Secret Obsession: A Film That Twists, Then Twists Again
Intro
If you’re the kind of person who loves a movie that keeps flipping your perspective, you might just enjoy “Secret Obsession.” It’s the kind of film where, even at the very end, you still feel like it’s pulling one over on you.
The whole thing runs about 100 minutes, and overall the pacing never drags. There are a few scarier moments, but they’re balanced just right. From the very start it gets you doubting this and questioning that, so you never have a spare second to feel bored. And it always manages to convince you to buy into each new angle on what happened, even when two angles are complete opposites. It still successfully changes everything you believe, leading you exactly where the filmmakers want you to go.
Secret Obsession on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/tw/title/80223997
Plot Summary
…(spoilers ahead)…
The film mainly follows a father, Ray, his second wife Joyance, and their daughter Peri. On their way home from a Thanksgiving celebration, they stop to rest at a run-down roadside rest area. There, Ray and his daughter take a fall together into a construction site. Ray himself only gets some scrapes, but his daughter hurts her elbow in the fall. Because his beloved daughter is injured, Ray pushes through the pounding in his own head and rushes her to the hospital, driving like mad.
After they arrive, the doctor decides Peri needs a CT scan. A few hours pass, and Ray wakes up from a nap only to find his beloved wife and daughter nowhere in sight. When he angrily asks the staff when on earth his wife and child will be done with their exam, they tell him that from start to finish, Ray was the only patient who came in. There was no wife, no daughter…
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All in all, it’s more than just a mindless thrill ride, yet it doesn’t demand that you constantly puzzle over it either. It keeps you looking forward to the ending, and even as the credits roll you may still have lingering doubts about how the story wraps up. It’s a rare gem of a film, and I’d recommend it to those of you who don’t mind a bit of suspense but also aren’t into action flicks where people are punching each other the whole time.