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Compulsion (2013) - Mystery Behind Obsessions

Compulsion was a movie released on 27th of June 2013. It has been categorized as Drama with slight added Thriller. The cover used to promote the movie was a women holding a huge kitchen knife. Most people gets the impression that this movie was another slashing and blood bursting horror film. Well, it wasn't because it comes more with a drama and lesbianism with shocking twist at the end.


The movie starts with the character named 'Amy' who was very obsessed in cooking foods. At that time, she was rehearsing for her cooking show. She was the type of person who simply loves and enjoy talking especially when it is about cooking. Suddenly, somebody was knocking on the door which interrupted her cooking performance.

Here comes a detective named 'Detective Reynolds'. He was investigating a person by the name 'Saffron' who went missing for the past couple of months. Saffron was actually Amy's neighbor.

As the detective conducts investigation on the apartment where Saffron stayed before she went missing, the movie goes to show what actually happened. Saffron was a very popular actress in her younger days. She had a mother who taught everything she needed to know about the world of entertainment. Unfortunately, her mother sold her out to a person who manages the film industry that she was working for and was sexually harassed.

Saffron asking her mother for the reason 'why?' simply explained her that its because she was a star. It sounds like the Illuminati conspiracy where all famous artists needs to undergo sacrificial procedure just to become very popular. On this case, Saffron's virginity was the sacrifice.

As Saffron got older, she managed to got out from the movie industry and had a change of career. She was now pursuing a career in writing scripts but she was quite having a hard time.

On the other hand, Amy used to have a boyfriend named 'Fred'. Their relationship came to an end when he cheated by having an affair with his co-worker. Fred also got tired of Amy where her great obsession with cooking ends up as his reason.

Amy who was not used being alone in her apartment after their break-up with her boyfriend crave for someone to talk and share her passion. Thus, she had directed her attention to her neighbor Saffron by bringing her foods. As Amy manages to learn more about Saffron, she recognized her as one of her favorite actress. She was a fan which drives her obsession to cook for more foods to Saffron. However, what Amy doesn't know was that Saffron was sick that she can't eat any type of foods to fill her stomach. In fact she was already too skinny and needs some form of medical attention.

One time, Saffron was about to throw all the foods that Amy cooked for her in the garbage but Amy caught her. This had driven Amy to madness forcing Saffron back into her apartment along with the foods that she was about to throw. Amy then forced Saffron to swallow a small piece of the food to ensure that she eat it.

As the result Saffron freaked out and went into the toilet to vomit what she had swallowed. This actually started their close relationship wherein Saffron shared everything about her. Days goes by, Amy doesn't have to bring the food to Saffron's apartment wherein Saffron will be the one to come into Amy's own apartment.

At the near end of the movie, Saffron had finally completed her script with the help of her close friend Amy. Amy had even accompanied Saffron on her presentation but before she was about to begin, a mysterious individual who was the organizer came out from the dark shadow. It then reveals his appearance and recognized by Saffron as the person who harassed her during her younger days.

Saffron went running out leaving her presentation behind. All her work went to nothing that all she had was her friend Amy. The two even had an intimate lesbian sex that lasted for a few minutes on the movie. At that time, Saffron had asked Amy to help her in which she no longer wants to exist in this world.

The movie spared the gruesome details of how Saffron died. Amy whom Saffron entrusted her body granted her wish by cooking and eating her flesh. On the last scene, Amy even serve some left-over to Detective Reynolds. After munching a few of the meats, he even liked it but he just suddenly realized what he had just tasted. The detective was so shocked and frightened that he hurriedly fled out from the scene.

Common Questions:

Where was the neighbor lady?

It was not shown on the movie how Saffron died but most people had speculated that she killed her own self and perhaps with the help of her close friend Amy. Saffron's wish to disappear was fulfilled by her friend through cooking her flesh. The final scene of the movie shows that Amy had a few meats as left-over in which she had serve to Detective Reynolds.

Is the movie a remake?

Yes it was a remake of a movie taken from a Korean Thriller. The premise are all the same which composes of a cook and a writer as the main characters. They also live on an apartment with a door number of 301 and 302. Korean version though does have a bloody end.

1 comment:

  1. Thanx 4 explaining the mystery...
    I was really confused by its ending...
    Thnx once again

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