Here's the thing about this movie, I haven't actually seen it in a while, like maybe over a decade and a half now, but I know exactly where it was going. This is when everything is set into place, when Carrie, unknowingly, seals her own fate. Sue, another one of the girls that made fun of Carrie, feels guilty about this and asks her boyfriend, who's popular and, supposedly, handsome, to ask Carrie to the prom as Sue feels she owes it to Carrie. One of the girls, the lead bitch if you will, played by Nancy Allen who was quite lovely in the 70s, decides she's gonna make Carrie pay for what she "did" by pulling an incredibly cruel prank on her at prom. The girls need to complete the detention or else they won't be allowed to go to prom. The rest of the girls mock her for this and they get detention for a week with the PE teacher. Carrie is terrified, as her mother hadn't taught her about this and she feels like she's dying. Carrie gets her first period while she's showering after gym. Perhaps one of the things that I liked about this movie, and I do not know how this compares to the book, is that its story is simple. But, moving on, Carrie is raised, naturally, by a fanatically religious woman and she is bullied at school by the princesses of the school for being 'weird'. But, of course, the bible-thumping crowd will say that parents raise their children how they see fit and how the government should not interfere. This, to me, is a form of child abuse and it should be treated as such. Carrie's mother, of course, believes this to be a sin and something that Carrie brought on herself.
Regardless, that's not as bad as, say, these fanatically religious parents, who emotionally abuse their children into believing that they're sinners and they're going to hell for minor infractions like, as an example, Carrie getting her first period. You are, essentially, indoctrinating that kid to believe what you want and only that. If that is something they wish to explore at an age where you feel it's reasonable for them to do so, then that's fine, but not when they're kids, when they're sponges that absorb every little tidbit of information you give them. I've always been a person who believes that, until children reach the age where they're able to make their own decisions, the kids should not be taught about religion.
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And, considering, that people are more aware regarding these issues, it's a movie that still feels quite relevant even over 40 years after its release. In all seriousness though, this movie, being 42 years old, still probably represents one of the best examples of bullying in films that I have seen in horror. I think that's the major difference, because, realistically, if a friend uses your own perceived flaws against you in order to make you feel bad then, really, they're not actually your friend, in PSA sentiment. Or they pick on kids who are far smaller and are not able to defend themselves, stuffing them into lockers, pushing them on the floor, etc, etc, etc. Where, say, because of whatever differences there may be, a specific group of people, say the jocks and princesses as an example, make fun of the goths in a mean-spirited manner. I don't feel like it's bullying when compared to, say, in the States, where it's sort of an epidemic in schools. But, in my opinion, true friendship understands that there's boundaries you don't cross. Friends poke fun at each other, that's part of friendship. I think I'd call that more good-natured roasting. Because, really, I don't wanna call that bullying. And, really, there's a kernel of truth in what he said. I was watching a video on YouTube the other day and this guy was mentioning about how bullying starts with your friends when you were kids. Regardless, before we get to that, I think I should talk about bullying a little bit, at least my own experience with it. Carrie, of course, was also Stephen King's first published novel, this movie came out a few years after that and, really, they hit the ground running with this movie. Now what do I do for an intro? In all seriousness, however, this is the first film adaptation based on a King book. Wait, what's that? You mean to tell me that I've already done this same exact intro, word for word, already? Well.this is awkward. So, of course, no real annual horror fest would be complete without some sort of offering from the master of horror himself, Stephen King.
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