https://padlet.com/220106c/rngxk2wyvxdxp63a Misery (1990) en-us 2023-10-12 14:02:57 UTC 2023-10-12 14:05:50 UTC hello@padlet.com 220106c https://padlet.com/220106c/rngxk2wyvxdxp63a/wish/2743702296 2023-10-12 14:04:36 UTC https://padlet.com/220106c/rngxk2wyvxdxp63a/wish/2743702296 220106c https://padlet.com/220106c/rngxk2wyvxdxp63a/wish/2743703087
The film follows the three-act structure just like how most films follow, that being said, the film starts with the set-up, wherein we get introduced to a forty-five-year-old man named Paul Sheldon, a bestselling author, who was finalizing a book in the Silver creek in Colorado. As he finishes the book, he celebrates with a glass of champagne, and one cigarette. After celebrating he starts to head for home, unaware of the snow storm that is approaching. The roads were filled with white, and like every other snow storm, it was raining white as well. As Paul was navigating through the snow, he loses control over the rear end of his car, thus him falling off the road and flipping his car over, which renders Paul both disabled and unconscious. He was then found and “saved” by an unknown person who was weirdly driving around in the snow storm too. When Paul gained consciousness, he found himself in a quaint room, bed ridden and in excruciating pain, he then gets introduced to his “savior” Annie Wilkes, a nurse, who rescued Paul after his crash and brought him back to her humble abode to tend to him and his road to recovery, or so that was what Paul believed. As Paul is being tended to by Annie, she confesses and requests that she be able to read the manuscript of the book he just finished, of course Paul allows her to.

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We then move to Act 2, the confrontation, wherein an actual confrontation occurs. In said confrontation you have Annie asking if it were okay that she said her current thoughts on the manuscript he wrote, to which Paul was okay with. So, Annie then told Paul how she thinks the amount of swearing and cursing in the manuscript was absurd and unnoble for his way of writing. He then makes a remark saying that just how he grew up and that was the environment he lived in, which led to Annie having an outburst of anger towards Paul, which also led to her spilling the soup she had made for Paul, and then accusing Paul for making her spill the soup. Skipping forward to the next scene, we have Paul waking up in the middle of the night to Annie furiously shouting at Paul about how he “killed” Misery (the name of the main character in his books). In these parts of the film is where we start to see who Annie really is. In Act 2, we get a long string of events wherein we see Paul escaping his room to look for a way to leave, but is always cut short by Annie returning home from the store or the town, another event being Paul grabbing multiple packs of “Novril'' and hoarding the ones Annie gave him during the times of his meals, and more events where Paul is acting as if he was happy with Annie and where they were. He plotted to let Annie drink the “Novril” he hoarded and let her overdose on that, but as usual plans didn’t go well. To which he resorts to grabbing a knife in the kitchen and then hiding it under his bed, but again plan B didn’t go as planned. Annie finds out that Paul had secretly been escaping his room and looking for an escape, which enrages Annie, thus leading to her barging into the room where she holds Paul captive and drugs him to fall asleep. Paul then wakes up to him tied to his bed with Annie on his side. Annie says that she knows that he’s been escaping and that she knows Paul found the scrapbook of everything about her past and herself. Paul then tries to grab the knife he hid under his bed but fails because Annie had already found it. Annie then tells a story to Paul, which led to her breaking his feet.

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This is when act 3 begins, this is where Paul realizes that he had to act as if he were in love with Annie so that he could get on her soft side and catch her off guard, which he did. He then continues on the act and asks Annie to bring him the 3 things he always uses to celebrate after finishing a book. As Annie goes to gather those 3, Paul then prepares himself by grabbing the lighter fluid, and matches, dousing the manuscript he wrote in lighter fluid and crumples up a piece of paper to use as a torch to light up the manuscript. Annie then returns with everything at hand, and the final battle begins. Paul has a dialogue about how he took a page from her book which he then proceeds to light the crumpled-up paper to light up the manuscript. Annie screamed and howled, Paul used the heavy metal typewriter to use as an object to hit her head with, which then led to them exchanging fatal blows to each other, but most of the blows were taken by Annie who then tripped and fell onto the hard-sharp edge of the typewriter. Paul thought Annie was gone, but however as he was crawling out of the room, Annie pounces on top of him and fights him again, Paul however was able to grab a Pig trophy that was given to Annie and her pet pig Misery, and use it to hit Annie for the final time, which then killed Annie. The movie then skips forward 18 months in time, showing us a walking Paul Sheldon heading towards a restaurant where he talks to his agent/manager about his book on how successful it is. To then he explains how he knows that Annie is gone, yet he still every now and then sees her, but isn’t much affected by it.]]> 2023-10-12 14:05:50 UTC https://padlet.com/220106c/rngxk2wyvxdxp63a/wish/2743704141