Carrie1976

There’s nothing to do with Satan, Mama. It’s me, me. The way Carrie defines telekinesis as a form of control that isn’t only about movement but also about change, her power and strangeness are all about growing up and becoming more powerful, independent. She doesn’t even need to flick her hand, her desire is her power. To Carrie’s mom, a teenager with power to defy her mother can only come from the devil. She loves the ideal Carrie she has in her mind and hates everything that her real daughter is doing. Hates how she is not as under her control as she used to be. I hate to say it, but some of the mom’s attitudes with religion didn’t feel all that far from what I know personally as someone who grew up religious. In the film, it’s scary how the mom can quickly justify whatever she does by believing she is not fighting Carrie, but fighting the Devil, and saving her daughter. It’s important how genuine and sincere the prom scene is. That’s her dream. And it’s actually going well, even if some things seem out of place.  And then, a bucket of blood. All her pain becomes visual. I LOVE the color and split-screen in this scene. And laughter. I believe the way the scene is edited is meant for us to understand that Carrie’s perception of it is making it way worse than it is in reality. Some people ARE laughing at her but not everyone.   The exaggerated way she sees her own pain is the only thing that would make all the murder that comes after not feel silly. In some ways her attacks are cathartic and in other ways, extremely tragic. We wish it just hadn’t come to this, teenagers don’t have it all figured out. But we do feel her pain with her.