And what I want to say briefly here today is about the metaphor and meaning of this movie, or the story of Carrie the Witch. Before watching this movie, I hadn't seen the old 1976 movie, but I had read Stephen King's original book very seriously. . . I think that although this work is often labelled as "horror", I don't feel any "horror" in it - so far, one of the most terrifying works I think is probably Howard Philip Lovecraft's "The Myth of Cthulhu" - what really makes me uncomfortable about "Carrie the Witch" is its sadness, its despair, which projects Carrie's tragedy and destruction The horror of reality - I once wrote such a Weibo: "After reading
yours The eyes are full of pure yearning/And the reality is so cruel and ruthless
Although the 2013 version of "Witch Carrie" moved the story to the 21st century, from the main plot and many details, this film is still very loyal to the original. I once saw a film review on Time.com that the characters in this movie were too facialized. I don’t think it’s the film’s fault. The story itself is a metaphorical and facialized story—Carrie is a symbol of each of us. Beautiful and innocent dreams, Chris and other girls symbolize the vulgar and cold reality, and Carrie's mother, I have not fully figured out whether it symbolizes the hypocrisy of the world, or the worry about abstinence and religious fanaticism, or other. . . . Although Carrie has those terrifying superpowers, in fact, in the framework of the whole story, she is actually an ordinary girl - she longs for beautiful and sexy clothes, and she, like all girls, wants to hold a girl Beautiful boy's arms walk into the prom scene. . The moment when Kolo, who was wearing a long prom dress, appeared on the stage, was so amazing. . But the most cruel polarities of reality smashed this common but so fragile dream - when the bucket of dark red blood was poured down, all hopes were extinguished, and all dreams collapsed. . . When Carrie crouched on Tommy's body and cried, in the center of the shocking pool of blood seemed to be a beautiful hope that had already died and was still bleeding. The world could not contain a girl's beautiful dream, so in the dark moment when hope was extinct, kindness , conscience and reason withered away, everyone destroyed Carrie's hope, and the ghost that exploded after hope was dead in turn destroyed everyone. . . Carrie's madness is actually the film's cautionary tale—you can't imagine the madness that erupts under the weight when all one's hopes are lost. . . The cruelty of reality, I think, is the scariest part of this story.
The big difference between this version of "Carrie" and the original is its ending. . . The paragraph in which Carrie cries with her mother's body in her arms is not in the book. . . When Chloe cried out to Sue "I want my mom back", it was so heart-wrenching - this girl was still kind, even though her mother had treated her so cruelly and even tried to kill her. . . Facing the ultimate destruction, the girl is so helpless and pitiful. . . Maybe her madness kills a lot of people, but like Sue's monologue at the end of the movie - "But she looks like a normal human / just like you and me / she also has hope and fear / we forced her / until she Collapse" - doesn't each of us have the hope of collapsing in front of reality?
Finally, for the sake of the little goddess, I want to say one more thing: Chloe's actions after Carrie's collapse were indeed exaggerated and contrived. . . Oops. . . But before, the little goddess interpreted Carrie's helplessness, nervousness, and nervousness very well, and the climax of destruction at the end was even more helpless and heartbreaking. This is already very good, very good. . . Originally, I thought the fleshy little goddess was sexy no matter how you looked at it, and in this movie, Khloe's two bath scenes were enough to make my nose bleed. Well, for the metaphor and meaning of this movie, I will give it 7 points. As a brainless fan of the little goddess, I will unconditionally add 2 points - 9 points, dedicated to the first movie I watched in 2014 - "The Witch Carrie".
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