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Sixteen minutes into \u201cObsession\u201d \u2014 the massively popular, shoestring-budget horror film breaking box office records and bucking expectations left and right \u2014 writer-director Curry Barker gives it all away. Driving home from bar trivia, best friends and coworkers Bear (Michael Johnston) and Nikki (Inde Navarrette) chat about life, and all the differences between where they are and where they want to be. Bear can barely hide the hearts in his eyes as Nikki speaks, wondering if this might finally be the time to confess his love for her, when she beats him to the emotional punch: She\u2019s fed up with her job and has put in her two-week notice. Nikki wants to write full-time and believes that a lack of love in her life is stifling her manuscript. The word piques Bear\u2019s curiosity, causing him to wonder aloud if Nikki\u2019s writing a romance. \u201cIt\u2019s not a romance, it\u2019s a love story,\u201d she immediately corrects him. Laughing, Bear replies: \u201cIsn\u2019t that the same thing?\u201d<\/p>

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As \u201cObsession\u201d so painstakingly reminds the viewer over the next 90-some minutes, a romance and a love story are not the same thing, and our ability to so easily confuse the two is Barker\u2019s point. Love is overwhelming but can still be one-sided, an imbalance that love\u2019s all-consuming nature disguises. Romance, on the other hand, implies a unique feeling two people share, a spark that can be nurtured together as their lives intertwine. \u201cObsession\u201d is the latter: a tale of love and all of its foibles and frailties, devoid of any actual romance \u2014 something that, given the extended pause after Bear\u2019s question about their interchangeability, Barker clearly wants the audience to remember.<\/p>\n

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(Focus Features)<\/span> Inde Navarrette as Nikki and Michael Johnston as Bear in \u201cObsession\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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In the end, all that\u2019s left is another thinly written woman in horror, camouflaged by tongue-in-cheek jokes and flimsy progressive ideas. It\u2019s a disguise \u201cObsession\u201d wears so well that it\u2019s fooling people into thinking this perfectly adequate film marks the arrival of a new horror classic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Barker wisely plants this tension in the screenplay without drawing too much attention to itself, folding it into the natural progression of a conversation between two close friends. This surreptitious screenwriting trick serves two functions. The first purpose is to keep the audience laser-focused on the differences between love and romance, leading them to believe that observing the distinction is their own doing, not something Barker goaded them into. The second reason, however, is more insidious. Spoon-feeding this critical bit of dialogue early in the film allows Barker to heap as much violence, trauma and tropes onto Nikki\u2019s character as possible, under the guise of thematic callbacks. Each bit of misogynistic framing and objectification Nikki suffers can be defended as a means to an end. \u201cThis is all to convey the consequences of Bear \u2014 and men as a whole \u2014 not understanding that love and romance aren\u2019t the same thing,\u201d one might say.<\/p>\n

But held under a magnifying glass and removed from the film\u2019s fervent fanfare, those arguments fall apart. Barker\u2019s movie is packed with familiar beats about obsessed women stalking men, and just as riddled with their stale narrative pitfalls, with one or two novel ideas peppered into the mix to freshen up the clich\u00e9s. In the end, all that\u2019s left is another thinly written woman in horror, camouflaged by tongue-in-cheek jokes and flimsy progressive ideas. It\u2019s a disguise \u201cObsession\u201d wears so well that it\u2019s fooling people into thinking this perfectly adequate film marks the arrival of a new horror classic.<\/p>\n

To be both fair and perfectly clear, enjoying \u201cObsession\u201d isn\u2019t a stain on someone\u2019s intellect or an indication of their moviegoing acumen. Like many horror films, it\u2019s entertaining even when it\u2019s simply decent. Barker, who has directed feature-length films for his successful YouTube channel but makes his foray into theaters with \u201cObsession,\u201d is a promising filmmaker, and the cast \u2014 particularly Navarrette, who makes Nikki as frightening as she is heartwrenching \u2014 is largely excellent. The film is well-paced, if occasionally repetitive, and approaches the hackneyed wish-gone-wrong formula with some unique panache.<\/p>\n

What irks me is how one-note the character writing is, and how the movie\u2019s youthful, seemingly forward-thinking perspective allows Barker to get away with reducing Nikki to nothing. Fashioning \u201cObsession\u201d as a take on male loneliness is a deceptively simple way to invalidate criticism of the movie\u2019s misogynistic execution, like an escape hatch for the YouTuber who grew up copy-and-pasting fair use legalese in their video descriptions.<\/p>\n

Nikki\u2019s interiority ceases only a moment after that fateful conversation about love and romance on the way home from the bar. Worried that not working together might drive a wedge between their closeness, Bear sees Nikki inside before making a wish on a mystical \u201cOne-Wish Willow\u201d for Nikki to \u201clove [him] more than anyone else in the world.\u201d Already, the viewer gets their first chance to relish their observantness. Bear was too wrapped up in his own fantasies to consider Nikki\u2019s sentiment about love and romance\u00a0\u2014 what harm could the syntax of a wish on a rinky-dink novelty item really do? \u2014 and is about to pay the price. The cost for Nikki, though, is significantly steeper. From the second Bear breaks the willow, the real Nikki and Wish Nikki are warring inside one body, fighting to be the one who has control, and rarely will power be granted to the real Nikki. That means Navarrette had less than 20 minutes to convey an entire lifetime\u2019s worth of depth, and will spend the remainder of the movie locked in a violent degradation.<\/p>\n

From here, \u201cObsession\u201d is largely paint-by-numbers. If you\u2019ve seen any Monkey\u2019s Paw media or caught even a stray episode of \u201cThe Fairly OddParents\u201d growing up, it\u2019s simple to predict where the film is headed and how it will get to its destination. Ruin is certain. What\u2019s slightly more vague is the extent Barker is willing to go to in conveying just how intense the terms of Bear\u2019s wish really are. The next morning, when Bear wakes up to Nikki fashioning a memorial for his recently deceased cat, complete with its blood on the floor, flies buzzing, and a prayer candle lit, it\u2019s obvious Barker has no intent on starting small. What follows is a veritable game of \u201cGuess Which \u2018Crazy Woman\u2019 Tropes We Can Get Away With by Making Nikki\u2019s Actions Involuntary\u201d: more animal violence, a torrent of brutal jealousy, unnerving possessiveness, gross-out toilet gags \u2014 they\u2019re all here, slapped with a new coat of paint.<\/p>

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Where the film becomes truly interesting and innovative is also where its narrative\u2019s most imposing roadblock lies. As the severity of Nikki\u2019s obsession heightens, we get a few brief glimpses of the real Nikki, stuck somewhere inside her own consciousness. In Navarrette\u2019s hands, this push-pull between good and spiritual evil is gripping. A fleeting peek at the actual Nikki reminds us that she\u2019s conscious of everything that\u2019s happening to her \u2014 all that she\u2019s doing and saying can be felt and heard, but there\u2019s nothing she can do about it. It\u2019s a cruelty that Navarrette plays with aplomb, using slight changes in her facial expressions and almost imperceptible eye movements to convey the differences between the two versions of her character.<\/p>\n

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(Focus Features)<\/span> Inde Navarrette as Nikki in \u201cObsession\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

The problem is that these moments are imbalanced, outweighed by the amount of time spent watching Wish Nikki do terrible things and Bear suffer the consequences. If the purpose of making Nikki into a freak show is to comment on the evil women endure at the hands of men, even inadvertently, the viewer deserves more than just a cursory look at the real person beneath the wish, the fleeting remnant of a person that they\u2019re supposed to be sympathizing with.<\/p>\n

Barker has said that, in writing the film, he wanted to explore the fear of men \u201cnot saying the right thing, or not wanting to come off like a creep.\u201d And while those apprehensions are examined in the film, they\u2019re never once investigated from Nikki\u2019s point of view. The concerns that a quote-unquote \u201cgood\u201d guy might have while dating \u2014 or, in Bear\u2019s case, trying to date \u2014 in the modern age would be infinitely more compelling from the woman\u2019s perspective. What does Bear\u2019s forced projection of their imagined romance feel like for Nikki? What repercussions are there for her? The viewer never gets more than a passing peep.<\/p>\n

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Fashioning \u201cObsession\u201d as a take on male loneliness is a deceptively simple way to invalidate criticism of the movie\u2019s misogynistic execution, like an escape hatch for the YouTuber who grew up copy-and-pasting fair use legalese in their video descriptions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The film\u2019s terror comes from watching a woman be reduced to an absolute shell of herself. Nikki is nothing more than her pain and deterioration because Barker doesn\u2019t allow us any other prolonged glimpses of Nikki or her life after Bear makes his wish. To tout that total lack of characterization as unique or revolutionary is a joke. We\u2019ve been forced to watch women beg to die \u2014 the sick male fantasy of absolution rewarded through more brutal violence \u2014 enough in this life. This is precisely how men have written women in horror for decades: as roads for men to trample over and subjugate on their journey to either destruction or enlightenment.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t matter that Nikki\u2019s lack of interiority reflects Bear\u2019s perception of her. Her complete one-sidedness is still indicative of a man\u2019s point of view. That Nikki\u2019s parents are repeatedly and affectionately alluded to, yet somehow never come around asking where their daughter has been for weeks, confirms that Barker has no desire to spend any more time exploring the real Nikki\u2019s life than Bear does. What a shame, considering a three-dimensional approach might be all \u201cObsession\u201d needs to skate past mediocrity.<\/p>\n

Why, then, has the response to \u201cObsession\u201d been so effusive? Its journey to the silver screen is one major component. Made on a budget of just $1 million, it\u2019s an undeniably impressive feat that looks and feels far more expensive than it really was. It\u2019s also the kind of success story that theatergoing audiences love to champion, and that fairweather viewers find intriguing enough to check out themselves. But most of all, Barker spotted a hole in the market. Gen Z and Gen Alpha aren\u2019t so fatigued by Monkey\u2019s Paw tales because horror\u2019s cyclical nature hasn\u2019t yet completely revamped this trope for a new era. Barker wisely fashioned \u201cObsession\u201d as a contemporary movie, taking inspiration from a \u201cSimpsons\u201d rerun and revamping it into something the socially conscious, explainer video-addicted YouTube audience might enjoy.<\/p>\n

But Barker only glances at a few relevant themes before turning his gaze just when things are getting interesting. \u201cObsession\u201d has ideas about our age of instant gratification and parasocial idealization fueled by social media that the film never manages to do anything more than wag a finger at. One might say it works as a commentary on incel culture, but that collapses the more Barker paints Bear as an unwitting victim of his own perfectly normal hopes and dreams. \u201cObsession\u201d desperately wants to be a modern film, but can\u2019t do anything more bold than gesturing to the bleakness and incessant discourse this reality is mired in.<\/p>\n

If this spring\u2019s \u201cThe Drama\u201d still managed to polarize some viewers and critics with thorny yet palatable gender dynamics, \u201cObsession\u201d is its dull cousin: all tell, no show. Where the former implemented carefully considered, brief glimpses of its female lead to shade her character\u2019s textures, \u201cObsession\u201d stops caring about Nikki the moment her silhouette is completed. How ironic that this is so often how she appears in the film: shrouded in darkness, barely visible, her eyes glowing through the shadows and begging for someone to see the real her. Barker has no interest in shining some light on Nikki when keeping his woebegone protagonist in the dark is scarier. There, she can be any version of what the audience believes an obsessed woman might act like \u2014 what outrageous and unpredictable things she might do next. Nikki is still the fantasy for viewers to project themselves onto. She remains an archetype. All that\u2019s changed is which angle she\u2019s approached from.<\/p>

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