Brilliant!

Rating: 10/10 (3 March 2001)

Carrie is one of the best movies I know. I have a personal rating system, where movies can get between 0 (money wasted) and 15 (increderiffic all time favorite) and Carrie gets a 14.5. There are only very few things that keep it from getting a 15, namely some zooms which disturb the movie a little. But other than that this is a brilliant movie. Brian De Palma plays with structure, he uses the classic 5 act structure instead of the Syd Field 3 act structure. He places the climax far within the movie instead of at the end. After the prom, there is no more turning back. The end is obvious and there is no way to turn it. Brilliant. And the climax scene itself, where maybe 10 seconds of real time are stretched into several minutes of brilliant film time is just breathtaking. A true masterpiece. Brian De Palma, you are a genius.