Gerald's Game

To Nick Toti:

This week I watched the Movie Gerald’s Game which was just released today and is based off of a 1993 Stephen King novel. Jessie and Gerald are a married couple with a downhill marriage hoping to spice things up with a kinky weekend away in the countryside. Gerald has a fantasy that includes him handcuffing Jessie up to the bed. Things turn bad when Jessie feels uncomfortable and Gerald has a heart attack. Still tied up to the bed Jessie has to get away before she ends up just like him.

I think that you would enjoy this film for its thrilling qualities. You tend to produce films that have some horror it may be clowns or ghosts but this movie did not have that. What it did have was a lot of realism. This movie was depicted in a lot of planned out and thoughtful detail so much to the point you could imagine being there. The portion of the movie leading up to Gerald’s death was very quick, just letting you know what you needed to.  Shortly after his death the small details come into play. For example, while on their way to the house in the woods they see a stray dog that’s hungry and she tries to feed. Then there’s the door that they accidentally forget to close on their way into the house. These two details lead up to the hungry dog coming in to snack on Gerald putting Jessie in a lot of shock and horror as the dog tears pieces of him off to eat. But these details are only one reason the movie was so enjoyable

Throughout the movie Jessie begins to see things which include her and Gerald talking to her and telling her what she can and cannot do. This really goes in deeper and gives you an insight of what is going on mentally. Through this the story gets so much deeper even going back to her childhood and why she felt so uncomfortable with Gerald’s requests. Also shown through this was her thought process leading up to her escape. It runs through everything she did to escape and her thought process leading up to that idea that pulled you in deeper and deeper. It’s one thing to see a movie on just the outside but to see the people and see the thought and contemplation really allows you to put yourself in that person’s shoes. All of this made me love this movie so much more, I felt like I was right there with her tied to that bed, scared and afraid of what could happen next.

I think that with your experience and what you like in your own movies you would really enjoy this movie. It’s a great movie that you can really get into and enjoy and I would suggest it to anyone that likes suspenseful, thrilling movies.