Obsession thread
>>224260728fuck inde
>>224260763This, but literally and tenderly.
>>224260763I wisb
If only he >moneymaxxed>looksmaxxed>cold approach-maxxed
>>224260728I wish DHT hormone make every persons hair scalp hair stronger and healthier, while making nose hair, ear hair, back hair, belly hair and shouder hair weaker
>>224260728movie is misandrist propaganda
>>224261181yeah you're no longer allowed to be yourself and get women
>>224263350my reaction to this information
our boy Bear neve stood a chance
>boomers when audiences are paying to see low-budget original films while their boomerslop crap is flopping all over the place
Obsession threads are funny
>>224263432woah look at the aspect ratio and the font and the grain omg its trve cinema!!!1
>>224261181>if only he was a 6-6-6 chad elite man who had his entire life built up, looked like Chris Hemsworth and was able to give her seven vacations a month>only men like that are allowed to marry any woman, even a literal skank known for whoring out with anyone who would have cheated on his ass anyways
I finally saw Backrooms and holy shit Obsession is so much better. Backrooms has a lot of fancy sets and more famous actors, but the plot is just people walking around
>>224263543both are memetrash
>>224260728>My Russell Brand, DC/MCU, and off-topic threads are not getting any traction, let me quickly post a Inde Navarette thread
>>224261181>>224263409>>224263490a peculiar contradiction for romance as a cultural ideal. If someone must first reconstruct his appearance, personality, income, and social status to become acceptable, what exactly is being celebrated when someone finally loves him?His authentic self, or the persona he successfully manufactured?
The film separates the two men by what they require from her, not by what they offer.Bear’s interest includes the expectation that the relationship would close other options. Ian’s interest does not. The story treats the first as the problem that must be removed and the second as compatible with her continuing to operate as she was. Once that distinction is made, the comparison no longer tests whether looks or effort determine who gets chosen. It tests whether a man who wants exclusivity can still be selected when a man who does not is available.Ian’s appearance functions as the cover for that test. Because he is not conventionally attractive, the film can claim the outcome is not about looks. The audience is shown that a less polished man can have sex with her. What is not shown is that the less polished man is the one who does not require her to stop maintaining other possibilities. The visual difference is offered as proof that the market is not superficial. The difference in expectations is left unexamined.That structure supplies the broader rule. A man can improve his appearance, status, and social performance. Those improvements are treated as the necessary conditions for being considered. Once he has them, the additional requirement is that he must not use his desirability to ask for the exclusivity that would reduce her remaining options. The performance is mandatory. The request that the performance produce a closed relationship is optional, and in this telling, disqualifying.The film therefore does not simply depict one man’s excessive interest. It supplies a version of romance in which the acceptable man is the one whose presence leaves the woman’s other choices intact. The man who wants the relationship to mean the end of those choices is written as the distortion. That is the condition under which pursuit is permitted.
>>224263543Obsession is genuinely a brilliant film and the work of an emerging voice free from the constraints of retarded boomer execs.Backrooms is just a meme horror film.
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Heh, I finally got round to watching this last night. I thought it was great desu but didn't make a thread since /teevee/ stopped talking about it a year ago. Also Nikki looked so cute when she frowned.
>>224265283not true, we never stopped talking about it
>>224260728Fugly bitch
We need more backstory on why they called her Freaky Nikki
>>224260728Why is she doing AVGN face?
>>224260728ITT weirdo's
>>224265332Get off the phone when watching shit zoomer. Literally say why she got that nickname
>>224265332t. boomer>let's commission a 6 part prequel miniseries that establishes how she got the name 'freaky nikki', and a sequel where she's moved on but a her best friend is hit by the obsession spell and so she uses the spell on herself so that she can team up with freaky nikki to undo the shenanigans and then end it on a cliffhanger
>>224265318Maybe I didn't notice because it wasn't spammed as much. Anywho, what are the odds that this will now get a half-dozen spinoffs to cash in on the original and people will end up talking about the 'Obsessionverse'?
This is comedian Nikki Howard who Barker collaborated with. They did a skit very similar to Obsession
>literally cast a spell making her do something she never would've done otherwise>i-i-it's not rape b-b-because her possessed self was cool with it!!
>>224266643its not rape
I wonder how long it'll be until we get a director's cut because the dvd is ass
>>224268152I don’t think they ever filmed this
>>224261181>cold approach-maxxed
I liked the movie a lot outside of the ending, which was giga retarded
>>224268683The ending couldn't have been more perfect.
>>224263787>His authentic self, or the persona he successfully manufactured? You're always who you are, you idiot. The persona is you, there's no mask hiding a hidden self. There is no hidden self. You are always being you. The false idea of the hidden self and the persona tears people apart and is one of the main factors behind mental illnesses. So you never "reconstruct your appearance, personality, income and social status to become acceptable", you just do what it takes to become acceptable for a specific type of people. Now the question that truly matters is actually: acceptable for who? Let's look at the kind of women who think Clavicular is 'acceptable', the kind of women who surround him: they're all materialistic, vapid, shallow, unfaithful and basically dead inside. Are they hot? Sure. I'd fuck them. But you'll never experience anything meaningful with these women, it'll kill your soul. Become who you are as that faggot Nieztsche once wrote but don't live for the kind of people you'll end up hating. Otherwise you might end up becoming one of Peter Thiel's personal fucktoys.
>>224265283>/teevee/ stopped talking about it a year agoRetards have been spamming this garbage for well over a year now, Anon
>>224268662Number 1 rule: don't approach groups of women unless you have some gimmick. It's dog rules: much more dangerous and intimidating in packs
>>224260728What if Bear was an actual Bear?
>>224265283>movie came out 6 months ago >board stopped talking about it a year ago Woah, watch out we got a confused time traveler over here
>>224268785WTF you talking a one a year ago! It was only released in May!
>>224268772I agree with almost all of this, but Nietzsche is great.
>>224268742I actually wanted Wish-Nikki and Wish-Bear to run away happily as fugitives, each with the ultimate love they now have for each other. Original Nikki gave money to a homeless man, fuelling the drug trade, so she didn't deserve to come back anyway.
>>224268772>>224269079So there's no distinction between an authentic personality and a manufactured persona, but manufacturing yourself to attract the wrong women will somehow "kill your soul"?Which is it?You spent an entire paragraph denying that people can perform identities that don't reflect their genuine feelings, then ended by warning about the psychological consequences of doing exactly that.And "you don't reconstruct yourself, you just do what it takes to become acceptable" is literally the same process with different wording.My point was that romantic acceptance increasingly gets framed as an optimization project rather than finding someone who genuinely appreciates you.Your rebuttal is that you should optimize for a different audience.Then you start rambling about Clavicular and Peter Thiel as though some random e-celebrity's dating life answers the contradiction."Be yourself" apparently means "become whatever your target demographic rewards," and if that destroys your soul, well, there was never a hidden self anyway.Brilliant.
>>224268772It's incredible how you people will write entire philosophical dissertations about literally anything except the argument being made.I'm talking about a culture where men are told to "be themselves," then informed that their actual selves are romantically unacceptable unless they moneymaxx, looksmaxx, statusmaxx, confidence-maxx, and manufacture an entirely different personality to qualify for female attention.Your response? "Actually, there is no authentic self. The persona is you."Holy shit. What a convenient little semantic escape hatch.A man pretends to be confident, suppresses his insecurities, conceals his actual interests, performs indifference, and reconstructs himself around female preferences, but apparently none of that counts as being fake because technically he's still the person doing it.Then you tell him to become acceptable to a different audience.Congratulations, genius. You've conceded the entire premise while pretending to refute it.And what the fuck does Clavicular have to do with anything? We're discussing ordinary men seeking ordinary relationships and why romantic acceptance is increasingly treated as an endless male self-improvement audition.Why must men continually prove their worth while female expectations are treated as untouchable? Why is male romantic failure automatically diagnosed as personal inadequacy? Why is the solution always to reconstruct the rejected man rather than examine the standards doing the rejecting?You haven't answered any of that.Instead, you've retreated into philosophical word games, irrelevant e-celebrity gossip, and the breathtaking revelation that men should pursue different women.The entire discussion is about who gets to dictate the terms of romantic acceptance. Your brilliant solution is for men to keep adapting to those terms while never questioning them.That's not a rebuttal. That's the ideology I'm criticizing, demonstrated in real time.
>>224268772What an incredibly convenient worldview for someone who doesn't want to confront how much of his personality might be a performance designed to win approval.Under your philosophy, a man can suppress his actual feelings, fake confidence, manufacture interests, conceal insecurities, and spend years molding himself into whatever other people reward, and none of it counts as inauthentic because technically he's still the one doing it.You've defined being fake out of existence.But then comes the best part: you warn that performing for the wrong people will "kill your soul."WHAT FUCKING SOUL?You just spent an entire paragraph insisting there's no meaningful distinction between someone's authentic identity and the persona they manufacture. Now suddenly there's something essential inside him that can be destroyed by conforming to other people's expectations?So which is it, genius?Either people can betray themselves by performing identities that contradict their genuine desires, in which case you've conceded my entire point, or every performance is equally authentic, in which case your warning about destroying your soul is meaningless.You can't have it both ways.And why are you so emotionally invested in abolishing the very concept of inauthenticity? Why does the suggestion that a man might be loved for a manufactured persona rather than his genuine personality provoke this much philosophical gymnastics?Because your argument doesn't read like liberation. It reads like a permission slip for endless conformity.You've constructed a worldview where every compromise is authenticity, every performance is identity, and every surrender to social expectations is magically self-expression.The funniest possibility is that you've spent so long becoming whatever other people find acceptable that you've mistaken the performance for the person.And now you're lecturing everyone else that masks don't exist.Maybe that's why you need to believe it.
>>224263409he wasn't being himself though
>>224270329How convenient. When being yourself doesn't work, you weren't really being yourself. When changing yourself doesn't work, you were trying too hard. When a woman finally lets you in between her legs, congratulations, you've finally become your "authentic self".You've constructed a feminist gaslighting definition of authenticity that can never be falsified because whatever happens afterward determines whether the man was authentic in the first place.None of this explains why ordinary men are endlessly told to optimize themselves while simultaneously being lectured about authenticity.Apparently 'be yourself' is still the rule. Feminists just get to decide retroactively which self counts.
>>224265283nigga it got big less than a year ago
damn that coping retards post got raped good job guys
>>224270329>Be yourself>Wait, no, not like thatMake it make sense, normies
>>224270768It will never not be this
>>224260728monkey paw logic is retarded because it gives you something you didn't wish for, so is not a wish, genies need to get fucking sued
>>224270834>Muh monkey pawI know you’re the same brian dead idiots that thinks this is some clever take. It’s not because it’s a not a monkey paw! It’s love potion/spell and every fucking story involving it shit never ends well. Why Genie tells Aladdin it’s one of the things he won’t do
>>224271021still didn't grant his wish. His wish was that Nikki fall in love with him, not be made to love him against her will.
>>224260728Why do women obssess over their phones and social media but not men? ??????
>>224260728The smiles loses strength on the second half.She could fucking sustain for 5 seconds? wth
>>224271041What do think that means when somone doesn’t love you and you made a wish they did! That is why love potions/spells are never good
>>224271142it SHOULD mean they now love you since that was the wish.
>>224271067what if ur man wuz a phone
>>224271193I see, you’re an idiot.
>>224260728Who did it better?
>>224271658https://vrbangers.com/video/obsession-a-porn-parody/https://www.babepedia.com/babe/Asteria_Jade
>>224272225Ok body but a straight up horse face like most porn stars
>>224271474that didn't answer what I said at all, so I guess you can't answer it.>I wish for this car to be red.>Well, I can't make it red but I can put a red sheet over it so it looks red. That's the same thing right?>No, that's not my wish
>>224260728>simp makes a wish for his whore female friend to love him>real Nikki is screaming in torture as she's forced to be in a monogamous relationship instead of slutting it up this is truly peak zoomer horror.
>>224272225i fucking hate vr
>>224272580I take it you’re brown by associating a car to a human being. Wishing for someone who doesn’t love you to love you is making them do something against their will. Period. Why when Bear tells Wish Nikki to be more like Real Nikki she can’t because Real Nikki didn’t love him
>>224272616Kek
>>224272638The wish should've made real Nikki love him, that was the wish
>>224268847>unless you have some gimmickWhat are you a jeet?
>>224272638>is making them do something against their will.Yes, that is the wish. what part of this aren't you getting, you dumb fuck?
My wife.
>>224272719>>224272685Bait
>>224263543yes, but which director would you rather hang out with?
>>224263409>you're no longer allowed to be yourself and get womenAre you new or something? You can never be yourself around a woman. EVER. It has always been that way. Why the fuck do you think all cultures around the world consider women to be evil, vile and source of all sin?Women see world and events through the scope of emotions, not the actual event and the actual world. But how a certain situation makes them feel at the moment. That's also the reason why they cheat more frequently then men.
im obsessioned with her, if you know what i mean
>>224272225That's a man
>>224261181He should have wished for statusmaxx
>>224274177Checked and arab pilled
The waitress at the beginning was cute :3
>>224260728Never saw it not going to
>>224274177>me when i get no pussy and im mad
>>224270370It's awe-inspiring how many people vilify Bear. He and the others are victims of a curse. He did the best he could. No, it's not bad that he didn't kill the woman he loved. No, him getting scared of suicide does not erase his intent to try to free Nikki. If he was so selfish, he could have let Nikki kill herself and give evidence of her erratic nature by bringing up the party and her refusal to receive care at a hospital. Also, for the record, she says, "I can be Nikki," not "I can't be Nikki."
>>224260728So this movie is an instant classic, right?People will still be watching and discussing it 30-40 years from now
>>224270753It's awe-inspiring how many people vilify Bear. He and the others are victims of a curse. He did the best he could. No, it's not bad that he didn't kill the woman he loved. No, him getting scared of suicide does not erase his intent to try to free Nikki. If he was so selfish, he could have let Nikki kill herself and give evidence of her erratic nature by bringing up the party and her refusal to receive care at a hospital. Also, for the record, she says, "I can be Nikki," not "I can't be Nikki."
