{"id":11427,"date":"2021-06-14T19:38:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T19:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/?p=11427"},"modified":"2021-06-15T19:56:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T19:56:58","slug":"liseys-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/liseys-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisey’s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Even with a stellar cast, Stephen King\u2019s adaptation of his \u201cLisey\u2019s Story\u201d is confusing, filled with Bool clues and flashbacks that get darker and even more brutal by the episode. King insisted on writing the screenplay, but he knows the story backwards and forwards. If you haven\u2019t read the book, you may not know what\u2019s going on. This is more than a horror trip. It\u2019s also a sentimental love story laced with mystery and violence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The relationships between the characters are more than strained as Lisey (Julianne Moore) tries to cope with the death of her popular author husband Scott (Clive Owen) and his sordid past. The story stems from Scott\u2019s being shot at the groundbreaking of a library that will house his works. A literary professor\/fan (Ron Cephas Jones) wants possession of Scott\u2019s unpublished works.\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”11437″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”11429″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”11434″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Chilean director, Pablo Larrain, creates ethereal landscapes accompanied by menacing music as the story bounces back and forth in Lisey\u2019s life showing the difficult relationship with her husband. When he goes drinking with friends instead of having dinner with her, Lisey says, \u201cI don\u2019t need a creative drunk in my life.\u201d Even though they\u2019re supposedly madly in love, there is not much chemistry on the screen between Owen and Moore. The scenes of the wedding on a beach some 20 years ago when they aren\u2019t made to look particularly younger, dancing like stick figures to \u201cGood Lovin\u2019 \u201c is not very convincing. They are so stiff and don\u2019t really look truly in love.<\/p>\n

The most interesting characters are Lisey\u2019s sister, Amanda (Joan Allen) who is in a catatonic state, and creepy stalker Jim Dooley, (Dane DeHaan- Spider Man 2<\/i>, and TV Series including The Stranger, Zero,Zero, Zero<\/i>). Allen has much more range as an actress, but does the best she can with what she is given here. Dooley is hired to scare Lisey into giving up Scott\u2019s unpublished manuscripts. There are episodes that are absolutely brutal, but it doesn\u2019t stop there, and neither does Lisey in her bout with grief over losing her husband.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Scott\u2019s horrific childhood with his deranged father (Michael Pitt) and older brother\u00a0 <\/span>Paul, (Clark Furlong) is enough to make you turn away. Young Scott (Sebastian Eugene Hansen) is played with surprising depth for a young actor. No wonder Scott\u2019s mother took off. There is cutting, torture, spiritual superstitions and \u201cBool\u201dclues leading to some \u201cprize.\u201d After Scott\u2019s murder, clues keep popping up for Lisey to discover. There is a certain amount of curiosity about where they are leading, but the story line and even the dialogue, at times, is so muddled, that it\u2019s hard to stay with it.\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”11433″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”11432″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”11430″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]Lisey\u2019s other sister, Darla (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is the only breath of fresh air as she flits in and out of scenes, trying to make sense of what\u2019s going on, and hold the craziness at bay.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Scott ascribes to the Boo’ya Moon’s waters, Ethereal images of the moon over a lake as healing, but they are not calming enough to offset the brutality shown throughout. If you\u2019re a Stephen King fan and have read the book, you already know what you\u2019re in for. This is intense, dark and disturbing material that could have woven the thread more adeptly through the needle. Sometimes we worry about Stephen King.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Apple TV + \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>8 episodes \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Psychological Drama, Horror\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BqcI0kk-Cts” el_width=”80″ align=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Even with a stellar cast, Stephen King\u2019s adaptation of his \u201cLisey\u2019s Story\u201d is confusing, filled with Bool clues and flashbacks that get darker and even more brutal by the episode. King insisted on writing the screenplay, but he knows the story backwards and forwards. If you haven\u2019t read the book, you may not know what\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11427"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11440,"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427\/revisions\/11440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}