Curry Barker was named as a director with Milk & Serial, a $800 feature film published in clear on the YouTube comic sketch channel that he shares with Cooper Tomlinson. Obsession is therefore a semi-debutt: second feature film, but the first with a real production budget. Only hype or new cult? Let’s discover it together with the cinema from May 14th.
Obsession: desideri pericolosi
Bear is completely cooked by Nikki.
It is understandable: he is a twenty-year-old shy and socially improvised, living with his cat in the house belonged to his grandmother and working in a tool shop. She is extroverted, charismatic and beautiful, always looking for something better than their small existence.
When it seems that Nikki is ready to leave their sleeping town forever, Bear breaks a mysterious “bastoncino of desire” expressing the hope that Nikki falls in love with him.
The problem is that the desire comes true… far too much. And this new Nikki could be ready to do anything to ensure Bear’s love and loyalty.
Orribile esuberanza
Recently we talked about how many films appear as sensorially unpleasant experiences, but without real conceptual, narrative or artistic thickness to justify the unpleasantness of experience. Obsession is exactly the opposite: a film as disturbing as stiloso, capable of stirring a few cryolinos (and a room exit, in my projection) how to blow up the whole room in genuine laughter. It is a film that has clearly in mind not only what it’s like to make a film, but above all what it’s like to say to watch a movie, perhaps in the forces of its poor team experience.
And it reminds us that as long as we have a good script, the one in which we live is a golden age, in which a single million dollars can give rise to such a hilarious film (although keeping in mind that horror is traditionally the economic genre to produce by antonomasia).
Talento all’opera
The discoveries in this case are two: Curry Barker and Inde Navarrette.
The first stepped into the world of Horror midbrow with a film with very solid fundamentals, which manages to take one of the oldest narrative styles of the world (the so-called monkey’s paw, “Be careful about what you want”) and to re-elaborate it with a deeply contemporary sensibility, which combines the relational anxieties of gen Z to an absurd theatre on the theme of consensus and control. We are not surprised that this film has already earned him a contract with the A24 to reimagine the series of Don’t open that door.
The second one, already navigated into the world of television with supporting roles in 13 Reasons Why and Supermen & Lois, demonstrates that he can keep the weight of a whole film with a ductile and sparkling interpretation, capable of passing (believably, that is the difficult part) from the adorable to the psychotic, from the serious charismatic to the deeply disturbing. If in five years it will not be a bona fide Hollywood star will be a real sin, and a loss for the whole movie system.
Il cast
Michael Johnston is Bear, a twenty-year-old shy and socially improvised, who only wants to get the love of his childhood friend, the extrovert and sparkling Nikki, interpreted by Inde Navarrette. Barker’s historical partner Cooper Tomlinson plays Ian, partner and best friend of Bear’s, while Megan Lawless is Sarah, friend of the group who feels secret feelings for Bear.
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