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Question for those who haven't read the short story


If you've never read Stephen King's short story, do you understand that this entire thing is a very long revenge plot? I know he talks about trying to get revenge, but are you able to follow his reason for getting the job on the road construction crew and the details that go into the planning of the revenge plot?

I felt that the biggest area in which this movie fell short is in the planning for the revenge. King goes into great detail in the story explaining how the detour would be done, how the hole would be measured and dug, and how it would all be covered up, in a three-day span. I didn't get much of that from the film.

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I felt like they showed enough for me to get the gist of it, though maybe I had to suspend a little disbelief he could do it all on his own (then again there's been stranger things in King stories). What I wondered was how absolutely NO ONE heard what was going on, even as it was down the road; guns go off at certain points, and they're not drastically far from civilization.

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