An Evil Cosmology

Rating: 8/10 (11 October 2005)

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Carrie is perhaps the cruelest and most pessimistic depictions of female society on film. It is also brutally funny. Humor grounds the movie. It also disarms us, and makes the movie all the more powerful by juxtaposition. The horror is not in anything tangible, but in how horrible things act as metaphors for female society and its inner workings.
I only caught the last half hour of the TV remake, but from what I saw, that version had Billy Nolan masterminding the prank with Chris being uncertain about carrying it out. This completely blows the dynamic of the original movie.
One other thing I found very interesting about it is how the physical world, dream world and paranormal world must all be accepted as *true* for the final, dismal, message of the movie to come through. I actually find this movie too painful to watch.
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