Devil in a Pink Dress (Carrie [2013])

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a nocturnal emission. Your body is going through

some changes. But also, let's talk about that

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Now, this week's hint was a little bit different.

I went with a visual clue and it was a stack

of pads accompanied by some tampons and I guess

this clue was a little bit too easy because my

shout out list is the longest it's ever been.

Only one person got the 1408 clue so I guess

I overcompensated a little bit this time because

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there's just too many. I'll be reading shit off

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first. Okay. Don't be rude. But shout out to

these podcasts and YouTube channels whose hosts

slash creators correctly connected the menstrual

dots to Carrie. So we got you Goodka, Skipper

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Mondays, Horror Flick Chicks, The Bitter Wolf,

and the podcast about nothing. Now, if you're

a regular listener, some of these names will

sound familiar to you as I have collaborated

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correctly in the past so yeah check them out

and there were two other people one of whom guessed

correctly that the film was carrie but didn't

want to shout out so to that person if you're

listening congrats and i respect your anonymity

and for the second person they also guessed carrie

but then gaslit themselves into thinking it couldn't

possibly be that easy of a clue So they subsequently

switched their guest to The Shining. Congratulations,

you played yourself. And some folks may call

that karma. Karma for sitting your pee pants

on your nephew's midsection. But I digress. Let's

get to the reason. Let's get to the reason you're

really here. And let's dissect Carrie. But quick

side note, if this is your first time listening

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wondering to yourself, why the fuck did you click

on this episode and decide to listen to this

bullshit? This R. Kelly motherfucker out here

talking about peeing on people. And that would

be a totally valid and understandable line of

thought. All I can say in my defense is that

I just respond to the situations that I am presented

with. So take from that what you will. But OK,

so the film Carrie was adapted from Stephen King's

1974 debut novel of the same name, and it is

a remake of the 1976 classic. King wrote Carrie

originally intending to submit it as a short

story for the men's magazine Cavalier, but he

gave up on it due to a feeling that it would

never be successful. However, his wife Tabitha

fished the first three pages of the story from

the trash and told him to keep at it. And of

course, the rest is now history. The film was

directed by Kimberly Pierce, who is best known

for directing 1999's Boys Don't Cry, which saw

Hilary Swank win an Oscar for Best Actress. The

screenplay was written by Roberto Aguirre -Sacasa,

whose horror credits include 2014's The Town

That Dreaded Sundown, and Lawrence D. Cohen,

who also wrote the screenplays for a few other

adaptations of Stephen King's works, including

the original Carrie in 1976, 1990s It miniseries

as well as 1993s The Tommyknockers miniseries.

Carrie stars Chloe Grace Moretz in the titular

role, Julianne Moore as her mother Margaret White,

Judy Greer as Miss Desjardins, Gabriella Wilde

as Sue Snell, Portia Doubleday as Chris Hargensen,

and Ansel Elgort as Tommy Ross. Carrie grossed

about $85 million worldwide against a budget

of $30 million. And the film holds an average

rating of 2 .6 on Letterboxd. I rated it a 2

myself because some of the effects didn't age

the best and I thought there were some really

cringy moments when it came to the acting. The

film opens with an exterior shot of a quaint

little home in the suburbs but there is a woman

who is screaming in what appears to be intense

agony. And as we move through the house, we see

crucifixes on the walls. There's an open Bible

laying face down on the stairs and there's like

water or pools of some kind of liquid and also

blood. And eventually we see this woman and she's

in bed praying and screaming until suddenly she

falls eerily silent and just kind of like stares

up at the ceiling. And then she hikes up her

nightgown and reveals that she has just given

birth to a baby. And her first words are, it's

a test. Cut it down. Yikes. So she grabs a pair

of big ass scissors from her nightstand. And

honestly, I can't think of any reason anyone

would have to keep a giant pair of scissors next

to their bed. Um, but I guess, you know, better

to be prepared. You know, one day you may need

to stab your newborn, I guess. So she is about

to do just that. But stops at the last second

as the baby makes eye contact with her. Which

is crazy because newborns can't really see anything

beyond like a foot in front of them. And they're

also like hella sensitive to light. But yay for

maternal love, I guess. And like I know that

in movies, depictions of births, they don't actually

use newborns. ever if at all you know the babies

are like six months old or some shit and that's

fine but they at least usually try to add a little

bit more realism to the situation like this baby

here didn't even have an umbilical cord so it

just came out as a full -on six month old and

they rolled with it very interesting But of course,

this scene is the birth of Carrie and the woman

who is giving birth is her mother, Margaret.

And even though the scene is relatively short,

in that amount of time, it does a good job of

establishing the fact that Margaret is batshit

crazy. She is a religious fanatic who is apparently

a -okay with the idea of committing infanticide.

But that little baby does manage to grow up.

And next we see her. She is in PE class at school

as like a junior or senior in high school. And

her class is playing pool volleyball. And Carrie

seems very shy. She's lacking confidence in herself.

And she's kind of standing in the corner of the

pool awkwardly as fuck. And as the other students

play. The ball ends up landing near Carrie, which

leads the coach, Coach Desjardins, or Miss Desjardins,

to tell her to get into the game and that she

can't stand on the sidelines forever, which sounds

like a double entendre to me. Carrie cannot stand

on the sidelines of this game, nor the sidelines

of life. Wow, Miss Desjardins out here just dropping

bars on cat's heads, bro. Why are you a PE teacher

then? You need to be like a guidance counselor

or some shit. But anyway, Carrie picks up the

ball and immediately serves it into the back

of popular girl Sue's head. And her fellow popular

girl BFF Chris starts cracking up, leading all

the other girls to begin laughing too. So this

scene establishes Chris and Sue as the queen

bees of the school. And after they're done with

P .E., they all head to the locker room and shower.

But Carrie waits until everyone else is finished

before hopping in there herself. And as she is

washing up, she notices that her hand is bloody

and begins to freak out. She runs to the other

girls in the locker room screaming for help because

she legitimately believes that she is bleeding

to death and is in danger. And she grabs on to

Sue who's like, what the fuck? Get away, you

weirdo. And like leaves a bloody handprint on

her white shirt. And so Kristen points that out

and is like, yo, that's period blood. And she

tosses a tampon at Carrie telling her to plug

it up. Then the other girls join in. So now it's

raining tampons and pads on Carrie while this

plug it up chant rings out. And she is lying

on the shower floor, which is disgusting. I can't

imagine lying down in a pool of like toe jams,

fucking pubes and apparently period blood. Carrie

is absolutely in shambles because she has no

idea what the fuck is going on and Chris has

her cell phone now and she's recording all of

this while Sue looks on not participating anymore

but now she has this look on her face that shows

that she feels badly feels guilty but most importantly

she does nothing to stop the other girls from

being assholes. Eventually, Miss Desjardins shows

up to defuse the situation, but she seems kind

of annoyed. She is thinking that Carrie is being

like hella extra. And Sue comes up to tell her

that she doesn't think Carrie knows what a period

is. And Miss Desjardins is just like, hey, you

know, shut up. You're not really helping. Back

away. And Carrie starts getting more and more

wound up and the pads and the ponds around her

start to move a little bit. And the overhead

light kind of flickers. And Miss Desjardins slaps

Carrie to get her to stop freaking out. Like,

what the fuck? Like, how is that your reaction?

Like, this girl legitimately thinks that she's

dying. And the way to get her to calm down is

to slap her? But hey, you can't argue with results

because Carrie immediately quiets down. So Miss

Desjardins takes her to the principal's office.

Principal Morton. And she apologizes for slapping

Carrie and says she should have handled the situation

better. Yeah, no shit. But Principal Morton is

one of those guys who doesn't like to talk about

yucky feminine things like periods. Ew, gross.

So he offers Carrie some juice. Some juice as

a period remedy. and wants to know who started

throwing the uh things because he can't say tampons

and pads because menstrual products are so gross

and yucky morton says they'll need to contact

carrie's mom referencing the contentious relationship

they've had in the past because apparently the

state had to force her to stop homeschooling

carrie And Carrie starts stressing at the thought

of her mother getting involved. Because remember,

she is batshit crazy. And then as she's freaking

out, the water cooler next to her ruptures. And

maybe that's underselling it because it kind

of explodes. And if I were in that room, personally,

I don't think I would have reacted as calmly,

relatively speaking, as Morton and Miss Desjardins

did. Like, if I'm seeing something that spontaneously

combusts next to me, I'm going to have a few

questions. But they're just like, all right,

well, Carrie, go on home with your mom. Bye.

So Margaret comes and picks Carrie up and they're

driving home. And on that drive, Carrie is asking

questions like, hey, why did you never tell me

what a period is? Despite the fact that I'm a

senior in high school. and her mom is like well

we'll just talk about it inside and she heads

into the house but carrie stays in the car and

some neighbor kid pulls up on his bike and starts

like knocking on the window and he's teasing

slash bullying her calling her crazy carrie crazy

carrie crazy carrie and she looks at him and

kind of flicks her head and this little dude

flies off his bike and bro is freaked out probably

soiled his pants and he pedals off fast as hell

carrie then heads into the house and finds her

mom banking her head against the wall begging

jesus to help her lost child this is crazy margaret

says that periods stem from the curse god put

upon eve after she smashed adam so carrie must

have had impure thoughts when she showered with

the other girls at school this is the only logical

explanation for getting a period she wanted to

go muff diving apparently so carrie's like nah

bro everyone has to shower at school as part

of the rules blah blah blah And Margaret goes

on and on about sinning. And Carrie is like,

nah, you're the one who sinned because you didn't

tell me about basic female biology. And as a

result, everyone laughed and threw shit at me.

Margaret then tells Carrie to get her ass inside

of that creepy little prayer closet they have

underneath the stairs. And after smacking her

in the head with the Bible, she bolts the door

shut. And Carrie is like pounding on the door,

yelling to be let out. And then suddenly a crack

appears in the door. And it's at this point that

Carrie accepts that she has some kind of power.

She is telekinetic. She can move things with

her mind. So right now, things appear to be tied

to her emotions. Because the only times we've

seen her exhibit these powers are when she was

in the shower freaking out with the blood. She

was moving the pads and shit on the ground. And

then the thought of her mother coming to school

and finding out about the period made her rupture

the water cooler. And now being locked in this

creepy ass prayer closet, she was able to crack

the door with some telekinetic bolt. But the

real question here is, did anyone actually ever...

tell or show Carrie how to use a tampon or pad.

I guess the audience is supposed to assume that

Miss Desjardins did, but I don't know. She's

going around here slapping children, so I'm not

sure I trust her to follow through with actually

addressing the root cause of the issue. But while

Carrie is busy banging on the prayer closet door,

Sue and Tommy are busy banging in the back of

his Jeep. And apparently Tommy is not laying

that wood the way he needs to be laying it because

Sue is just staring off into space, clearly distracted

about the day's events. And she apparently really

does feel badly about what happened earlier and

regrets participating in the tampon tossing.

So Tommy suggests that she apologize to Carrie

in order to clear her conscience. And she kind

of brushes him off but seems like maybe she's

considering it. Chris then uploads the video

of the incident to YouTube like a total dickhead.

And crack some jokes about Carrie's favorite

movie being Bloodsport and her favorite drink

being a Bloody Mary. What a fucking dick. That's

kind of funny though. But now we're starting

to see this divide form between Chris and Sue.

Chris is leaning into this whole mean girl shit

while Sue is like, hey, maybe it's time to grow

up a little bit and stop being an asshole. The

following day, Miss Desjardins gives Carrie the

rest of the week off from PE and she gives the

rest of the class detention and has them all

outside at the track. She's talking about how

excited they must be for graduation and for prom

coming up so soon. But she says that what they

did to Carrie yesterday was super shitty. And

Chris says that this whole lecture is some old

bullshit. So Miss Desjardins says bet. Now everyone

needs to start running and if anyone refuses

to participate or stops running, they'll be suspended

which also means they'll be unable to attend

prom. Coach tells them that while they're running

to think long and hard about what it would be

like to be Carrie in that situation and it looks

like the remorse and the regret is really starting

to weigh on Sue. Chris participates for a little

while but eventually she gets tired and she gets

an attitude and she's like fuck you coach I'm

not doing this shit anymore and Miss Desjardins

suspends her and Chris tries to rally everyone

to protest with her but nobody goes for it not

even her BFF Sue and she just stands there looking

pretty awkward with that egg on her face that's

what you get you fucking asshole. And as Carrie

makes her return to school, she's walking through

the halls and everyone is whispering and laughing

at her. And someone even painted Carrie White

eats shit on the lockers, which honestly just

seems like really poorly executed bullying. Like,

I don't condone bullying, but if you are going

to do something, then you should do it well.

And saying Carrie White eats shit is just boring.

lazy and has no relation to the context of what

you're bullying her about if the issue was that

she was bleeding on herself then why would you

not incorporate that into your insults something

like carrie white is a mosquito hoe or carrie

white sucks ticks dicks or if you want to keep

it simple call her carrie red call her bloody

carrie anything besides carrie white eat shit

that is just lazy and you don't deserve to be

a bully if you're not going to fully commit but

again again i do not condone bullying no one

should commit to bullying but but don't half

-ass it if you do participate but this ridicule

causes carrie to retreat into the bathroom to

collect herself and she ends up breaking a mirror

with her powers and some of the shards fell into

the sink So Carrie demonstrates some control.

She like levitates them a little bit before somebody

comes in and she has to, you know, exit. And

from there, she heads to the library to do some

research on telekinesis. She checks out a bunch

of books, read some articles online, etc. Later,

she's in English class and the teacher calls

her up to the front of the room to read a poem

for everyone. And she reads some dark shit. But

the teacher is a douchebag who makes some douchebag

comments saying, wow, that's dark and weird and

you're making everyone uncomfortable. And Tommy,

who's also in the class, calls him an asshole.

And the teacher's like, what'd you say? And Tommy's

like, what I said was what Carrie read was awesome.

And Sue is also in this class and she looks like

she's feeling some kind of way about Carrie getting

attention from her man. Not only is the relationship

between Sue and Carrie tense, but it's also tense

between their mothers. Margaret is a tailor and

or seamstress. And as she's working at the shop,

Sue's mom pulls up to pick up Sue's prom dress.

And in the process, she gives this awkward apology

to Margaret about the whole period fiasco and

says there's no excuse for what Sue did, but

also adds that Sue is a good girl. And Margaret

asks, are any of those girls good? Which Sue's

mom has like an uncomfortable, awkward look on

her face. And it's like, okay, time for me to

get out of here. But Sue's mom compliments the

work that Margaret's done. She has like sewn

some new neckline or some shit on this dress.

And while Sue was giving her these compliments,

Margaret reaches subtly underneath her skirt

or dress and begins to cut herself. And she did

something similar when she was locking Carrie

in the prayer closet. She was like taking her

fingernails and like digging into her arms. It

seems like Margaret's mind automatically associates

any stressful situation involving Carrie with

pain. And if the pain isn't there naturally,

then she has to manufacture it. The only natural

pain was the childbirth. Since then, everything

has been manufactured. Whether that's banging

her head against the wall, digging into her arm

with her nails, or cutting her leg with this

seamstress tool or knife, whatever it was. Margaret

does not look at Carrie like a human being. She

looks at her as if she's something she has to

atone for. She is the living embodiment of what

she considers to be her sin. Chris brings her

attorney dad up to the school to meet with Principal

Morton and Miss Desjardins, and he tries swinging

his lawyer dick around to get Chris's prom privileges

restored, says that everything has been based

on hearsay, and lacks any sort of evidence. Miss

Desjardins says, OK, bet I'll apologize and lift

the suspension if there is no evidence like you

say. So let's take a look at Chris's phone and

see that there's no video of the incident on

there. And her dad just looks at Chris like,

hey, show your phone. And Chris looks back at

him like, no, I'm not going to do that. And then

she folds and just runs out like a straight pussy.

With her suspension now upheld. Chris needs to

punch down on somebody. So she runs to the gym

where Sue and the rest of their clique are setting

up decorations for prom. And she confronts Sue

for not standing by her. And Sue was like, hey,

we kind of deserved it, bro. Carrie did absolutely

nothing to us. But Chris calls out this hypocrisy.

She says that Sue does not give a fuck about

Carrie. What she really cares about is having

the perfect prom night that she's been dreaming

of for so long. And if we're keeping it a buck,

Chris was not wrong in the slightest. Later on,

Carrie's back at home and she's in her room practicing

her telekinesis. And the faces she's making were

absolutely ridiculous. Like, I couldn't tell.

If she was trying not to sneeze or like quietly

creaming her panties, maybe a mix of both. But

she makes a bunch of books and her bed levitate.

She also makes the lights in the house start

to flicker, which draws Margaret's attention

from downstairs. So Margaret grabs a knife and

heads up to investigate. But Carrie puts everything

down and pretends to be asleep right before her

mom enters. So Margaret tucks her in and sweetly

whispers that she won't let anyone hurt Carrie.

And I guess she is excluding herself from this

anyone because, like I said, she was carrying

a big ass knife. The next day, the worst decision

in this entire film takes place when Sue shows

up to Tommy's lacrosse practice with the bright

idea. That he should be the one to take Carrie

to prom instead of her. Because this will be

her way of atoning for what she did. And dog,

this has absolutely nothing to do with Carrie

whatsoever. Sue is only thinking about herself.

She only wants to ease her own conscience. Only

wants to ease her own guilt. And she is a narcissist.

Not only that, she is the worst kind of narcissist

because she has somehow managed to turn herself

into the victim. And most notably, she still

hasn't even apologized to Carrie, which was the

first suggestion that Tommy said. A very simple,

I'm sorry, could have prevented everything that

is to come. But the second worst decision that

takes place is that Tommy agrees to this bullshit

ass idea. And so he pulls up to Carrie sitting

alone in the cafeteria and strikes up a conversation.

He sees that she's reading a book about telekinesis

and he asks, is that like hypnosis? And mentions

that he hypnotized his friend's dog once. Bro,

okay, so Tommy clearly is not the sharpest crayon

in the box. He ends up asking Carrie to prom

and she understandably thinks that he's trolling

her. So she runs off and he chases her down in

the hallway to say that he's sincerely asking

her. And she's like bro aren't you with Sue though?

And he's like yeah but Sue doesn't want to go.

So hey Carrie do you want to be my backup prom

date? This dude is a true romantic. But Carrie

still isn't convinced, so she retreats to the

girls' locker room and is sitting on a bench

in there crying when Miss Desjardins comes in

to check on her. And Carrie explains what happened

and that she knows who Tommy hangs with, so they're

probably just planning to trick her. But Miss

Desjardins gasses her up like, nah, you're pretty,

so of course he meant it. that's just reckless

behavior as the adult in the room like we gotta

keep it real here bro like i understand not wanting

to like crush carrie's spirit or whatever but

she's already feeling that this isn't like a

legitimate invitation so confirming that i don't

think is the wrong thing to do you're instead

giving her hope knowing that things are probably

going to go awry But instead of being honest

with Carrie, Miss Desjardins instead goes into

the hallway to confront Sue and Tommy saying

they need to stop fucking with Carrie. And they're

like, hey, we're not. But also, this is none

of your business. And Tommy says famous athletes

like Tim Tebow take kids to prom all the time

and get love for it. So why not me? And Miss

Desjardins is like, are you fucking serious,

bro? You play high school lacrosse. Like, shut

the fuck up. But she asked Tommy that if he shows

up to prom with Carrie on his arm, doesn't he

think he'll look the tiniest bit ridiculous?

That's rude as fuck. She really is not much better

than any of these other assholes. But Tommy shows

up to Carrie's house to apply pressure and eventually

she folds. She agrees to go to prom with him.

Now she's all excited and hopeful and she goes

dress shopping. But while she's out there, she

ends up buying claw to make the dress herself.

And she doesn't notice that Chris is lurking

and watching everything that she's doing. But

because she was out shopping for prom materials,

Carrie ends up coming home late and Margaret's

all worried slash upset. And she's like, where

were you? Blah, blah, blah. And Carrie is like,

hey, sorry, I'm late, but I was out because a

boy asked me to prom. And Margaret's like, fuck

all that. Like, he's just going to hurt you.

Boys always come sniffing around after the blood

comes. Ew. And this confrontation escalates as

Margaret tries to get Carrie to go back to the

creepy prayer closet. But she's like, nah, not

today, bitch. And she flexes her powers and makes

all the living room furniture levitate for a

bit. And Margaret drops to her knees, praying

as Carrie tells her to stand. But she won't.

So Carrie uses her powers to make her levitate,

too. And Margaret calls her a witch who's in

the devil's grasp. But Carrie's like, nah, this

shit is hereditary. Pretty sure I got it from

grandma and it just skipped you. Damn, son, shots

fired. Can't nobody tell Carrie shit right now.

She is really feeling herself. She finally got

her first period. So she's feeling like a woman.

She's going to prom with the most popular boy

in school and she got these badass telekinetic

powers that make her feel like she can do anything.

But of course, first comes the rise and then

comes the fall. So Chris, her boyfriend Billy,

and his degenerate friends pull up to a farm

in the dead of night with a sledgehammer and

a bucket. They find a pen of pigs and they single

one out and kill it. Chris then takes a knife

and slits the pig's throat to drain its blood

into the bucket. Then they break into the school

and rig this bucket of pig's blood above the

prom kink and queen stage in the gym. But of

course you can't have a movie. with the prom

and not have a getting ready for prom montage

so all the kids are getting dressed and they're

dancing having fun carrie is making her own dress

and looks all happy and she puts it on gets all

dolled up when margaret comes into her room And

she's complaining about everything. She says

the dress is too revealing, that Carrie's quote

unquote dirty pillows are exposed. And Carrie's

like, Mom, these are called breasts. Every woman

has them, even you. And Margaret's like, nah,

look, Tommy has bad intentions. He's not even

going to show up and everyone's going to laugh

at you. And as crazy as Margaret is, I mean,

she got one of those right. But Tommy does indeed

show up. In fact, he shows up in style. He shows

up in this white stretched limo and Margaret

tries to stop Carrie from leaving. But Carrie

uses her powers to force her mom's mouth shut

and sends her flying into the prayer closet that

she then locks. She even apparently has like

some pyrokinesis abilities because she melts

the lock a little bit with her mind. And so now

Margaret cannot escape. And this may be the biggest

unnecessary flex in the entire film because as

Margaret bangs on the closet door, Carrie turns

on the radio so that Tommy can't hear all that

ruckus as he walks up to the front door. But

Carrie is standing like two feet away from the

radio and she uses her powers to turn it on.

Like she literally could just reach out. Wouldn't

even need to take a step and turn it on. But

no, she just has to show out. And also the stretch

limo for two people is probably the second most

unnecessary flex in this movie. Carrie and Tommy

pull up to prom and they meet up with his best

friend George and George's girlfriend Erica.

And these are notably the first people in the

film who both aren't mean to Carrie. But also

they don't look at her with this overwhelming

look of pity. They just treat her like a regular

teenage girl. But as everyone is dancing and

having the time of their teenage lives. Chris

and Billy sneak into prom and they climb up to

where they rigged the bucket as everyone votes

for prom king and queen. Chris shoots a text

to Sue who's sitting at home saying that Carrie

looks good, but she won't for long. Real menacing,

real ominous. So Sue jumps up, runs to her car

and drives over to school. Turns out that Chris

has rigged the ballot box so that Tommy and Carrie.

end up winning the vote by a single vote and

carrie's fucking geeked bro but before we get

into the shit show that's about to ensue i just

remembered a story from my own youth so i was

younger than carrie i was in the sixth grade

right and the most popular girl in our grade

asked me out one day randomly and i'm telling

you bro like this girl was a certified baddie

i didn't even know what a baddie was at this

point but i knew she was that okay and so for

her to ask me out randomly i just knew something

here wasn't adding up because to add further

context i transferred schools between fifth and

sixth grade so i knew absolutely nobody here

i had no friends i was uprooted from everything

that was familiar to me as a person who was already

introverted to begin with so starting over from

scratch was very difficult and i was not adjusting

well so for this girl to then ask me out i was

like what that's what i literally said i was

like what she was like hey will you go out with

me i was like huh she's like will you go out

with me And I just like panicked, bro. I froze.

I didn't say a word. We were sitting in class.

We had reading class together and she sat at

my table. It was like her and two of her friends

right there. So I just they're all three of them

are like looking at me as I'm just like panicking

and just going through this inner turmoil, bro.

And literally my body broke down. I missed like

the next two to three days of school because

I was physically ill. It was so stressful for

me. And she and I never spoke to each other again

after that. But all that to say, I can truly

understand Carrie's initial reticence when it

came to Tommy asking her to prom. I just wish

that her body would have also broken down and

she would have gotten physically ill. Because

then, you know, all of the carnage could have

been prevented. But she apparently is made of

stronger stuff than I was. So the show must go

on. So as Tommy and Carrie make their way to

the stage, Chris and Billy are lying in wait

above the stage. And Chris has her hands on the

rope, ready to pull the bucket and drop this

pig's blood all over Carrie. But she starts to

get cold feet. however bad boy billy's like nah

son we've come too far now we are doing this

shit which i mean i kind of get you know again

i don't i don't condone this abhorrent behavior

but if you are going to go through all of this

shit like literally crushing a pig skull with

a sledgehammer slitting its throat and draining

its blood into a bucket, then breaking into school,

climbing up all this like stage shit to rig it

up in the ceiling. I think at that point you

have to commit, bro. Yeah, you got to finish

the job. You really do. Sue shows up right as

Carrie and Tommy are on stage and she spots Chris

up in the ceiling and sees the bucket. But before

she can really issue a warning, Miss Desjardins

intercepts her, thinking that Sue is feeling

salty or jealous about the fact that Tommy and

Carrie won and Carrie's up there and not her.

And so she pushes her out of the gym and locks

the door. Chris then finds her resolve and pulls

the bucket, which sends the pig's blood tumbling

on Carrie and drenches her. And at the same time,

someone also plays the tampon slash pad shower

video on the big screen. And the crowd starts

laughing. So Carrie is standing there totally

humiliated. And as Chris and Billy make their

escape, they fail to properly secure the rope.

So the bucket falls, hitting Tommy in the head

and killing him. Yikes. Carrie turns around,

sees Tommy laying on the ground dead and begins

sobbing like heavy sobs, really heavy sobs for

someone that she hadn't known until like 48 hours

ago or at least hadn't spoken to really until

48 hours ago. But whatever. Sure, we all grieve

differently, but she loses her shit and starts

telekinetically wrecking. everybody first she

uses her powers to lock the door and then she

goes ham so some folks get thrown face first

into those doors some folks get crushed in between

the bleachers other folks get trampled because

carrie like held them down she threw a table

at a dude's face who was just trying to film

for content she brings electrical wires down

from the ceiling and sparks a fire she grabs

one of those wires and starts whipping a chick

with it bro like whips the fuck out of her whips

her so much that she throws her into some flaming

decorations which then catches her dress and

lights her ass up and then carrie had also caused

the sprinklers to rain water down on the ground

so she throws the wires into this water and electrocutes

a shit ton of other people but first she grabs

Miss Desjardins, like Choke, grabs her telekinetically

and brings her onto the stage safely away from

all the electricity. And while this barbecue

is taking place, Carrie just calmly floats out

of the building as the firefighters are arriving.

But before the police have gotten there, so she

kind of just walks away from everything without

anybody trying to stop her. However, she sees

Chris and Billy driving off and knows that they're

the ones who did this shit. So she follows them.

She's able to catch up as they're stuck at a

red light, but it turns green before she can

engage. And so they start to drive away. But

before they can drive away too far, Carrie sends

a telekinetic shockwave through the road that

causes it to break up in front of the car, halting

it in its tracks. And dog, this entire scene

is utterly absurd, bro. First of all, Carrie

has had these powers for like two fucking days

and somehow she can cause earthquakes. What?

How does she have that kind of control? She was

struggling to even like pick up shards of glass

in the sink 36 hours ago. And now she is causing

shockwaves, seismic activity that fuck up an

entire row. This shit traveled like. a pretty

decent distance like an eighth of a mile maybe

i don't know but again two days bro but what's

even more absurd than that is billy's response

okay because as the road in front of him just

like explodes essentially like forms like this

big ass mountain that he can't pass he breaks

and begins to reverse And all he says is shit

town. Like this dude really thinks so little

of his hometown. He believes it's entirely plausible

that the road would just spontaneously explode

in front of him right when he's trying to escape

this crime he's just committed. And that's just

like a regular day in the city. Like, oh shit,

the town's on that bullshit again. Here we go.

I got to get out of here. Bro, what? Like, imagine

someone just driving down the street in 1945

Nagasaki and just being like, oh, shit town.

Like, no, I think there are some other extreme

factors at play here. But Billy gets the car

turned around and starts driving back in the

direction they came and they see Carrie standing

in the middle of the road. So Chris tells Billy

to run her down and he gives her a look that's

kind of like, uh, this bitch is a little bit

crazy, but he's like, whatever. Again, we've

come this far. Gotta commit. So he accelerates

at Carrie. who then uses her powers to stop the

car instantly. It's like it just drove into a

brick wall. And Billy, who's not wearing his

seatbelt, gets rocked in the face by the steering

wheel, which stabs his brain with his nose bone.

And he dies. Chris, however, was wearing her

seatbelt, so she survives this crash. And she

shoves deadass Billy to the side to reverse the

car before trying to run Carrie over again. Like

bruh do you not just remember what happened 12

seconds ago son? I don't know what she expected

to happen here but what did happen is that Carrie

lifted the car into the air but Chris keeps flooring

it so Carrie throws the car down behind her.

So Chris ends up flooring it into a gas station

pump, which makes her face fly through the windshield.

Gets all fucked up and gasoline is like dripping

around the car. But as Carrie approaches, Chris

sees her is like, oh shit, but she dies. But

Carrie's like, you know what? That's not enough.

So Carrie still blows her ass up using the lead

gas and some sparks. Carrie ends up walking all

the way back home somehow going completely unnoticed

by anyone despite being completely covered head

to toe in pig's blood and probably soot and shit

from this fire that she started but hey whatever

I guess the town has other problems to worry

about. But as she gets home she sees that her

mom has broken out of the prayer closet not only

has she broken out of it she like clawed her

way out of it so That crack that was there initially

from Carrie, her mom got her fingers in there

and broke it out even more. And it's like all

bloody hand and fingerprints all over the place.

So she was really committed to getting out of

there. But Carrie's not exactly sure where she

is. So she's like, all right, I guess that's

a later problem. So she goes upstairs, hops in

the bathtub to get all cleaned up. And then she

sees creepy ass Margaret in the hallway. And

now Margaret says they need to pray and all that

shit. And this whole time, though, Margaret has

been speaking with a hand very noticeably behind

her back. And so as they kneel down on the ground

and pray and embrace, Margaret reveals that hidden

hand is holding a big ass knife and she stabs

Carrie in the back. A scuffle then ensues and

Margaret high key was whipping Carrie's ass bro.

She was slicing her up all kind of ways like

Carrie couldn't even use her powers. But finally

she was able to muster just a little bit of power

right before the knife lands in her eye. So then

Carrie floats Margaret and impales her with every

knife and sharp object in the kitchen pinning

her to the wall. Looking like she's being crucified.

Right by the prayer closet. Carrie unpins her

mother who then dies in her arms. And as she

is mourning this loss. Sue shows up on her bullshit

and makes things ten times worse. Carrie starts

crumbling the whole house. And Sue had randomly

thrown up in an earlier scene in the film. And

now as Carrie grabs her. She's able to sense

that Sue is pregnant with a girl before Sue even

knew she was pregnant at all. And so she decides

to spare her. She uses her telekinesis to force

Sue out of the house before imploding it on herself,

seemingly dying. But who knew that telekinesis

made someone into an ultrasound tech at an OBGYN

office? The more you know. But the last scene

in the film, Sue shows up to Carrie and Margaret's

grave. I think she puts some flowers down and

the tombstone like cracks and you hear this scream

implying that, oh, maybe Carrie's really alive

still. End of movie. Roll credits. But please

do not make a sequel. So let's talk themes and

symbolism. We've discussed in earlier episodes

this season Stephen King's personal religious

beliefs, how he believes in God, but thinks that

sometimes religion can go a little bit too far.

And we see that front and center here with Margaret.

She is a little bit crazy. And there were some

aspects of this that kind of mirrored my own

upbringing. Like I was raised Christian. I was

baptized and all that. But as I got older, I

started to see some things and hear some things

that just didn't really make sense in my own

mind. And so I made the decision to follow my

own relationship with God and not what this book

was saying I should do. And so with Carrie, I

think she grew up. Being taught all these very

strict religious guidelines and having important

things omitted. And as she got older, realized

that, hey, you know, one, her mother wasn't giving

her the full picture. And two, the images and

pictures that her mom was giving her may not

be what actually is depicted in the real world.

And so she made her own choice to think for herself,

which I can respect. I also think this film did

a good job of like telling the story through

a lens of teenaged angst, like being that 17,

18 year old kid about to go off to college and,

you know, get your first taste in most instances

of some kind of semblance of the real world.

You know, at that age, we were all kind of feeling

a little bit rebellious, feeling like adults

ain't shit. And the way that the adults in this

film were presented, it was like they weren't

shit. I mean, Miss Desjardins was the closest

one to being decent. You know, she stood up for

Carrie, I guess. But at the same time, she also

slapped the taste out of her mouth in the shower

scene. And whenever she was confronting Sue and

Tommy about this whole prom plan, she asked Tommy.

if you know hey won't you look ridiculous taking

carrie to prom with you like she was a hater

at her core but the key symbol amongst all this

i think is the blood and i think blood was used

as a symbol for both life and death so in the

shower scene Whenever Carrie first got her period,

I think that blood signaled the beginning of

a new life for Carrie as she started her transformation

into a regular teenage girl. She's not as sheltered

anymore. After this, she becomes more confident.

She finds herself feeling more hopeful, thinking

that, hey, you know, maybe she can have. enjoyment

in life maybe she can meet a nice boy and settle

down and be happy or whatever like she's thinking

of these things that she had never thought were

possible for her before and then you contrast

that with the prom scene i think that blood signaled

the death of all of this hope that carrie had

been feeling the hope that she could live a normal

life all that shit and it gave birth to a murderer.

And at the end, when she takes the bath and washes

all the blood off, it's like she's trying to

restart, just return to how things were with

her and her mom, just those two. She's realizing

that what's outside in the world is dangerous

and maybe people don't have the best intentions

and maybe her mom was right this entire time.

She's kind of going in reverse. But at that point,

It's too late. And at the end of the day, I think

the final message that I took from this film

is that there are always going to be wolves in

sheep's clothing. Sue, in my opinion, was the

biggest villain in all of this shit. Even though

she presented herself as this nice, sweet girl

with the picture -perfect boyfriend and all that

shit. Bye. no she was awful this entire plan

of having tommy take carrie to prom to begin

with was stupid as hell all she needed to do

was apologize and she never did that she never

even spoke to carrie outside of telling her hey

you're being weird as fuck get your bloody hand

off me And at the end, being like, hey, just

stop killing people. Like, in between those two

things, she could have apologized. And this whole

bloodbath likely never would have happened because

her conscience would have been cleared. And she

wouldn't have needed to have Tommy take Carrie

to prom. And Chris wouldn't have had the opportunity

to dump pig's blood on her and all that shit.

Sue is the villain here. She sucks, even though

she looks like she's a nice person and was feeling

badly and just in the wrong situation and being

peer pressured, blah, blah, blah. No, no, you

suck. And all of these bodies are on her. But

that's all for me. I'm out of here. Don't forget

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But in the meantime, remember, always keep it

spooky.

Devil in a Pink Dress (Carrie [2013])

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