Bear: How a Coward Became a PREDATOR | Analysing Obsession

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  @stucoofoo · 2 months ago · pinned

  Best vid on this topic I've seen thus far. 🤙👏👏

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• AR

  @arialydia8095 · 2 months ago

  The fact he seems to barely know Nikki, not even knowing she doesn't get on with her dad, and that it took him until someone died to go back to the shop and get more wishes are things I keep thinking about

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• TE

  @TehFreakingGuy · 2 months ago

  He was always a bad guy, it doesn’t matter if he knew the wish was real or not, he did want the wish to be real, he did want her to love him whether she wanted to or not

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• AT

  @attitudeproblem6462 · 2 months ago

  All a “nice guy” needs is the means and the opportunity.😒😒😒

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• LI

  @LivelyParadox · 2 months ago

  From the very first scene Bear had red flags: the way he and Ian just dismiss the waitress's advice and, when Ian is outright rudely passive aggressive to her, Bear does not call him out on it because he is too focused on how dumb he thought he looked (aka how the situation made him feel). Sure he does a half-baked apology to the waitress, but it clearly was only an apology for how he asked her to sit through that because he thought he looked foolish, never acknowledging how they were rude to her. Even his practice "confession" is full of saccharine platitudes with nothing about Nikki's personality except that she was nice to him. Bear constantly centers himself and, while we see the ultimate version of that in the "what's so bad about being with me" scene, he was like that from the very start, just suppressed by his cowardice. That, to me, is one of the most brilliant things about the movie. We don't, by my estimation, see Bear devolve as a person over time. What we see instead, imo, is him revealing who he's always been in the same way politicians do when they go back on their promises after gaining power.

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• JA

  @jamesmcarthur3842 · 2 months ago (edited)

  2 cents incoming: Bear had red flags from the start from my wife's POV. Literally the very first monologue she called him out somehow. She explains it like this, he never cared about Nikki the person, he wanted Nikki the trophy. This made her even more mad when THE BRICK came into play (trying to not spoil things, but those that know know), because now all of a sudden he's doing that??? his love was never actually REAL. Her theory is that scene is ANOTHER reason the spell overall didnt work (theres a layering of why the spell didnt work in her opinion) A comment mentioned Bear didnt even know Nikki didn't get on with her father! After 7 years? Come on. The video brings up if Bear would've changed his wish if he had know, I don't really think he would've in the way people are thinking. It would still be him taking away her right to choose, worded better or not and since his feelings are totally surface and corrupted, there's no wish that would work technically. He would still wish to POSSESS her. Not love her, but have HER love HIM. I'm glad this movie was made so well, a movie that makes us talk about these things enthusiastically is super dope. Good job on this content as well.

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• SA

  @sammybeckett7371 · 2 months ago

  The part that sticks out to me is the part after Sarah is killed and she comes to his side of the car and says “this is all your fault” it doesn’t really get clearer than that

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• JA

  @jamerejackson3233 · 2 months ago

  It crazy messed up that he seriously was okay that this girl was trapped in his own body like tf 🤯

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• AC

  @AccordingtoJexi · 1 month ago

  What I have found most interesting is that most women who watch this move clock Bear from jump street.  That speech at the diner at the beginning already hinted at his potebtial "nice guy"  persona.  Most men don't start seeing him as a villain until much later in the movie.   I would love to see someone do a video on that.

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  @hansgo1760 · 2 months ago

  Being fed a 2-week dead unrefrigerated cat without him smelling the death in his mouth is either a culinary earth-shattering miracle and a spectacular display of how to use spices and aromatics/deodorizing ingredients to a level that can bring heaven on earth…<br><br>or Bear’s own nightmare in its worst form biting his ass long and hard exactly as bear deserves

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• ES

  @esp665 · 2 months ago (edited)

  One of the first ways we see Bear dodge accountability is by putting the blame on the cat for getting into the meds that he left out.<br><br>(I also feel like Nikki is possessed by Bear&apos;s own literal obsession. At the start of the change, she says her cat just died when it was HIS cat, implying that some part of his psyche has found its way into Nikki.)

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  @theinvisibleme4104 · 2 months ago

  This has always been my take... he began a s sad pathetic lo*ser but evolved into a monster

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