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Normally I don't watch many Hollywood movies but the hype surrounding obsession made me watch that movie yesterday. Needless to say, I was impressed. Mainly because the director managed to keep us hooked till the end just using the script and the lead actor. The movie was made with shoestring budget and went on to create a rampage over box office worldwide. It gives hope to young directors that the script will always be the king and you don't need Shankar's budget to tell a story.

Enough of praises but the fundamental difference I felt with this script viz-a-viz some directors's I admire in Malayalam movie is this movie is close ended, reinforces the fantasy element, ie the make-one-wish willow and it's as black and white as that. A Malayalam director would have made it open ended (and like the director of manichitrathazhu/Chandramukhi) and kept audience guessing whether nikky was really under the spell of witchcraft or shd has bipolar kind of syndrome

The billion-dollar cash scene made it impossible to think of any other conclusion.

Wish that scene wasn't there (and the hotline scene where real nikky screams for help).

It would have made the script open ended.

Those who think it's really the work of the willow would have been right

Those who look for a scientific reasoning (nikky having mental disorder) would have been correct too

One movie I admired in this aspect is 'nanpagal nerathu mayakkam'

Open ended scripts will always be intelligent ones that will keep the audience discussing abt the movie and add to the hype surrounding that.

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