"Blood of Menarche", "Superpower", "Prom Queen", these are the three coming-of-age gifts given to Carrie by God, the devil, and classmates. They are also the triple sins in the eyes of the mother - blood curse, witchcraft, intercourse sin.
Tracing back to the first scene, Carrie was discriminated against by her classmates at school. Her first menarche (Parma's "bathroom cleaning" runs through [Razor's Edge], [The Fierce Line], [Phantom Paradise], the result of her tireless homage to her idols) because her mother never learned from scientific The angle taught her about women's cognition of their own bodies, which led to the ridicule and unceremonious fooling of her classmates. When Carrie came home, her mother's first words were, "You are a woman now." Carrie cried aggrievedly, "Mom, why didn't you tell me? My classmates laughed at me." Picking up the Bible and drawing towards her daughter.
At the same time, it was a mantra-like repetition: "God made Eve out of Adam's rib, and Eve brought the raven into the world because of weakness. The name of the raven is sin." "Intercourse is the first sin, and Eve is weakness. Yes." In the eyes of the religiously obsessed, sexually terrified mother, Carrie's menarche meant her first "sin" had fallen. Blood is impure, God's punishment and curse for the tempted Eve.
"First comes the punishment of blood, then comes the punishment of procreation (Genesis 1, verse 6)." At the end, we have learned that the mother's hatred of blood and her fear of sex stemmed from her childhood received religious education. "That night, he looked at me with that look again. It was all because of the cheap whisky. The scary thing was that I enjoyed that feeling so much." A victim of the faith and continues to teach it by example.
As a woman who is guilty in her mother's eyes, Carrie's second "sin" lies in her superpower - Carrie walked out of the fire and died in the fire, and people prepared the stake for witches many centuries ago. We've known since the lights on the bathroom ceiling shattered that Carrie has superpowers (which actually existed before menarche), and that powers magnify infinitely when she's angry, eventually leading to Crazy revenge at the dance.
"God, save this sinful woman! Make her aware of her sins. Tell her that if she is innocent, the punishment of blood will never befall her again." Unfortunately, Carrie was struck by her mother again, and blood fell on her head. At the dance party - Carrie's third bar mitzvah, Palma used a 360-degree rotating slow motion (applied in [The Love Story], [The Killing Line], [Pink Killing Eve]), and the second The sub-softening picture gives the audience a long, impatient dream scene: Carrie dances with her beloved Tom, not having sex, but she gets her love.
Carrie is an adult now. Again - she was covered in blood, but she no longer needed to ask her classmates for help. Resentment outstrips reason, and Carrie begins to attack the crowd like an adult, including some "deserving" thugs, but also some innocent people. At this point, Carrie completed her final rite of passage. The world has taught her the meaning of "cruel" and taught her the survival law of violence. At the dance, Carrie learned so well.
One of Parma's most famous climactic sequences is Carrie being smeared with pig's blood at the ball. Parma's first use of "split screen" was in his [Dionysus in 69]. Dionysus took revenge on the city for the death of his mother. The advantage of this method is that the reflection of the initiator and the observer of an event is simultaneously displayed in the same picture. [Witch Carrie] is conservative in its use of split screen, as it has reservations about "full screen". Palma admitted in the interview that when it came to [Carrie the Witch], he got a little tired of split screen, and after Carrie started attacking, split screen didn't work for the whole scene. So he began to think about how to compare two characters in the same picture in a particular dramatic moment. This is the scene in the classroom where Tom is reading poetry and Carrie sits behind him and whispers "I think it's beautiful." Palma gets a split-screen effect in the depth shot.
The great thing about Parma is that she gives a girl who has just gone through her coming-of-age ceremony a wiggle room. When Carrie came home, she was exhausted. She washed the blood off her body, hugged her mother, and said, "It was too bad. You were right, mother, they all laughed at me. Hug me, mother." - Carrie wanted to go back to her mother, to do it all over again A "guiltless" girl. But the mother has made her own decision. She will first repent, then pray, and then she will perform the duty of eradicating heresy on behalf of God. When Carrie finally decided to rebel against her mother and kill her, seven daggers flew towards her body. Mother is like a martyrdom.
Compared to the countless remakes of [Witch Carrie], this is what Palma is most proud of about her film. "Some people take pictures and they make all the mistakes I tried to avoid back then. There was a three-hour TV version where the mother at home died of a heart attack like in the novel. Laughed at Stephen King. God, I came up with the idea of the dagger nailing my mother to the door." In the
end, you don't know if it was God, the devil, or Carrie who gave the order—the house started to fall, no more Innocent Carrie and her mother, hiding in the cupboard with the statue of Christ, died in the raging fire like all "guilty" women. (
Text_Kaikai ) Originally published in "Watching Movies" January 2017
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