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- 21 de Oct, 2024
yes, personally i really like obsession, but this part in particular being pushed and kind of supported by the cast/director just seems some combo of retarded or honestly (horror)bly wrong execution. obsessions main trump cards are; inde navarrette, who went from bluntly acting in varying levels of shit to pulling off a james mcavoy in split-esque carry performance, the makeup team who had very skillfull techniques of doing shit like painting fake eyes on inde's eyelids so it gave the appearance of eyes still but no shine in the dark for some of the real freaky shadow work etc (some of them may have been entitled but honestly they were fucked over in terms of contribution to reward/acknowledgement), and the sound team with the ost, sound effects and editing, sound design etc. inde, makeup and sound carried real hard.
i think bear/michael johnston was really fucked over though. him and his acting are actually really good, it's very reminiscent of de niro in taxi driver, especially the early parts, the lonely, depressed, undiagnosed mental issues, the general attitude, the look of like "just got through with a panic attack". but the character/script with him is shitty. and they started really well with him as the protag; the scenes right before the wish they took a lot of takes of nikki being into him and not, and spliced them, so you couldn't really tell like he couldn't. similar technique to what they did in american psycho with dafoe and bale. so from that point he's not supposed to be a whimpering retard or evil by neglect, it's supposed to be "damn, i dunno wtf she's thinking either or if you should shoot your shot or not, she might laugh at you or some shit" to identify with the mc.
then there's the "obsession" wish which is the central fuckup. they make him schrodinger's retard in reaction to it, he clearly is shown even confronting it head on at a point with "ok but do you actually like me", but then at others is magically ignorant to her being put more in temp control during sex and becoming like a starfished rape victim instead just plapping like everything's normal, her telling him to kill her and how he hasn't actually been with her, her moments of separation from the "entity" etc. and then he's also like a retarded tier cuck/almost completely unrealistic action wise. the catsandwich event is major enough, but then there's sarah. instead of having the nikki "does she actually like me or not", her fucking ian behind his back "no feelings bro" and ian being a general retard, there was a girl that he was made aware of liked him, then directly told him she liked him, then was ended in a very specifically brutal way and later violated and ""cat sandwiched"" as well, and he sees she had achieved her dream education, potentially a dream life, breaks down, and then that nigger does nothing?
he acts like de niro in taxi driver but there's never the breaking point/change or the full on putting his life up to attempt to rescue someone or make things right, at least to himself. there's so many head canons that are never touched; what if he actually directly confronted the entity, maybe in raw anger or possibly trying to talk it down, to separate from nikki (prior to her "possession" she screams at something, so it hints at it being it's own thing, the creator says it's not demonic ((the weird helpline call dark humor shit should have been cut then and was a mistake)) so it's likely more of a faerie chaotic neutral-ish/mischievous thing, and temp separation is possible and shown, so maybe doing a gambit of getting it to separate from nikki without directly killing her to be with him directly and as itself, maybe making it empathize with the entity and nikki both being forced to love him instead of having free will. saving her and potentially fucking himself instead. so instead of scenes like her begging to kill him, instead of "uwu being with me isn't better than dyin??"" retard villain-esque shit, it's him not wanting her/anyone else to die, taking accountability for his wish fuckup. there's also a lot of potential ends that wouldn't explicitly be better but could have had more emotional fulfillment, like the more classical wish end of at the end, he snaps back to right before the wish or before they leave the bars, still remembers what happens and starts crying or some shit, then at the house it cuts at him telling her he does like her or some shit, with no wish. so the events still happened to him, and he at least chose not to be "villainous" and willing to risk possible rejection instead of just "and then everyone died, life sucks, everyone sucks" shit.
