Obsession movie might be most overhyped load of crap I've ever seen!!!
I just watched this movie, and I couldn't understand the hype surrounding it.
I've nothing against the performances of actors, they played brilliantly according to the script and trajectory that this movie was given.
However I believe the theme of this movie is entirely to blame.
It tries to act as a cultural critique but at the same time wrestles with making itself unsettling, and more so tries to frame itself as a psychological horror. It fails here.
If it's a critique, it's such a petty and negligible aspect of the present world that hardly a few and segregated men or women will synchronize with its theme. However, how many people have walked out of the cinema, claiming how unsettling this movie's premises was is a horror in itself; that so many can identify with this specific aspect of male loneliness and toxicity was chilling for me.
However my point is that the critique that this movie circles around is too trifling to be moulded into a motion picture.
A short film of almost 10 minutes would have conveyed the same story and theme with the same intensity without wasting 2 hrs of your time.
Now as we have established (if you agree with me) that it fails as a ground breaking psychological horror, let's move onto something more foundational; the Plot, which I believe you all might help me understand better.
How is Bear's wish of Niki loving him more than anyone else in the world translates into how this movie's plot unfolds for the next 1 hr?? Just how tf it took such an intense form?
Love be it the way bear asked for it, is by no means supposed to take this form. It's totally logically inconsistent that his desire to be loved more than anyone else in the world gets materialised in the form of his girlfriend watching him from the dark corner in the night.
Like what the flying load of crap was that.
How love or even obsessional love materialised into her duct taping the entire door? Or other ventures that Miss Nicky takes in the remaining plot in order to solidify her bond with Mr Bear? Is that even obsessional love? It just made no sense.
It could have been a more constructive love, even a beautiful one but to convey the theme it ruins the entire logic of how this indie adventure unfolded, Pretty rushed here I would say in script writing.
Now many of you will say, Hey She was possessed!!!
Well Bear asked for her to love him not some other entity to take over and get loved. The whole logic of that stupid wish is ignored just so the writer could add the element of horror and stretch the film for two damn hours to surround the narrative they were trying to build was pretty much bonkers and, logically inconsistent for me to digest.
For me the pinnacle of a cultural critique blended with a psychological horror, a deeply unsettling narrative and an ending that'll leave you scarred, traumatized and shattered for days was "SPEAK NO EVIL (DANISH VERSION OFC)".
I think it's an ambitious project for an independent filmmaker, for someone trying to enter such a fast paced world of cinema and to make his mark.
But it devastatingly falls short in conveying a coherent theme and providing you with a psychological horror which it claims for itself.
Excuse my vocabularial and grammatical inconsistencies, if you find any. I'm not a native speaker.