The film downplays one of the key themes in the book: Paul's addictions and substance abuse and how that plays into his captivity. The book gives us a lot of backstory about his history of substance abuse; and how he'd recently gotten himself back on track. Being held in captivity; coupled with her feeding him Novril pills all the time, (Novril is a fictional form of codeine; an opiate); has caused Paul to relapse; and he has swung into full on addiction to the Novril/codeine. (These scenes of the drug addicted writer banging away compulsively at the typewriter as a kind of panacea bring up memories not just of The Shining and its substance abusing writer; but also of King himself; who was the real deal and the inspiration for all of this). King himself has said that Annie is a symbol of Paul's own addictions; come to life; holding him captive; trying to kill him.
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