Yeah that's the one. It started off pretty good and it looks great, but then it feminizes the dad, and then suddenly I don't know where the mom is the protagonist and the strong independent female because she's got a job and a career, but she's unhappy because she knows the dads a better parent than her. There's just a lot of stupid sjw stuff going on beneath the whole deal and I tried to turn my brain off from it but it was very hard not to notice the entire time.
I mean the dad character I thought was pretty well done and it was sad that he becomes the wolfman, but the wife just kind of comes out of nowhere and I'm like what is this crap.
I think we're really kind of got lost was not doing more with the locals with him going back up to Oregon in the middle of nowhere. I thought maybe the dude they find in the deer blind was going to morph into an important character but nope. They had the bones to make a really good movie, because I did care about all of the characters except the wife.
So many modern movies have their stories demonstrably worsened by the writers needing to put over the wife/female partner/female character TBA. Mortal Kombat 2 was hurt by this and pretty much every movie I've watched lately had shoehorning-in of girl power at the expense of a male character.
Another movie damaged by this was the (still very good) American version of Speak No Evil. The original European version of Speak No Evil is basically a subtle jab at mass migration and allowing people who don't share your values to take over your living space. It's about a family that basically lets another family stay with them and then accomodates weirder and weirder practices by the visitors, all in the name of "not being rude" despite that their own way of life is being increasingly disrupted. Eventually the visitors turn out to not be very nice after all, hell they're quite malevolent, and the accommodating home family pays the price for being such pussies. This culminates with the somewhat iconic scene of the home family's husband going "why are you doing this?" and the visitor family's husband going "because you let us". Really fucking chilling, especially if considering the real-world allegory of reaping what you sow.
.........and then there's the American version of Speak No Evil. It's still a good horror movie, and James McAvoy turns in a banger performance as a ruthless alpha psychopath. However, they removed all allusions and allegories to mass migration, and they also made the home family's husband this short, beta bitch. The wife in the home family is now the one who does everything for the whole movie, even the physical parts where someone has to fight, she does it. There's one scene where the husband has a chance to stand up for himself and do something, and the fucking wife comes running in (after winning her own fight) to rescue him and bail him out.
Both versions of the movie are good, but the European version actually says something chilling, while the American version is too SJW'd up to be great or say anything of substance.
Anyway, Obsession was really good and they didn't bend over backwards to put anyone over, the female lead was actually allowed to show vulnerability, things weren't black and white...it was just an interesting movie top to bottom and deserves all the success.
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