As Bonnie Raitt famously sings, “ I can’t make you love me if you don’t. ” The consequences of forcing someone to do just that prove horrifying in Obsession . Writer-director Curry Barker, in his directorial debut, explores what the fantasy of wanting your crush to love looks like in reality when that love is not given freely. It’s a deeply unsettling and eerie watch, balanced by its levity. In some scenes you won’t know whether to laugh with disturbing discomfort or be horrified. It’s usually the latter, but the humor reveals the absurdity of forced love itself.

Bear (Michael Johnston) really likes Nikki (Inde Navarrette) and hasn’t worked up the courage to tell her, despite being given the opportunity at one point when she asks him directly. When he wishes on an object he found at

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