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angel-lopes2000 · 1 year ago

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Why do I think is very unfair to see Carrie as villain.

(Ok, this post will be not just as analytical but also as "little vent" for the reason of why do I think is not fair to see Carrie as villain. Here, you'll gonna see arguments, analysis and even evidences to prove my thoughts, so this the last warning: this post is my personal opinion. Don't take it as "Divine's Truth" for your life, especially when Carrie also has differences from many adaptations - so, leaving the warning, here we start..)

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Well, since I had started to study way more about Carrie and join this community for a longer, if there's one argument that most get me nerves is how there's still people that genuinely think about Carrie as villain like Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees. I mean, I know that Carrie as one of main Stephen King's works has many adaptations that can difference from each one duo the time and technology - but I'll focus on 1976's one not just for being my favorite, but for also being such a classic always remind when we think of King's story.

And besides the movie having many things not explored like the book, but yet, the premisse was the same: A story about an outcast and telekinetic girl that suffers bullying at school and domestic abuse from her religious mother when in one night, a bucket drops her pig's blood and then, she becomes furious and turn the prom into a burning nightmare.

And now, I want to show you some evidences that why Carrie was innocent, even after the massacre:

1. Backstory:

The most things we know about Carrie is she grew up raised by her only mother and taught to follow a radical and extreme side from Christianity. Instead to learn the main part as faith, love and goodness, she was way more forced to concern about sin and purity culture - where even having a natural puberty was wrong and "blasphemous". And according to Margaret's lines, she used to be married by Ralph White, but after the "temptation", she got pregnant from her daughter and tried to "give back to God" for thinking as she got birth to an "Antichrist''.

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About Ralph, we don't have any more information except that he ran away to another woman (And please, don't make me remember about ''Carrie 2'', because I rather to think as that cash grab as not existent.).

2. Her relation with Margaret White:

From the most scenes that we had their interactions, we can easily agree that they had everything except a real mother n' daughter relation. I mean, I believe that don't matter how conservative Christian you could be, you would never repeat the same fail as Margaret about never tell your daughter about period and how this kind one works. The impression that is obviously seen is Margaret is very unstable and abusive enough to have Carrie's care on her hands - I mean, there's a big difference between being a rough when necessary and other being very oppressive.

(In this scene, after Margaret learned that her daughter had her first period, she've punished by hitting with a book and making her to repeat religious lines like "The first sin was intercourse", while Carrie, poor girl.. first she kept asking about why hadn't Margaret never explained her about or tried to proof her innocence as she didn't sin..It wasn't your fault, dear.)

If your kid has an insane fear to ask for you even if it can have a little cookie from pot, then I'm sorry to say that you failed as parent. And don't let me to remember the times that she locked Carrie to pray for hours, threw her of probably hot tea or intentionally planned to MURDER her own daughter with a knife.

3. Her life as student:

What do I have to say? Always an outcast, bullied both for boys and girls, even when she had never given them a reason for. Most of them, even the adults itself, failed a lot - I mean, just on beginning, before even Miss Collins stopping the girls, we were already showed with all those pests laughing and throwing her pads and others things to a defenseless girl that was genuinely scared and probably not understanding the why it was happening and why were those stupid girls thinking ''so funny'' from that situation.

(This in my opinion, the worst scene - because once her mother never told her daughter before, in her mind, she genuinely thought as she was dying or severely hurt. I swear that the first time I saw it, I wanted to slap all those pests and cover Carrie with a towel and hug her to calm down and then, explain to her the blood.)

And before even we learning about Tommy and Sue, we already understood that Carrie was alone by herself, no friends because our poor girl never had anyone genuinely nice to treat her with a bit of respect, then it could even seen that the library was probably the only "safe world" she could seek to stay before return to her usual hell.

4. Her personality and emotions during the story:

Besides Carrie not being too spoken the whole movie, it wasn't too difficult to understand her own essence: she's innocent, sweet, sensitive, a type that she would be the most grateful person if someone even shared her a bit of his/her lunch. However, she lives a story where since her beginning, she had never learned which is love and how good is it to have someone in your side to give you affection. She's lonely, sad and scared.

(This how she looks the whole movie - like a rejected puppy on street.. )

Like, tell me, how it feels to live a life where you don't feel safe anywhere, you don't have anyone and yet, you get scared for not knowing if a person is being genuine or just planning you more one cruel joke? This how Carrie feels. She's just a baby that under good someone's hands, she would be able to heal from her demons, able to have better control on her abilities and able to even share a bit of love and gratitude she could express. I would say easily that Carrie White is like a "little animal" - if you care of this little animal by giving basic cares + affection, attention and a bit of training and you have the most loyal pet in your side that it will always be grateful to have such a loveable owner that showed it that is not every human bad and not every human that would just see the animals as trash or disposable toy.

5. The prom and after the disaster:

This part is which I think as the most evidence from her innocence. First, we have an excited Carrie preparing herself to have such a funny night to remember, once she was on last year from high school. But because a certain bitch like Chris Hangersen, it took many people's lives and this where we arrive to many people that really think Carrie as villain, and I'll gonna tell right now. In first place, all that Carrie wanted was just to have a funny night and nothing more than it. Second one, when Carrie activated her telekinesis, she had visions from everyone laughed and let's be honest, she had her limits. She was completely done to the whole shit she dealt for years and years, so when it happened, it's obvious it wasn't the ''real'' Carrie we know, but a figure from her response to this abuse. Who many of us already hadn't think or act by emotions from that especific moment and then, all of us regretted from how we behave? This which happened to Carrie. She was "blind" by her rage. And after the whole killing, we finally has when Carrie comes home and start to calm down, you can see by her eyes and see how shocked, disturbed and guilty she feels. And what about when she cried during the bathing tub?

Come on, it's pretty obvious that she was completely regretted for which she done. And if she had a help since from beginning, things like that could be worked different, but how she was always alone, this why things happened like we know..

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And now, I'll give you guys a resume about which is a slasher and short study about how it works Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees:

First, "which is a slasher"? It's a genre that works about a teenagers group where the main villain will always kill these teenagers until it finally has a final fight between the main villain vs the final girl. And learning by classic slashers, we understand that sex is nothing allowed (like horror clichés) and the main villain can have a tragic past or not, the matter is he's always a threat for the victims. And here, we'll understand shortly about Michael and Jason.

Michael Myers:

Main villain from ''Halloween" series. By which we learned is as kid, he murdered coldly his older sister and for non-reason, then, he spent 15 years on Sanitarium and hadn't changed anything during these years of captivity and now, he escapes from this Sanitarium to get his sister back, Laurie Strode. Unlike Jason, he has already seen as real psychopatic, like, he murdered many innocents for years and hadn't felt any remorse or regret for all these Haddonfield's lives and as we understood, he doesn't show any signal of abuse or neglect that would justify his killings, which mean that he was already evil by nature and don't matter what, he would never stop being an evil incarnation. In others words, this why he deserves to be called as villain.

Jason Voorhees:

Main villain from "Friday the 13th" series. While Michael was already evil, even as young boy, here, we hava a bit of explanation from Jason's past - He had born with several deformities, both physically and mentally and as kid, he used to be cruelly bullied by others camper kids until he got drowned by "death", now we move to 1979's, when now as adult, he "came back" to life and give revenge by murdering any teens that used to make exactly the teens from late 1950s like smoking or hanging out. Here we have a tragic figure, where even dealing with jerk bullies, Jason's way more motivated by revenge and rage - even if those teenagers hadn't give any reason unlike Jason's bullies, he was so traumatized that lost any logic to understand that those new teens aren't the same ones, he already hates all of them and there's nothing that would save him from this distorted rage.

As we've learned, one had tragic past and other was already evil. But which both has in common? Even if they had reasons or not, they still killed innocent people and were okay with it. They didn't care about nothing except to dirty his hands on blood CONSCIOUSLY - they were evil and this how they'll always be. And do you want more example? Jennifer Check from "Jennifer's Body".

On "Jennifer's Body", besides Jennifer being cruelly sacrificed by those band guys, she still could be seen as "villain" because even now as succubus, she looked pretty comfortable to the fact that now she has demon powers to keep attractive and kill all boys as wishes. She had never felt sorry to the fact that she can kill all of them and then, eat their bodies but instead, she was way more bad for no longer has Needy in her side, which also gives a high fact that even being everything that any outcast would wish to be, she still wanted Needy because not just her high insecurity but for actually, having a real crush for her best friend. There's no way that kiss could also be as just a ''joke".

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And returning to Carrie White, after looking by her backstory and seeing others examples from others horrors, we can conclude that Carrie isn't actually a horror, but a drama thriller, because even her having telekinesis, you don't want to run away from her, you don't feel scared for her and neither want to kill her by protect yourself like you would want for Jason or Michael. Instead, it's Carrie that would feel more scared for you first, because she doesn't know you and unless you have her trusting, you're her threat like the world itself. And this why I believe Carrie's innocent and not a villain. (And she doesn't deserve to be seen as villain.).

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