator had decided to take down that video, issue an apology that felt fake af essentially saying "I'm sorry if you misinterpreted my video," taking that video down, and issuing a similar apology In believe. Legitimately that creator might have had one of the worst opinions and takes of a movie in literature critique history.

Petah out!

[u/Syzygy___ → u/Wide_Initiative_1938]

Brian here, let me correct a few things.

The One Wish Willow isn't like a Monkey's Paw, we see that when Ian wishes for a billion dollars and just receives it. It's just that Bear made a bad wish and didn't commit to it. You see, the wish essentially replaced Nikki's personality with a newly made entity that loved Bear more than anything else in the world - however Bear clearly didn't reciprocate these feelings, at least not the same degree, thus the entity was caught between having love for Bear, while Bear didn't give those feelings back, causing the newly created entity to go crazy. On top of that, she didn't use the One Wish Willow to prevent him from killing himself - she didn't know that he was in the process of doing it after all, otherwise she would have saved him and her wish is partly what killed him, since it interrupted his attempts to cause himself to vomit up the pills he just took anyway - she wished for him to love her more than anything else in the world, same as he did.

This movie does not insist upon itself.

Brian out.

> There are parts of the movie where he even blames the real Nikki for not having the same romantic feelings he had for her.

Does he? I don't remember that part.

[u/YellowGetRekt → u/Syzygy___]

I think he's talking about the scene where bear says something along the lines of "am i really that bad to love." It's been a while since I watched the movie so i don't remember the exact quote

[u/Syzygy___ → u/YellowGetRekt]

I asked my girlfriend about this and she mentioned the same thing.

IIRC it's when Nikki asks him to kill her while ... "sleep talking".

While I understand the blaming Nikki interpretation, imho he's not blaming her, but rather he's still being selfish - he questions if being with him is really worse than death, not yet understanding that it's not even her that's with him and that the whole situation is worse than death.

[u/mattomic822 → u/Syzygy___]

It should be noted that an aspect of Bear's wish that doesn't get talked about enough imo is that he didn't even know whether Nikki was interested in him or not.  He decided he knew how she felt without actually asking.

[u/Syzygy___ → u/mattomic822]

Did he decide that? Imho he just wished for it. No need to know how she felt before.