Anyone who watches Stephen King's films must recognise that he has a
fascination with writers.
"IT",
"The Shining"
and several other King adaptations put writers at the centre of their stories,
but "Misery" contains the most personal horror of all.
I'm not saying that Paul Sheldon is a direct representation of Stephen King,
What I mean is that King has created a character that he can relate to and
imagine what would be the most horrifying to him as a writer.
Annie Wilkes doesn't just imprison Paul. She forces him to watch his new
unpublished novel go up in flames. For a writer, that must be a special kind
of horror. It's not simply losing a manuscript. It's watching something you've
created being deliberately destroyed while you're powerless to stop it.
This is Stephen King's private horror hidden inside all the more conventional
horrors of the story. He writes horror stories for his readers, but in
"Misery" he's imagined a horror specifically for himself: not being killed,
not being tortured, but being forced to watch his own words disappear in
flames.
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