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A Wish for Love Turns into Obsession and Madness
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A Wish for Love Turns into Obsession and Madness

From Dong-A Ilbo · () Korean

Translated from Korean and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • “Obsession” follows Bear Bailey, who uses a toy called One Wish Willow after failing to confess his feelings to childhood friend Nikki Freeman.
  • His wish that Nikki love him more than anyone else produces an unsettling response and leads toward catastrophe.
  • The film opens on the second day of the month and had earned $501.66 million in North America after its May release, according to the article.

Bear Bailey has loved his childhood friend Nikki Freeman for years, but his attempt to confess his feelings fails because he lacks confidence. Desperate over what he sees as his own inadequacy, he remembers a toy bought at an antique shop.

The toy, called One Wish Willow, supposedly grants a wish when someone makes one and then breaks it. Bear makes his request as a joke: “Make Nikki Freeman love me more than anyone else in the world.”

Make Nikki Freeman love me more than anyone else in the world.

— Bear BaileyHe makes the wish after failing to confess his feelings to Nikki.

The answer is immediate and disturbing: “Bear, she loves you so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so much.” What begins as a desire for unreturned love becomes an obsession, forming the basis of the psychological horror film “Obsession.”

The film opens on the second day of the month. After its North American release in May, it earned $501.66 million, or about 687.3 billion won, and reached fifth place among the highest-grossing horror films in history. The article notes that only three films before “Obsession” had surpassed $500 million: “It” (2017), “The Sixth Sense” (1993), and another title whose name is cut off in the provided text.

Bear, she loves you so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so much.

— One Wish WillowThe toy’s disturbing response turns Bear’s wish into an obsession.
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Originally published by Dong-A Ilbo in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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