
Anyway I never got to like Carrie White and I never trusted Sue Snell´s motive in sending her boyfriend to the prom with her. I
guess that I never understood how the whole story was built. But many years
later I watched Brian de Palma´s movie and then I understood. The movie is the
fear of being rejected by our peers. The film shows us than when a hormonal
teen gets her way the result is disaster. From the beginning of the movie to
the final scene we learn that High school is an uncanny cynical world, where all
good deeds are suspects and the meanest behavior is rewarded as the cool kids
impose a reign or terror.
The film captures the unpredictable violent life of
adolescence life. The surprise attack, we feel, is always around the corner.
The scene where Carrie dances with Tommy at the prone makes us feel sick and
unsettled as the camera is spinning faster and faster and a series of questions
got not answers. Then we see the bucket of pig blood that her classmates are
going to dump on her reminding us that our special moments, even the best ones,
can be ruined in an instant by our peers cruelty. The colors in the scene are childish; blue,
red, yellow. The contrast between blue and red torn in two directions- odd with
herself and childhood and adulthood- Palma,
like Stephen King before, transforms a teen girl into a monster as Carrie uses
her telekinesis power to close the High- School doors. Then she is no
longer the Queen of Prone but the devil. She is now in control and everybody
must die.
As is said, I never liked Carrie but I came at last to
understand her a little. I pitied her and I felt sorry for her classmates as
well, because I had been one of them once upon a time.
Sergio Calle Llorens