Do SOMETHING bitch!

Yeah I was thinking pretty much the same thing... I guess the people who made the film want us to think that she was to weak from dehydration and/or fear but I can't buy that! One thing I thought of was that she had the car keys in the ignition, she could have used them as a weapon against Cujo. Just stick the keys in his eyes or something and then run to the house, go upstaris and barricade herself with the kid in the bathroom or whatever. At least there would be water in the bathroom... Especially when the kid starts cramping and his eyes rolls back. Jeezes, just take the kid and run inside the house! It's really annoying when women are portrayed as helpless in movies...
In the last part of the movie it annoyed me that the cop didn't check inside the car. Lousy cop! Hello: there's a very dented car with blood on the sides!!! Check inside it for christ sake! And the cop doesn't report back in his radio either. He hears something in the barn and decides to check that up instead of reporting back to base that there's a bloody and mangled car here.
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Uhhhh, you got an average sized woman with a very young child to protect, who's been sitting in a hot car without much water or food for about 24 hours(?) OR longer, which means she's thirsty & weak, and she's supposed to jump out of her car like a Ninja and grab a bat to beat to death a 150+ pound RABID dog that obviously has no moral qualms about ripping her and her child to pieces... or try to outrun it to get to a knife in the house (let's see you accomplish that one!)... or start a fire... where? In her car? This isn't a movie about a heroine (we're not talking Ellen Ripley or Sarah Connor here)... it's a movie about a rabid dog pretty much chewing up whatever it wants to... so get over it! She did SOMETHING... she tried to get to the bat, but she couldn't do it before the rabid dog attacked her... sometimes Stephen King's books are about regular people, not people with superhuman powers, and this is one of them... and by the way, she DOES get into the house at the end... try to keep up.

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Am wondering why the OP thinks it would be easy to get out of that situation? If I were in the same situation with my son I would be beyond terrified.

The fact that she does have him to protect is what made her so cautious about acting. She couldnt risk him being left alone. If I were alone I might be a little more brazen, i.e trying to outrun the dog to the house or whatever. But risking leaving my son behind, alone and frighened? Never.

I thought she kicked ass pretty good with that baseball bat once she was able to get to it. Keys? Your joking right? That dog would have killed her before she was able to do anything with her keys. It had already killed three grown men, one being a cop. Who do you think she is Wonder Woman?

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"What about the goddamn piranhas?"
"They're eating the guests, sir."

A: She's a mother, not Wonder Woman. Normal mothers won't leave their kids alone and frightened. I don't have kids of my own but if I did I wouldn't leave them unless there was no other choice.

B: You clearly haven't read the book have you? The events in the movie are pretty close to what happens in the book. There are no special or supernatural powers at work. At the risk of repeating myself, the mom is a normal everyday woman with a child to protect--not Wonder Woman.

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Also, she was expecting people to show up. Owner of the house, mailman, someone. She just was kind of waiting for someone to show up. Once she realized that wasn't going to happen, both she and her son were weakened, dehydrated, and in serious trouble.
And like was stated above, many of Kings characters are just ordinary people. I myself, am terrified of dogs, I don't think I could have gotten out of the car no matter what. She was braver than I would have been in that situation. I would have cried right along with the kid.

I wasn't angry at her but I was definitely emotional and covered my eyes many times. I wasn't surprised that she stayed in the car and waited for help, because I probably would've done the same if I had my kid in the car and/or were injured. However, I couldn't believe that after the dog was stabbed she left it there and, even though she aimed the gun at him, she didn't shoot it! I would've shot it at least 3 times after all that trouble.

Oh well. It was an interesting movie.