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A theory about the One Wish Willow that I haven't seen anywhere else yet (or maybe it's out there and I've just missed it completely).

We know for sure the OWW works for some and not others (due to the web/forum search Bear does). Maybe some wishes are just too outlandish and can't be fulfilled... OR maybe there's a cost. The common thread for all of the wishes we see come true is death; in every instance there's a life-cost just before it's made. It feels like Sandy the cat was a catalyst to the first wish being fulfilled.

Bears wish = Cat dead
Ian's wish = Sarah dead
Fake Nicki's wish = Ian dead

Whether the death is caused by you or just surrounds you (knowingly or unknowingly) the death being so close to your own spirit could be the reason the One Wish Willow works for some and not others.

The Wish Willow Theory
one wish willow can grant any wish. bear wish was for a human to love him , the wish can create not change anything so it created a new soul that love him more then anyone in the world that was wish nikki and she was childish not immature bcs she dosnt know any human moral she was just born by the wish talking over nikki's information only not the morals.

1. Why Nikki Was So Weird

wish nikki was soo wied just bcs she was created to love someone the most in the world and that person doesnt express his love to her like that , you may have noticed whenever bear said i love you she stopped being aggressive and listened what bear said .

2. Nikki's Wish

In the last when bear eated the pills we heard the wish willow sound and the wish was maded and just after that when bear was about to puke the pills he suddenly stopped and went out that scene was soo great , that was wish nikki making the wish that make bear love me more then anything so they kissed and then bear just died bcs of the pills and the wish of bear got undo .

3. What Happens After the Ending?

ending was crazy all friends died and nikki will go to jail or maybe get billion dollars if she got to know somehow about his friend wish and ran away or just use those money get underground to expose one wish willow.

Build up was fine but it was not groundbreaking like housemaid or verity or 56 days. Like the ending was also so bad like why didn't bear just fucking kill himself and let nikki live her life and honestly I think that bear knew that nikki would never love a loser like him. Honestly, the villain or let's say the most selfish person here was bear himself like he got nikki killed like the real nikki ykwim and then he got his two friends killed like God how much can one be so cruel and self centred. ​​​​​Bear literally was a lard ass. ​

What If: When someone asks a question on a tv show/movie they haven’t watched yet (and you did) give them a fake spoiler, so not only did you not spoil it, you also made their mind more blown from the moment it happene.

I'm not going to read the book. I watched the first episode, and when I saw numbers appear in the air, and for some reason all the stars in the sky explode - but only two people noticed - ala "Lost", I gave up.

But, people keep referring to it, as if it is some opus that defines the meaning of life. So, please just tell me what happens.

Obsession is just the mainstream woman experience

Obsession just show a guy, wanting a woman, and using manipulating way to make her feel like crazy in love

And further than that, Obsession show a guy making a woman crazy and then putting himself of as a victim

Obsession is just the experience of domestic violence, where the woman reacting to gaslighting, rape, and manipulative triggers, lose all her credibility and social life because she is too emotional, because she seem like overdoing it

Basically Nikki is what we would call today an hysteric or borderline

Nikki is the woman that we would take the childrens from, that we would put at the psych ward because she did a crisis out of nowhere, because she has a mental issue, nikki is the woman that we would kill out of "selfdefense"

But Obsession is also a failure, because it put Nikki desilusion before Bear violence

Bear forced a woman to like him, Bear didn’t stop even after seeing his woman being fucking depressed and psychotic, Bear made her lose her sens of reality, of belonging, Bear didn’t listen when she actually expressed that she was no willfully with him, Bear put himself into the victim status even tho he was fully responsable of the situation

There is no grey, there is a man that ruin a woman life

that’s all

The thing is this movie don’t show the reality way more scary than this little wish trope

The reality is that for decades we have been lobotomizing women through the wanting of the husband

The reality is that all the crazy women that was locked in asile because they were dangerous and weirdo were incest and/or conjugal sexual violence victims

The reality is that each time a man kill his gf he uses the crazy theory, that the woman beat him first, that she was confused, filled with anger and violence, even tho he let her agonize to death, or even made her body disappear

The reality is that each time a woman try to defend her kids out of a rapist dad, she lose her kids, because she is a devil woman that put lies in the head of her kids to hurt the husband

The reality is that a feminicide happen most of the time when a woman say no, when a woman say i don’t want to be with you anymore

The reality is that no matter how many women they’ve ruined the life of, men perpetually continue to find new women to break, with this same speech of the crazy ex

The reality is that we still think women lies, that in police investigation department (when a complaint is actually being take care of) we just seek to know if the woman is a liar, even tho doing so just bring absolutely no benefice at all

Bear is just the result of a society that still want to believe that a man, in a case of domestic violence and kill may also be a victim

Because he did it out of love, because he was tortured, because he regreted after it, because he had no choice

So we make a movie about a looser, that look pitiful, that we would take empathy from

Even tho he build the situation himself

I just wanted to say that bear at the start wasnt a bad person who would’ve known a “wish” will be granted yk and Im sure many of us wished for something similar but he didn’t try to fix it he was happy with it that made him a villain and arguably or not arguable a rapist, anyone else in the movie was innocent , bear friend was an a-hole sometimes and that got them both killed if he listened to bear but cant really blame him. 9/10

So many plot holes in the story and characters lacked so much common sense. From Bear actively ignoring the obsession vibes since the duct tape on the door to the party scene where Nikki injures herself to bear committing suicide with a wish willow still in play and a billion dollars that he left at Ian's house too Ian coming back to his place to get killed after not questioning the blood on bear or what he was saying before his wish. I mean the whole movie lacked common sense and completely lacked a good plot. The biggest being the billion dollars. That was the ticket to resetting everything back to normal. Pay someone whatever kind of money to break this one wish willow and follow these exact words "I wish Bears wish was reversed and everything got reset in bears life right before he made the wish but keep the billion dollars but make it bears money and dont replace a dollar thats spent of it, let me use it normally" then proceed to hook up with sarah and happy ever after. 3/10 on the plot 8/10 on the creep factor, 5/10 on the horror.

I’ve been seeing a lot of discussions calling Bear evil or the main villain of the story, but that’s not really how I interpreted his character. To me, he didn’t come across as a villain at all, he felt like a deeply flawed, scared, and desperate person who made a terrible wish out of loneliness.
I actually found myself feeling bad for him. Wanting someone to love you as intensely as you love them is a deeply human feeling, and while his actions were wrong, they seemed driven by desperation rather than malice. In the scene where Nikki is asking him to kill her, what stood out to me wasn't evil intent, but just how utterly desperate he was for reciprocated affection. Seeing so many people completely vilify him made me question if having sympathy for him reflects poorly on my own character, but I really just saw someone completely out of his depth.
Also, regarding the scene many people label as sexual assault: if Bear had fully understood that Nikki was possessed at that moment, then yes, it would unambiguously be assault. But watching it unfold, he seemed completely confused, terrified, and overwhelmed by what was happening rather than acting with predatory intent.
Does anyone else view his character through a more sympathetic lens, or do you strictly see him as the villain? Curious to hear how others interpreted his motives.

I just saw a tik tok which was like, I wish for Nikki to be cracked at siege. After thinking about it I realized that it might bring up a good question? Does any wish about someone else cause them to loose their free will?

In the example, Nikki would still be herself outside of playing siege, but the moment she enters the game she would become “trapped” in the body of herself being cracked at siege. would she then realize she’s trapped in the same way she was in the movie? Maybe Im over thinking this, but curious as to what others think.