Did you sympathize with Annie?
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ElectricWarlock — 10 years ago(September 29, 2015 02:16 PM)
I personally felt sorry for her. Although she did many horrible things I couldn't help but like her. As bad as it sounds she sort of reminded me of myself in that she was rather lonely and got lost in her favorite fictional worlds because she preferred them to the real ones. Other than the killings and violence, I saw a lot of myself in her so that's part of why I could sympathize with her.
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DarklordRB — 10 years ago(December 19, 2015 01:11 AM)
I sort of felt sorry for her in that scene were Paul bashed Annie's head in with that metal pig statue. Of course the scene was so sympathetic in delivery with her final sad look and that music playing as she collapses on Paul dead, also for the idea that she will never read the climax to the new Misery book. I think I have that 'I wanted to see the crazy bitch dead by the end' feeling more with Mrs Carmody from The Mist than with Annie Wilkes.
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HarveyManfredSinJohn — 10 years ago(February 02, 2016 03:51 PM)
The thing is, most of the people who post on the IMDb have probably got a lot more in common with Annie (the obsessed fan) than they do with Paul (the creative genius). And that's the sad truth.
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mjd_subs2 — 9 years ago(April 24, 2016 01:56 AM)
It's been a long time since you posted so I'm late to the discussion. I don't really see why we, the viewers, can't feel BOTH sympathy and disgust for her. People are very complex and nobody gets to the point of sheer madness she portrayed without some type of personal traumas in their own history. It's not as cut and dried as "all bad" or "all good" so it doesn't have to make our reactions/empathy mutually exclusive. It would be nice and neat if it was, but it's not. That's why lawyers spend so much time on jury selection. They know that people don't just listen to the facts of a case. A plaintiff's or defendant's age, race, gender, size, occupation, style of dress and all other kinds of factors go "into" how their case is interpreted.
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IMDB_Vits — 9 years ago(May 16, 2016 06:44 PM)
No- I did feel sorry for her when she said to
PAUL
"You'll never know what it's like for someone like me to lose someone like you" until she pulled out the gun and I remembered how evil she was.
Kathy
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InherentlyYours — 9 years ago(August 03, 2016 10:35 PM)
no. I felt sympathy for the pained actors in MANIAC and NIGHTMARE
http://www.imdb.com/board/10081114/?ref_=nv_sr_5
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AmyJolamb — 9 years ago(October 30, 2016 08:22 PM)
Tough question. I feel empathy for others. I think we are all suppose to feel empathy. When someone is a psychopath it is a mental illness and I feel sorry for them. But, psychopaths do choices of doing right or wrong just like others. Most psychopaths cover and hide crimes showing they know they did wrong. So I feel no empathy for that. You choose wrong then you pay for it.
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Sjbradford — 9 years ago(November 02, 2016 07:30 PM)
One of the more effective passages of the book is when Paul feels some sympathy for her, because he says that every once in a while, he sees the person she would have been if she weren't so mentally broken. He says that those flashes of humanity in some ways made the ordeal even more difficult for him because he couldn't bring himself to completely hate her. Or something like that.
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Pantstrovich — 9 years ago(November 05, 2016 04:37 AM)
After having experienced real people like her, hell no.
In reality, anything seemingly nice they do is only for their own gain. Everything's an act. They're hardly human. They should all be beaten to death with metal pigs.
