Crazy Is As Crazy Does


So I put this pic I made up on Imgur and I think most commenters "get it" but some actually think I'm defending the crazy bitch! I guess you gotta be familiar with the movie "Misery" and especially the quote above "There is a higher justice than that of man; I will be judged by Him." Stephen King fans, like me, know that's what Annie Wilkes says as she's tried for murder years before she meets Paul Sheldon and it's printed as a caption to a newspaper photo of her during that trial. In a pivotal and very suspenseful scene of the movie, a wheelchair-bound Paul Sheldon finds a scrapbook with the newspaper clipping in it, revealing her dark past and confirming her insanity.

Like Annie, thinking she would "benevolently" imprison Sheldon until he makes right by her beloved character Misery, doing the literary world a service by restoring him as a fantasy-romance novelist and destroying the "filthy" gritty reality-based novel he'd just finished before his car accident, this hick County Clerk and her "Holier Than Thou" attitude are eerily similar.

In this clerk's hateful mind she would deny love and defy the law to achieve what, exactly? Does she really think that she knows better than everyone else? Does she even for a second think she'll succeed in overturning a Supreme Court ruling? If she truly does, then she's just as crazy and deluded as Annie Wilkes was in "Misery" when she thought kidnapping and hobbling someone would be a plausible way to right what she saw as a wrong.