Bob calls me Misery. It’s one of the more endearing endearments he tosses my way on occasion and I think he takes it from the 1990 Stephen King movie starring James Caan and Kathy Bates.
Words used to describe that tale of terror are as follows:
dark, witty, brisk, taut, cynical, torturous, drama, thriller, horror, suspenseful, tightly tensioned, dread, scary, wild, bizarre
All that being said, Misery has been compared to Hitchcock’s achievements in "Psycho" in that it entertains without seeming exploitative. I believe THAT is what Penelope is attempting to achieve in her gran mal description of what’s going on in her marriage today – she is attempting to inform rather than entertain (but hey, the “entertainment” value is definitely there, let’s not ignore the guerilla in the room – if it’s too much for you to read, just look away) and in so doing she is being accused of exploitation.
Phooey with that! Her reporting of her basic situation she is faced with is what makes the retelling so serious and so compelling – by comparing the sometimes nightmarish, desperate scenario she finds herself in against our own “sometimes nightmarish, desperate scenarios”…well, I hope you get the picture. We all benefit from her disclosures - even her husband, though he may not yet see it, immersed in the situation as he probably is. Penelope brings us humor, not at his expense but at her own. It’s this ability to laugh that helps us survive our ordeals. And she has the sense God gave a mule to laugh at herself. Like I do, when Bob calls me “Misery”.
Maureen Sharib
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