Fortnite, the gaping maw devouring pop culture as we know it so it can feed it into an AI-driven pipeline that cannot resist another skin to sell to its millions of players, is finally bringing Nikki, the titular obsessor, to its battle royale so she can snipe Sabrina Carpenter and a robot who looks like Sonic the Hedgehog and then dance on their corpses. Almost like she’s a puppet with no control over her body.
That’s definitely not a major focus though. I felt it more as a sick reveal and confirmation (there are a couple times up to that point where she briefly has conscious control) of what’s really happening there.
That being said, the overall effect of the narrative achieves a very similar goal. It’s just not a victim’s story, it’s a perpetrator’s story. Bear is a fucking coward, and his passivity, willful ignorance, and eventual outright complicity make him a villain. This is a story about how a guy whose initial motivation is not, technically, to cause abuse, is still every bit as much of an abuser.
Your second paragraph felt like it was the intended reading. On the surface it seems like the title refers to Nikki’s newfound obsession with Bear, but it’s a movie about how his obsession with her destroyed both their lives (and more). He is the villain and the real Nikki is trapped watching his cowardice spiral.