[From “The Key to Movie Interpretation”]

@S. H. writes

If you study the Movie Production Code, you can interpret recent movies and see where they go wrong.

Look at this scene from the 1990 film Misery. Look at how Katherine Bates is dressed, she’s practically the trad-wife meme wearing a cross. Since she lives in the wilderness, in a way she represents the pioneering independence of heritage America.

She complains about the profanity. He defends the profanity saying, “that’s how we talk.” The code says it doesn’t matter if some people talk that way, it’s the effect on the souls of the viewer.

So the Bates character goes crazy — proving to the viewer that Christian traditional women are evil. They are pent up authoritarians.

Read too in the code how powerful they knew theater to be. And how people confuse the characters with the actors and real life.

Do you have to “early- life” the guy who wrote the screenplay to Misery? Cause you shouldn’t have to!