Passion is generally considered a good thing, obsession a bad one. But are they really two separate, diverse things or merely different degrees of the same phenomenon? In other words, when a worthy passion is overdone, does it degenerate into an obsession?Yet consider the movie, based on a novel, "Magnificent Obsession," in which a worthy subject ennobles an obsession. Still, obsessive behavior of any kind is general…
SOURCE: John Simon at 08:29AM on July 8, 2013