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No threads on 2013's CARRIE, here or in sci-fi?
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I was amused to read several reviews saying it felt like an X-Men mutant-discovering-her-powers sequence stretched to film length. The whole notion of a bullied high school girl wreaking havoc with supernatural abilities might have felt fresh and startling back in the '70s, but now it just sounds like an old Smallville rerun.
What? The book was pretty much about school bulling and a school shooting with supernatural twist. People aren't suppose to root for a mass murderer.
Okay, so she can be one of the bad mutants. Point still stands.What? The book was pretty much about school bulling and a school shooting with supernatural twist. People aren't suppose to root for a mass murderer.
No, the book was told more or less as a massive flashback/recreation of events and the framing device was this Government Commission investigating telekinetics questioning the survivors and trying to figure out what happened.
The movie discard all that to tell a linear story, though the end of the remake has the Commission questioning Sue Snell over what happened.
The movie discard all that to tell a linear story, though the end of the remake has the Commission questioning Sue Snell over what happened.
Hollywood casting is unreal. The typical Hollywood look for almost all the females means that Moretz by comparison looks like a side of beef. Moretz is a lovely young woman, which only highlights the point that Hollyweird shouldn't have gotten the name for the politics.
Even worse, given the relationship between body mass and menses, Carrie looks like the only one capable of regular menstruation, not the abnormally late maturing one. And such ignorance must surely have been preserved by more than a few years home schooling. I must say I'm impressed by a state government that insists on home-schooling parents being qualified. Doesn't match my limited experience with home schoolers.
Worst, the bullying just seems like out of date fiction. Nowadays, one of the favorite tactics of bullies is queerbaiting. This is especially true for females, for whom accusations of lesbianism (or in another context, boasts) serve as social sanctions enforcing heterosexuality. It would be nothing nowadays for another student to directly interrogate her for her failure to engage in sex.
Perhaps if they'd actually updated the movie to include modern people?
Even worse, given the relationship between body mass and menses, Carrie looks like the only one capable of regular menstruation, not the abnormally late maturing one. And such ignorance must surely have been preserved by more than a few years home schooling. I must say I'm impressed by a state government that insists on home-schooling parents being qualified. Doesn't match my limited experience with home schoolers.
Worst, the bullying just seems like out of date fiction. Nowadays, one of the favorite tactics of bullies is queerbaiting. This is especially true for females, for whom accusations of lesbianism (or in another context, boasts) serve as social sanctions enforcing heterosexuality. It would be nothing nowadays for another student to directly interrogate her for her failure to engage in sex.
Perhaps if they'd actually updated the movie to include modern people?
True, but I don't count that against Moretz. Spacek managed to look like someone pushed so far that she let raw power do her speaking for her. Moretz looked like she knew what she was doing and enjoyed it. I actually liked that more.
