Misery

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“After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.”

Horror does not equal gore. And the perfection that is “Misery” proves it. The mass majority of the film is two actors in one room showing that minimal space can be made perfect by maximum talent.

“I’m your number one fan.” This is a sentence that authors all over the world, even me, long to hear. But do we really think about what that could entail? Annie Wilks shows us how, with a little nudge from mental illness, we can truly believe that fiction is our reality.

Yes, she tends to him. Yes, she helps his physical body heal but the emotional and mental abuse she puts on him is so much worse, as is often the case.

When she makes him burn the only copy of hiss new manuscript, you felt it. You feel that she’s going to try and shape reality to her own whim.

SPOILERS FROM THIS POINT

Ultimately, we belong to the reality we choose and one that sledgehammer appears, you know that Annie’s reality is not ours.

There an’re many spoilers (RIP Sharriff) but this movis is the acting. Plain and simple.