I want to go to the UK to watch movies, and I have to watch things that will not be released in China. Besides, Carrie is my favorite. I always think Stephen King’s best works are carrie and different seasons. Shawshank’s salvation and Nazi sages can be used as textbooks for writing, and the body is the mother text of many of his novels. As a prolific and best-selling novelist, it’s normal for bad works to be half-divided with good ones. A few years ago, he published a dream catcher, which repeated a lot of his masterpieces, the childhood shadows of a few little boys, Supernatural powers, aliens, end of the world, and so on.
Carrie is not Stephen’s debut, he has been scribbling and sending manuscripts to magazines since he was very young. To be precise, carrie can only be the first step to mark his official debut as a mature writer. At the time of writing this book, his life was at the bottom of his life. He was poor and could not find hope. He worked more than ten hours a day, cut off his credit card to prevent himself from spending money, and lived in an RV. He is eager to be famous, eager to make a blockbuster, eager to make money to support his family. So I don’t think he even realized what he would write in such a predicament. Carrie was later praised by many people, and continued to interpret more in-depth meanings. But I think Stephen’s original intention was to write a supermarket novel with a theme that is easy to please the public, and most people feel that they are interested in reading it. Although I think the deep meaning analysis is not wrong. Then, subconsciously write something that can be analyzed over and over again by others. In this case, I can only attribute it to the talent of the writer.
Carrie is an ordinary American high school girl. In her final year, she is about to face a prom that may be as important as a wedding for American girls. She is the bottom end of the high school jungle, the link destined to be eliminated in the biological chain. She is ugly, shy, out of gregarious, and has a religious mother who makes a living as a tailor. I am not a person who has witnessed how terrible high school life abroad is. I just remember that there was a Canadian foreign teacher in high school who was lazy in class and showed us the Hollywood youth film mean girl played by Lindsay Lohan. After watching it, he asked us if we thought the movie was real? We in uniforms naturally said that the movie was exaggerated. But the foreign teacher said with a serious face, at least he felt that the levels and bully in the movie were real.
But let’s not forget that this is Stephen King’s novel, so he sets our heroine as a supernatural person with a strong mind. This power awakened with the arrival of the heroine's menarche.
Menarche means that a girl becomes a woman and is officially fertile. In many human cultures, this is a very obscure and very important life process. The most shocking scene in the whole story happened when Carrie was taking a bath in a public bathroom, and suddenly found her body bleeding inexplicably; because no woman had ever told her anything about menstruation, she was very panicked, thinking that she was bleeding like this. It means she is going to die soon. Carrie screamed and asked the other girls in the bathroom for help, but did not expect that the other girls just laughed at her for her helplessness, threw a tampon on her, yelled, plug it up!
Stephen King mentioned that since he is not a female after all, many of the psychological details about high school girls were completed with the help of his wife. I don’t know if this idea, which was laughed at and isolated by other girls, was assisted. Anyway, this detail is indeed very cruel and true. I certainly don’t mean that all women in the world throw slivers at others like a carnival, but the reason Carrie was ridiculed was that she was already in high school (please note that the story happened in the United States, and it’s almost unrealistic for a high school student to have a menstrual period. ), have not yet mastered the "secrets" that the girls already knew. When she was bleeding, her panic and her ignorance were ridiculous to other girls who thought they were "mature women". When she was bleeding, she was only seen as an existence without the ability to control herself, no different from an unknowing outsider (or man), she was simply not a woman, so the first thing to abandon her was her own gender group. I’ve heard many boys wonder why girls in school always invite each other to go to the bathroom. Pay attention to the boys. The object of this invitation is very particular, and the symbolic meaning has increased...
Besides, in theory, , Sharing everything about women’s secrets has been passed down between mothers and daughters since ancient times. But Carrie's mother is a religious fanatic and very paranoid. She stubbornly believes that sexual intercourse is a very evil thing. After getting married, she could not withstand the temptation of her husband and had sex. She broke down completely and felt that she was unclean. After her husband ran away from home, she felt that she could serve God wholeheartedly to cleanse her sins, but unexpectedly found that she was pregnant. I think she has never eaten pork and seen pigs run, but she didn’t want to admit that she was pregnant, so she kept saying that God gave herself cancer as punishment for eating the forbidden fruit, and a tumor bulged in her belly until she finally gave birth at home. Until my daughter. In the new version of the movie, after she gave birth to a daughter, she wanted to cut the neck of the wicked child with a pair of scissors, but she saw the newborn’s eyes open, which was no match for motherhood, and finally she didn’t start.
Not to mention how the plot is set up, it can only be said that the director still understands the extremely contradictory mentality of Carrie's mother. On the one hand, she rejects everything that is a symbol of a woman, and rejects all the privileges that women can have; she hates motherhood, hates motherhood, hates childbirth, and after giving birth to a daughter, she hates daughters, and is unwilling to tell her all about women. , For fear that she will mature and grow up one day, and be furious that she will show up her pair of dirty pillows to the dance like a prostitute. On the one hand, when she got married, she actually loved her husband and enjoyed sex. After being abandoned, she felt angry and raised her own daughter. It is strange that people are not crazy in such a contradiction. So even if Carrie’s power awakening doesn’t happen later and she wants to get out of her mother’s control, I guess she will still lose her mind and kill her daughter who wants to be independent.
There are very interesting details in the movie. Carrie, who was rescued by the female physical education teacher, sat in the principal’s office and waited for his mother to pick him up. The male headmaster couldn’t say the word period twice; the physical education teacher’s shorts had a printed on it. Carrie's blood handprint, she walked around with this blood handprint unconsciously, the male principal looked like he could not see this thing again or he would faint. And the instigator of all this, the carrie who can't handle women's secrets correctly, is naturally the dirtiest of all.
Carrie looked forward to receiving relief from her mother, but she didn't expect her mother to just abuse her more severely, because she was no longer a little girl after menstruation, she was an unclean thing. The desperate carrie gradually found that his mind was getting stronger and stronger. I now know why the new version of the movie will be ridiculous, because it describes the process of Carrie discovering his inner potential as a typical Hollywood super girl hero growth History, as the main theme, shows that she went to the library to check materials, watched special function videos on youtube, secretly trained herself, and perfected her skills; I still like the old version of the way. Although Carrie knows her own power, she is very concerned about this power. It's not clear how strong it is. In fact, Carrie has always been ignorant, what she wants to do most is just follow the crowd, just like other girls. Rather than mastering superpowers, she hopes that her mother can be normal, and then under the eyes of her mother's appreciation, she can go to the graduation ceremony ball.
At the time, the two girls who took the lead in bullying Carrie, one insisted not to admit their mistakes and were punished not to participate in the prom; the other not only bowed her head to admit her mistake, but also recognized thoroughly, asking her boyfriend to invite Carrie to the prom, and gave up attending. Stephen King mentioned that he doesn't think that the one who bowed his head and admitted his mistake really let his boyfriend out of good intentions. I agree with the explanation of the new version of the movie. In the movie, the dark-haired girl who did not admit her mistakes went to confront the blonde woman who admitted her mistakes, and asked her why she didn't agree with her united front that they did not bully Carrie, so the school had no choice but to let them all participate. The blonde said that her confirmation is that bully is wrong for others. The black hair can tell you that you admit your mistakes just to keep the ball tickets. You don't want others to think you are a bad girl, that's all. The provoked blond woman was determined not to let the black-haired woman look down on her, so she went to her boyfriend to talk about the atonement. This psychological trend is quite subtle and very realistic for adolescent girls; in short, regardless of the specific reason, the blond boyfriend of Prince Charming took the initiative to invite Carrie to be his female companion.
The carrie of the new version of the movie is too beautiful, it's not so beautiful; it's still good from the old version, thin, pale, and even a bit blind. Carrie looked forward to the ball with all his heart, and made a dress for herself. At this time, her abilities were quite mature, almost overwhelming her mother's head. In the new version, Carrie cuts clothes while humming a song in front of her mother. Her mother secretly prayed to God for forgiveness for this impious little hoof in the corner. As a result, when her daughter’s eyes swept over, the mother immediately dared not dare. Made a sound. Similarly, although this treatment in the movie seems very enjoyable, it is too harsh. Carrie in the original book has not been so out of her mother's control from beginning to end. If she could, then her last tragedy would not happen. This poor girl, controlled by her own mother's long-term high pressure, would not be able to quickly awaken in a few weeks, even if she had the superpower that could destroy half of the city.
On the day of the prom, the newly dressed carrie was designed by the black-haired woman and her companions and became the prom queen of that day. When he came to the stage to receive the crown scepter, he was directly topped with a bucket of pig blood. So Carrie finally understood that no matter how beautiful he was dressed, he was nothing more than a bloody monster in the eyes of everyone. Her superpowers erupted uncontrollably, so she became a murderer who was repressed and slaughtered the entire stadium and burned half of the city by the way. In the new version of the movie, the physical education teacher who helped Carrie begged her to stop. Although she did not dissuade her from succeeding, Carrie, who had become the witch mode, let her go; but I remember that in the old version, she directly killed the begging without hesitation. The female teacher of; Maybe it’s the better one in the old version. At this time, Carrie is irrational and will not believe that anyone has any kindness to her. To her, everyone was a murderer at this time, and they were the initiators of her humiliation tonight, and everyone was just as abhorrent. She didn't have time to care about who was good or bad, as long as she was buried in blood for her humiliation.
Carrie, who was glamorous, returned home and wanted to get comfort from her mother. At this time, she finally believed in her mother's curse and felt that the outside world was evil and full of malice. She should not participate in the dance, nor should she abandon her mother and her God. Just when she thought her mother would forgive her, she was stabbed by her biological mother on the back. Poor, carrie, who had never accepted her own female identity in her entire life, was considered filthy by her creator and soaked in blood from the inside out, so she committed Cain's fault and killed her own blood relatives.
In the new version of the movie, she used her own power to provoke a rain of stones, smashing herself and her mother into nothingness. She sentenced herself to stone. Finally, the blond woman went to worship Carrie's tombstone and saw that it was sprayed with red paint, carrie, go to hell.
Stoning is a very old criminal law, and it is still heard from time to time. Generally, this criminal law is mostly used for men and women who commit adultery, especially women. In other words, Carrie felt unclean until he died. The classic English gambling spell, always like to add bloody to the sentence. There is also the sentence bloody hell, bloody hell, bloody bleak world.
In Stephen King's autobiography, Carrie's source of inspiration is also mentioned. He said that when he was young, he had a pair of brothers and sisters who had no friends in his class. One year after Christmas, the sister who never dressed up and wore shabby clothes wore new sweaters, new skirts, and permed her hair to go to school. Her excitement was beyond words, because she thought that if she was dressed up, she could be accepted by others.
The fact is that the rest of the class continued to laugh at the poor girl, this time at her inefficiency. But she doesn't have the power of Carrie, so that everyone who hurts herself will be destroyed by the fire. Stephen King's to the effect is that people have this ability, will keenly sniff out the unlucky person who does not belong to their own group, cruelly eliminate all her/his power to climb upwards, and resolutely beat them back to their original form. When we are young, we can do things that are not on the stage without concealing it. What is even more frightening is that this mentality will not disappear when we grow up.
At the end of the story, Carrie ignited a huge fire. In many religions, fire means destruction and purification. It's just that this poor girl didn't understand until she died, she had never been dirty, and she didn't need this kind of painful purification. Finally, Carrie’s last name is white. We translate it into white as "White", and the snow fell on a vast expanse of white, a really clean white.
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