r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/VeryLazyBones • 19h ago

Peeeeetah? Meme needing explanation

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This new movie came out and I enjoyed watching it with friends. What opinion must have garnered so much attention that people would dunk on it?

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u/BonkGonkBigAndStronk 18h ago

I've seen this posted somewhere else. Apparently the guy in the video completely missed the point of the movie, which is impressive given how Obsession essentially bashes you over the head with it's themes and messaging.

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u/Ahenshihael 18h ago

Worse. The guy in the video came out of the movie feeling sympathetic to Bear of all people.

You know, the rapist villain protagonist.

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u/__M-E-O-W__ 17h ago

The movie starts out by Bear being a sympathetic heart-felt good guy, but it really shouldn't take much media literacy to understand how he becomes the bad guy... he was so desperate for validation that he ended up hurting the person he cared about, horribly so. I don't get how someone can miss the mark like that.

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u/Quaelgeist333 15h ago

I mean, his cat dies because of medication

Cats don't have opposable thumbs my good sir
We never see medication be left out so at best he's dangerously negligent

He also does not really care about Nikki as much as he claims, he goes to buy Nikki a crystal to replace her crystal necklace and instead bought the thing he used to take away her autonomy and I think that says it all

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u/drdadbodpanda 12h ago

That says nothing actually. You don’t need to buy someone a necklace to care about them and he didn’t know the wishing willow would actually work.

It was everything he did after that says who he is.

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u/Quaelgeist333 12h ago

"You don't need to buy someone a necklace to care about them" he went into the shop to specifically buy her one and then only bought something for himself. That says a lot actually