If you want to enjoy the suspense genre, the offers of movies and miniseries are varied. However, if you are a lover of this type of content, the name of Stephen King is not unknown to you. This writer, considered the king of horror, has enjoyed a series of film and television adaptations of his works throughout his career, the most recent of which is Lisey's Story.
Lisey's Story is an 8-episode miniseries starring Julianne Moore (Lisey) and Clive Owen (Scott Landon). Whose script was written by Stephen King himself, which makes this proposal an adaptation very close to what the writer wants to express in his novel of the same name published in 2006.
Lisey is the widow of Scott Landon, a famous writer, who a couple of years of his death, must rebuild her life and try to overcome her grief.
Landon's writings were so fabulous that they earned him some fans of his work, so Professor Dashmiel (Ron Cephas Jones) contacts Lisey to ask her to donate her husband's unpublished manuscripts to the University. She flatly refuses because she believes they are a way to keep a part of Scott present.
Lisey has two sisters, Darla and Amanda. Amanda suffers from depression and cuts herself. Her mental condition is weak, and she experiences episodes of catatonia.
In her grief, Lisey has erased some memories of the years lived by Scott's side, but thanks to her efforts to help her sister out of that state that memories with her husband surface in her.
Scott Landon in life published many novels that became Best Sellers, leading him to fame but also to suffer the consequences of this, since the fanaticism of some readers can be so uncontrolled that one of them in a public presentation shoots him.
Landon always said that the stories suffered a conflict with the author as they struggled to come out naturally without much intervention from the writer. Perhaps this was a very subtle way of indicating that much of his work was his own experiences each time he visited a fantasy world called Boo'ya moon, a world where he took refuge but also caused him, terror.
Although Lisey refuses to hand over her husband Scott Landon's manuscripts, a fanatic named Jim Dooley (Dane DeHaan) sets out to take them by force, harassing Lisey and her family. Dooley's obsession could cost Lisey and her sisters their lives, but it is the "Dalivas" (clues) left by her late husband before he died and visits to Boo'ya moon that Lisey will use to fight this madman.
Lisey's Story is a miniseries that should be viewed with a lot of caution, as the first thing I advise is to be clear that Stephen King is not an easy author to read and interpret therefore the miniseries can feel slow and flat with few twists. However, nothing is predictable, and everything is under a sublime literary language that can wrap up many things.
Lisey's Story talks about how difficult it is to overcome grief, about trying to get out of that huge hole that is depression, as well as about rescuing the magical moments lived next to that loved one, and about the games that our brain plays to evade the pain and make it more bearable.
Lisey, by sorting and saving her husband's manuscripts was able to appreciate that she was the person who had the most faith in him as a writer, relieving her violent childhood full of fears and myths. She was able to make a journey in retrospect to understand why Scott took refuge in Boo'ya moon, a place to which she could also have access to finish understanding the stormy essence of this writer but who was happy at his side. Lisey's Story is a journey between reality and imagination.
