We begin to see a light in CARRIE’s spirit, a light that her mother – and Chris – threaten to extinguish, forcing CARRIE to exercise the limits of her newfound power on prom night turning a dream into a nightmare from hell.Ĭhloe Grace Moretz is a refreshing delight as CARRIE. Diverting herself from the pain of bullying and her mother’s cloistered psychosis, she focuses on the wonder of learning about her gift, and celebrating the joy of being asked to the prom. As she comes into her own, she finds that she has telekinetic powers. So ashamed by her own part in some of Chris’ schemes, Sue even foregoes the prom and has Tommy ask CARRIE.Īnd while CARRIE gets caught up in the wonder of “the prom” after all the terrible things that have happened to her, she also experiences something else wonderful. Seeing the horror in Chris’ misconduct and attitude does have a positive effect though as Chris’ one-time best friend Sue and her boyfriend Tommy try to make amends for the torment Chris has repeatedly unleashed on CARRIE. Unfortunately, Miss Desjardin’s efforts come at a price – Chris wanting vengeance against CARRIE. Her gym teacher Miss Desjardin takes a very maternal and protective interest in CARRIE, going to great lengths to punish CARRIE’s tormentors, in particular, leader of the hateful pack, Chris.
The result is that CARRIE’s awkwardness and insecurity makes her the victim of horrific bullying when she enters public school. When “bad”, her mother locks her in a closet plastered with crucifixes of Christ in various states of torment or repose, demanding prayer and repentance. No tv, no street smarts, no real interaction with people let alone peers. Home-schooled until high school, Carrie has been shielded and sheltered from the world. The result is both inspired and inspiring.įor the uninitiated, Carrie White is a shy high school girl who has been raised by a deeply devout far-right Fundamentalist mother. But, going beyond that, Peirce herself digs deep into King’s source material, shining a light on the super-hero aspect of Carrie White herself and her telekinetic power, thus elevating, layering and texturing the emotional levels of the story. He manages to take a social issue, social cultural issue that doesn’t die, doesn’t go away and turn it into a grand horrific story about adolescence.”įor Peirce, at the heart of this 2013 reimagination is the deepening of understanding and backstory of Margaret which then gives us a point of reference for the volatile mother-daughter dynamic as well as an empathy and sympathy for CARRIE. He just thought about them and thought about how hard it must have been for them.and it all ended up being the basis for this story. Both of them were extremely marginalized one by her extremely religious parents and the other one by poverty.They both dies in their 20’s for various reasons. Then he remembered these two girls that he’d grown up with.
His wife pulled it out of the trash.He was working as a janitor at the time and he noticed a tampon dispenser in the girls’ locker room and asked his wife what it was. If you read Stephen King’s book on writing, he talks about how that was his first published novel and he had thrown it in the trash. That novel is really an extraordinary novel. Such a classic, it begs the question: Why? Why a new version? Why a remake? Why a reimagination? The answer is because this new 2013 CARRIE from director Kimberly Peirce is just that – a reimagination that harkens back to the original source material – King’s novel.Īs noted by Julianne Moore, who plays CARRIE’s mother Margaret, “I think it’s important to note how strong the source material is. Most of us are familiar with the story of CARRIE be it through Stephen King’s novel or the classic 1976 Brian de Palma film starring Sissy Spacek, complete with the now iconic blood-drenched imagery etched into our collective consciousness.
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