Please help me get onboard with Obsession
**Sorry in advance for the long post**
I missed Obsession in the cinema, but saw that it was getting great reviews across the board, including the Sard boyz, so I decided to rent it. I managed to avoid trailers and didn't read any reviews, so went in semi-blind.
I'm about 25 mins in to the movie and... Well... I can't stand the protagonist 'Bear'. To the point that I don't want to watch the rest of the film, because I don't like the idea of spending another hour in his snivelling company.
I get that having a chest-thumping, overly-confident, alpha-male douche is not what you want in a protagonist, in an dramatic indie horror like this. However, in my opinion, having an indecisive, insecure, introverted weakling as your protagonist is just as undesirable.
**Minor spoilers ahead**
The film opens with him practising a speech where he tells her how much he loves her. That he sees/hears her in everything, even in the music he listens to. He's loved her for years, and he'd like to be more than just friends. The film is very clear that she is the most important thing in his life. BUT....
The way he self-sabotages his opportunities to tell her he likes her, even after she straight-up asks him if he likes her, is (in my opinion) just unrealistically feeble and passive. After he makes the wish, and she's "under the spell", she asks if he wants to come in to her home. Another excellent opportunity to tell her but he declines. I understand that he thinks her behaviour is odd, but the character doesn't know that an evil spell is causing this behaviour, so it doesn't make sense that he wouldn't use this as another opportunity to tell her he likes her and then leave respectfully. After he declines to go in to her place, she asks to go to his home, and he very reluctantly agrees, even though he doesn't know that evil forces are at work, and this would be another good opportunity to tell her he likes her. They get to his place and she asks him to stay with her in the spare room bed. Again, he reluctantly agrees, even though this should be a dream-come-true, given how much he loves her. She removes her top and he spins around in total fear, like he's just witnessed some horrific incident. I think this moment/shot is played for laughs, but I just rolled my eyes.
That's where I stopped watching.
Is this how the rest of the film is? Bear being spineless and meek? Am I supposed to like this character? I don't mind a shy, underdog protagonist, but Bear's introverted persona is bordering on absurd.
Please help me understand, or convince me that I shouldn't waste £15 by not watching the rest of the film.