OBSESSION: 10 Unanswered Questions & Freaky Nikki Theories! — Transcript

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1. 0:00Freaky Nikki moves like this in
2. 0:01Obsession because the two Nikkis are
3. 0:03actually fighting for control over her
4. 0:04body. Yes, the whole movie is about body
5. 0:06autonomy. I'm Eric Boss of the New
6. 0:08Rockstars channel and here are 10
7. 0:10unanswered questions from Obsession, the
8. 0:12record-breaking horror film of this
9. 0:13summer directed by Curry Barker and my
10. 0:15favorite movie that I've seen so far
11. 0:17this year. I already broke down a bunch
12. 0:19of little details that you might have
13. 0:20missed from this film in this video, but
14. 0:22after I saw the film again, I realized
15. 0:24there are actually a lot of unanswered
16. 0:26questions and theories about the movie
17. 0:27that I wanted to try to cover in this
18. 0:29video. Number one, what happens to Nikki
19. 0:31after this movie? Bear's wish only fades
20. 0:33and releases Freaky Nikki's control over
21. 0:35real Nikki's body when Bear fully dies.
22. 0:37So, basically poor Nikki wakes up with
23. 0:39her three friends dead in this house
24. 0:42with her and her own body and psyche
25. 0:43having gone through some brutal trauma.
26. 0:45Nikki Freeman is probably going to
27. 0:47prison for the murders of Ian and Sarah
28. 0:49and probably also for being connected to
29. 0:51Bear's death. Here's what Curry Barker
30. 0:52said about the epilogue for Nikki.
31. 0:54>> She probably goes to to jail.
32. 0:57She's probably going to prison for a
33. 0:59very long time. There's also like a
34. 1:01billion dollars in Ian's house and Ian's
35. 1:04dead on the floor, so she's connected to
36. 1:06that money in some way.
37. 1:08Uh who knows
38. 1:11what the cops are going to kind of put
39. 1:14together as the story, but she's not
40. 1:16going to have a very good life, I don't
41. 1:18think. It's a very sad.
42. 1:20>> Ah, but Curry Barker does remind us that
43. 1:22the billion dollars that Ian wished for
44. 1:24is still in his house. That would be 10
45. 1:26metric tons of cash piled up to the
46. 1:28windows. Now, he said it here to suggest
47. 1:30that the police would implicate her with
48. 1:32that money. How would one possibly even
49. 1:34steal a billion dollars worth of cash?
50. 1:36But, I think it also presents us with
51. 1:37another possible happy ending where
52. 1:39Nikki could quickly gather up as much of
53. 1:41that money as she could carry and live
54. 1:43comfortably off the grid for the rest of
55. 1:44her life and have a kind of Shawshank
56. 1:46Redemption beach ending for herself. I
57. 1:48guess this would be as comfortable as
58. 1:49one could possibly feel after going
59. 1:51through what she went through. And hey,
60. 1:53think about it, if Nikki were able to
61. 1:54get away, maybe there's a way blame
62. 1:55could have then been shifted to Sarah's
63. 1:57father, Andy Richter's character, like a
64. 1:59music store owner who just went crazy
65. 2:00and killed his daughter for leaving him
66. 2:02behind after she got into this new art
67. 2:03school, and killed her and his other
68. 2:05three employees, which the cops might
69. 2:06assume because they never would have
70. 2:08found Nikki's body. But, her blood would
71. 2:09have been all over the crime scene. Two,
72. 2:11what did real Nikki experience in this
73. 2:13movie? It's honestly the most horrifying
74. 2:16thing to really consider. I mean, this
75. 2:17movie gets way scarier and more dramatic
76. 2:19when you rewatch it from the perspective
77. 2:21of real Nikki trapped in her own body as
78. 2:23freaky Nikki controls her motor
79. 2:24functions. There were the various
80. 2:25moments that we saw real Nikki breaking
81. 2:27through the surface, like when freaky
82. 2:28Nikki first stands at Bear's car window
83. 2:30and real Nikki catches herself for a
84. 2:32second asking what's going on. And then
85. 2:33when freaky Nikki kisses Bear in his
86. 2:35bed, real Nikki surfaces for a moment
87. 2:37and screams and jumps off the bed. Then
88. 2:38later when freaky Nikki packs Bear's
89. 2:40lunch, it must be real Nikki who writes
90. 2:42not me on the Polaroid. Then when Bear
91. 2:44calls the customer service line, we hear
92. 2:46real Nikki screaming from some place.
93. 2:48And then at Ian's party, real Nikki
94. 2:50comes out at one point and repeatedly
95. 2:51screams, "It's not me." while trying to
96. 2:53smash her face with a bottle. And then
97. 2:55while freaky Nikki sleeps, real Nikki
98. 2:57quietly begs Bear to kill her. And then
99. 2:58at the end of the movie, maybe you
100. 2:59missed this, but while she's dressed as
101. 3:01Sarah with Sarah's tattoos and wearing
102. 3:03Sarah's scalp, after hitting herself
103. 3:05with a brick, her legs go wobbly and she
104. 3:07says, "Stop, stop." which I think is
105. 3:08real Nikki in that brief moment. So,
106. 3:11based on all of these moments, real
107. 3:12Nikki experiences everything. And yes,
108. 3:15that includes Bear assaulting her. In my
109. 3:17other video, I mistakenly called it sex
110. 3:18because I guess I was under the
111. 3:20assumption that freaky Nikki was capable
112. 3:21of consent, but the reality is what Bear
113. 3:24did there was straight-up assault. You
114. 3:25know, the four-letter R-word that
115. 3:27YouTube won't even let us say in videos.
116. 3:29I really did not mean to minimize that,
117. 3:30but that awful, awful truth underscores
118. 3:32the following scene where freaky Nikki
119. 3:34watches Bear sleep from the shadows and
120. 3:36scares him with her movement, and then
121. 3:38her face distorts as she screams that
122. 3:40she doesn't like her dreams. Of course,
123. 3:41freaky Nikki doesn't like her dreams
124. 3:43because she has to share her
125. 3:44subconscious with real Nikki. But yes,
126. 3:46throughout this movie, imagine that real
127. 3:48Nikki has to experience things like
128. 3:50standing completely still for several
129. 3:51hours smiling as she soils herself.
130. 3:54Things like smashing her best friend
131. 3:55Sarah's face with a brick and then
132. 3:57further desecrating Sarah's corpse. But
133. 3:59there was also this evidence of what
134. 4:00real Nikki was going through. How and
135. 4:02why does Freaky Nikki move backwards?
136. 4:04Well, Curry Barker clearly used reverse
137. 4:06photography with actress Indiana Varret
138. 4:08to achieve a common horror cinema visual
139. 4:10motive and it works quite well on its
140. 4:12own as a creepy visual to show something
141. 4:14is off about Freaky Nikki. But it's also
142. 4:16a somewhat supernatural flare for a
143. 4:18character who is not demonically
144. 4:20possessed according to the director, but
145. 4:22is rather just a newly created persona
146. 4:23of pure obsession by Bear's wish. Well,
147. 4:26if you look closely at the backwards
148. 4:27movement, it isn't just Indy walking
149. 4:29normally then reversed. It's actually
150. 4:31Indy taking extra wide very weird steps
151. 4:34forward and then that movement being
152. 4:36reversed. That's why I really like this
153. 4:37interpretation that the backwards
154. 4:39movement is actually a physical struggle
155. 4:41between Freaky Nikki and Real Nikki for
156. 4:43control over this one body. Real Nikki
157. 4:45is trying to rush toward Bear to kill
158. 4:47him in these moments while Freaky Nikki
159. 4:48is more powerfully restraining the body
160. 4:51backwards and winning that struggle
161. 4:52resulting in this unnatural backwards
162. 4:54movement. And I would love that if
163. 4:56that's true because it would mean that
164. 4:57every time you see Freaky Nikki move
165. 4:58this way throughout the film, it's not
166. 5:00just like a scary visual. It's a
167. 5:01representation of the deeper truth theme
168. 5:03of this movie. Not just a story about
169. 5:05toxic obsession, but a story about body
170. 5:07autonomy. Four, why is Freaky Nikki
171. 5:09obsessed with the dead cat? Well, Freaky
172. 5:10Nikki's obsession with Sandy has been
173. 5:12interpreted by some theories as evidence
174. 5:14that Sandy the cat could have
175. 5:16reincarnated as the Freaky Nikki
176. 5:17persona. I love this theory and all the
177. 5:20evidence for it. Like that shining
178. 5:21reflection in Freaky Nikki's eyes like a
179. 5:23cat, the way she waits by the door all
180. 5:25day long, the way she keeps digging up
181. 5:27the dead cat's body, the way she's
182. 5:29obsessed with Bear's smell, and that
183. 5:30creepy tiptoe way of walking. I also
184. 5:33just love any fan theory that
185. 5:34reincarnates a dead character as a cat
186. 5:36like the cat in The Sopranos who looks
187. 5:38at the picture of Christopher
188. 5:39Moltisanti. If you know, you know.
189. 5:40However, Curry Barker has clearly stated
190. 5:42that obsession is not a possession
191. 5:44story. Freaky Nikki is a persona created
192. 5:46by Bear's wish. So, I think a more
193. 5:48accurate read of Freaky Nikki's
194. 5:49obsession with Sandy is that Freaky
195. 5:51Nikki just sees the dead cat as
196. 5:52something Bear loved and took care of.
197. 5:54So, she's kind of behaviorally
198. 5:56recreating the cat as a way to try to
199. 5:58make Bear love her. And because she's
200. 6:00this weird grotesque shadow of a human
201. 6:02being, she just gets it horribly wrong.
202. 6:03Five, did real Nikki want Bear to say
203. 6:06that he liked her? So, the moment Bear
204. 6:08calls her Freaky Nikki after dropping
205. 6:10her off and it really offends her, Nikki
206. 6:12confronts Bear asking, "Do you like me?"
207. 6:14Cuz if you do, "now would be the time to
208. 6:15tell me." Bear backs off saying he
209. 6:17thinks they're good friends and Nikki
210. 6:19gives this interesting vague response.
211. 6:20She says, "Okay." And then she tucks her
212. 6:22hair behind her ear and says, "Good.
213. 6:24Good night." And kind of awkwardly turns
214. 6:25away. Some are reading this as
215. 6:27disappointment from Nikki, that Nikki
216. 6:28secretly wanted Bear to say that he
217. 6:30liked her in this moment. And I think
218. 6:31it's valid to read it that way. Indeed,
219. 6:33I wrote told The Hollywood Reporter that
220. 6:35she and Corinne Barker shot these
221. 6:36earlier scenes of the movie with
222. 6:37different takes that would deliberately
223. 6:39alternate the way Nikki seemed to feel
224. 6:41about Bear in that take. And some takes
225. 6:43she played it slightly flirty. Another
226. 6:45take she played it completely
227. 6:46uninterested, but either way they wanted
228. 6:47it to be ambiguous. And the actress did
229. 6:50admit playing this line with a little
230. 6:52disappointment because she said Nikki
231. 6:53felt a vibe from Bear. Now, Nikki
232. 6:56feeling a vibe does not mean that she
233. 6:58returned those feelings for Bear. When
234. 7:00you rewatch the movie, it's clear that
235. 7:01everything Nikki does during trivia
236. 7:02night is A, a brother-sister affection
237. 7:05and B, trying to set up Bear with Sarah.
238. 7:07Like the reason Nikki even begs Bear to
239. 7:09come to trivia night over the phone is
240. 7:11for Sarah. She refuses to let Bear pay
241. 7:12for their drinks. She's disappointed
242. 7:14that Bear doesn't like the taste of
243. 7:15alcohol because she knows him getting
244. 7:17drunk is actually going to be the
245. 7:18easiest path to him ending up hooking up
246. 7:20with Sarah at karaoke afterward.
247. 7:22Actually, later during the Jenga scene
248. 7:23when Bear considers kissing Sarah on his
249. 7:25left from the Jenga brick, it's really
250. 7:27just because he doesn't want to take a
251. 7:28sip of beer because he doesn't like the
252. 7:29taste of alcohol. And then on the car
253. 7:31ride home, of course, Nikki asks Bear
254. 7:32how he feels about Sarah. All signs in
255. 7:35the opening minutes of this movie point
256. 7:36to Nikki just being a nice chill
257. 7:38supportive friend. The internet is like
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301. 9:01this video so you can see the
302. 9:03improvements for yourself. Six, where
303. 9:05did the nickname Freaky Nikki come from?
304. 9:07Well, based on how much it clearly hurts
305. 9:09Nikki, it seems to have been some cruel
306. 9:11middle school rumor about some sexual
307. 9:13acts that Nikki might have performed or
308. 9:15was into. The way middle school students
309. 9:16can just be so cruel that way,
310. 9:18especially with girls. This might be
311. 9:19some history that Nikki would have
312. 9:20discussed in a vulnerable conversation
313. 9:22with Ian that Ian knew she was still
314. 9:24sensitive about and deliberately told
315. 9:26Bear to call her that in order to
316. 9:27sabotage Bear. But, it's also possible
317. 9:29that the freaky moniker was just derived
318. 9:31from some of Nikki's other interests,
319. 9:32like, you know, she wears crystals,
320. 9:34she's into creative writing. Actually,
321. 9:36that Hansel and Gretel passage has been
322. 9:37debated by people watching this movie.
323. 9:39While I still think that that was just
324. 9:40freaky Nikki trying and completely
325. 9:42failing to produce some kinky erotica to
326. 9:44impress everyone, I think it's also
327. 9:46valid to see that as some erotica that
328. 9:48real Nikki had actually written, maybe
329. 9:50while trying to break out of her
330. 9:51writer's block, something that she felt
331. 9:53ashamed over, but maybe also the kind of
332. 9:55writing that she wrote as a middle
333. 9:56school student that she shared in a
334. 9:58moment of vulnerability with another kid
335. 10:00who then bullied her for it, or
336. 10:01something that a kid saw in her notebook
337. 10:03in her backpack and took it out. just
338. 10:05started calling her freaky Nikki based
339. 10:06on that. I still think the Hansel and
340. 10:08Gretel monologue was just some what the
341. 10:09[ __ ] [ __ ] that freaky Nikki came up
342. 10:11with, but let me know in the comments
343. 10:12below how you read that. Seven, how far
344. 10:14back does Bear's crush on Nikki actually
345. 10:16go? Well, the opening diner scene
346. 10:18suggests that Bear has been crushing on
347. 10:19Nikki for years because Ian calls his
348. 10:21speech a quote seven year late proposal,
349. 10:23suggesting that they're around 25 years
350. 10:25old and that Bear has liked her since
351. 10:27high school. But in my breakdown of the
352. 10:28movie, I spotted Bear's recent search
353. 10:30history on his Probe search engine. On
354. 10:32the margin we see yesterday, classic
355. 10:34romance movies, how to play Green Day's
356. 10:36"Basket Case" on marimba, last seven
357. 10:38days, how to woo a girl, how to impress
358. 10:40a girl, how to flirt, how to know you've
359. 10:41been friend-zoned, July, oxycodone,
360. 10:44June, nursing homes, old people homes.
361. 10:46So, doing some reverse chronology here,
362. 10:49Bear's grandmother died just within the
363. 10:51past two months. And shortly after that,
364. 10:52Nikki supposedly comforted him, and then
365. 10:54just in the past seven days he began
366. 10:56searching for flirting tips? I think his
367. 10:58entire interest in Nikki happened
368. 11:00relatively recently. I don't think this
369. 11:02is a long-held high school crush. It's
370. 11:04more of a fleeting obsession with a
371. 11:05woman he worked with who he'd been
372. 11:06around for a while, who one day just
373. 11:08looked at him a certain way that made
374. 11:09him think, "She's going to be the answer
375. 11:11to all my problems." Despite the fact
376. 11:12that he doesn't know her that well. And
377. 11:14to me, that would make Bear's interest
378. 11:16in Nikki even darker, even from the
379. 11:17beginning of the movie. I think from the
380. 11:19get-go, there's nothing genuinely
381. 11:21sentimental about it, despite the sappy
382. 11:23romantic music that we hear over the
383. 11:24monologue. So, when we see those photo
384. 11:26booth photos in his bedroom, when he's
385. 11:28clearly dragging her in the booth with
386. 11:30him, and she's not very happy about it,
387. 11:32and this is why he's going directly from
388. 11:33disposing his dead cat to just scrolling
389. 11:35through Nikki's Instagram. Yeah, it all
390. 11:37very much adds up to toxic incel
391. 11:39behavior. Eight, what about the other
392. 11:40wishes? Like when Bear goes back into
393. 11:42the gift shop to buy another one wish
394. 11:44willow and asks the new male clerk to
395. 11:46make a wish for him. This clerk says, "I
396. 11:48already used my wish, man." Now, some
397. 11:49interpretations out there are saying
398. 11:51that the wish was made by the female
399. 11:52clerk earlier in the movie to transition
400. 11:54into a male. Look, if that's how you
401. 11:56want to read this movie, I'm not going
402. 11:57to fight you on it. I'll say that this
403. 11:58male clerk does have the same jaded
404. 12:00customer service vibe as the first
405. 12:02clerk. But without doxing myself too
406. 12:04much, I do actually live in the Burbank
407. 12:05neighborhood of the Green Man shop where
408. 12:07they shot this. And I can confirm that
409. 12:09all these spooky gift shops on Halloween
410. 12:11row in this area tend to have a day
411. 12:12shift staff and a night shift staff who
412. 12:14just tend to be synced within the same
413. 12:16cultural vibe of the store. Actually, I
414. 12:18think it was all these familiar San
415. 12:19Fernando Valley locations that made me
416. 12:21love this movie even more. The
417. 12:22restaurant scene was shot at Little
418. 12:23Tony's, the NoHo pizza restaurant that I
419. 12:25used to live right across the street
420. 12:26from. I still go to it all the time. But
421. 12:28I actually think this guy's wish was
422. 12:30something small and simple, like either
423. 12:32becoming owner of the shop or rather
424. 12:34maybe just getting the preferential
425. 12:36slower day shift, leaving his grumpy
426. 12:38coworker to have to take the night shift
427. 12:39when people will come in right at
428. 12:41closing. My theory is the simpler the
429. 12:43wish, the less drama it brings into your
430. 12:45life. Nine, why did Bear have the
431. 12:47sleeping pills? Remember in Bear's last
432. 12:49scene with Sarah in the car? They're
433. 12:50joking about drugging her dad and he
434. 12:52mentions, "I have sleeping pills in my
435. 12:53pocket." Those are sleeping pills, not
436. 12:55the oxy pills that are in the medicine
437. 12:57cabinet. Remember, this scene comes
438. 12:58right after Freaky Nikki was asleep and
439. 13:00real Nikki begs Bear to kill her. I
440. 13:02wonder if Bear might have tried to drug
441. 13:04Freaky Nikki to keep her docile after
442. 13:06everything that happened at the party or
443. 13:07maybe planned to drug her again after
444. 13:09realizing real Nikki's voice can come
445. 13:11out of the body when it's sleeping. And
446. 13:13this messed up predator might have been
447. 13:15planning to do something with Nikki's
448. 13:18sleeping body to try to like connect
449. 13:20with real Nikki while Freaky Nikki
450. 13:22slept. It's just when he said, "What
451. 13:24would be so bad about living with me?"
452. 13:26that made me think this guy needs to be
453. 13:27in prison. I do not like Bear at all at
454. 13:29this point in the movie. I don't trust
455. 13:31him at all and I think he's capable of
456. 13:32horrible, horrible things. And 10, how
457. 13:35did the One Wish Willow customer service
458. 13:36have access to real Nikki? Cory Barker
459. 13:39himself voices this character and when
460. 13:41asked about the customer service line in
461. 13:42interviews, he said that this screaming
462. 13:44Nikki is being kept in, quote, some sort
463. 13:46of purgatory, but who knows? Actually,
464. 13:48this very fun theory from Redditor
465. 13:50International Crow 22 suggests that the
466. 13:52One Wish Willow works by merging
467. 13:54parallel realities. A reality where
468. 13:56Nikki was obsessed with Bear and this
469. 13:58reality where she isn't obsessed with
470. 13:59Bear, which is why freaky Nikki screams
471. 14:01that she loves Bear in every reality.
472. 14:04And here's my contribution to this
473. 14:05theory. Look at the company name, Tabby
474. 14:07Cat. I think that could be a reference
475. 14:08to Schrödinger's cat, the very first
476. 14:10thought experiment in history of
477. 14:12multiverse theory where an unseen cat in
478. 14:14a box with a dish of poison food and
479. 14:16normal food is both alive and dead at
480. 14:18the same time in two different
481. 14:20realities. There could actually be a
482. 14:21parallel here with Sandy eating Oxy when
483. 14:24cat food was right there on the floor.
484. 14:25And so the operator played by Cory
485. 14:27Barker could be a kind of bored company
486. 14:28representative who has some kind of
487. 14:30telecommunicative access to these
488. 14:31ultimate realities through some kind of
489. 14:33radio or phone device in his
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