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Inquisitive Carrie peeping through the fence.

She gets beaten by her Mother after this scene !

And heavens break loose !!

I have always liked Hollywood movies – they have a theme, a morale, they teach - and they teach a hell lot.

Story of a girl with a very strict Mother – a hard core Christian – very religious minded and follows the Holy Bible word by word. Tries her level best to raise her daughter in best possible ways – giving her the basic necessities, educating her, providing her food and wants to keep her away from obscenities, cheapness and vulgarity etc. It’s a movie of the 19th century , so now you can well understand how difficult it is for parents to give their child a healthy environment.

Now what makes an environment – Neighbors, newspapers, magazines, TV, Internet…school friends etc. is’nt it ? yes it is.

1. at the age of 7, she asks a shameless nude woman lying nude in the garden what her breasts were all about ! Now S L U T woman are the kinds who can lie like that in front of public to watch – no mother – a righteous one – can ever stand her daughter being exposed to such vile women – so she beat her up – the poor lil’ carrie ynderstood nothing. Mother thought that she is just doing the right thing.

2. Mother never told daughter about Chums (periods, Menstrual cycle – which the girls now-a-days are seen celebrating in the TV advertisements)! it comes to her as a surprise in school – other class mates make fun of her – except one girl (very attractive African girl with sparkling eyes – I really liked her eyes – do not know her name). Later ofcourse all the girls are given a dose of a lifetime by the Instructress and she throws Tampons at them – to teach the girls a lesson – The Instructress was also very attractive to look at…I like such chiseled facial features .

3. The good friend of Carrie requests her boyfriend to ask Carrie for a date to the College fest PAM ….or something. He agrees and asks Carrie out. Carrie who had read in magazines and in fairy tales since her childhood about Prince Charming coming and etc. was very happy.

4. In the meanwhile Carrie had learnt Telekinesis ( Mind Control and contacting the subtle world) through the Internet – since she was alone and hardly had any friends and other stupidities like partying, picnicking, gossiping etc. she could concentrate and even succeed in receiving the services of the Subtle world.

5. She tailors a dress for herself – a plunging neckline- revealing her cleavage and shoulders – to her mother’s horror – her mother could not stop her as she had come to know of Carrie’s super natural powers….and was rather afraid of her. She tries to tell her of some 13th chapter in Bible (I have not read the Bible in so much detail actually – sorry!) - where it has been stated that women who seduce and wear such vulgar outfits burn in hell for eons !- but Carrie does not listen.

6. In the mean while the other students – of idiot and sick parents , decide to drench Carrie in Pig’s blood ! and by cheating, makes her win the dance contest –she is invited on the stage to be given the award (my heart cried for her as I knew that soon she will be drenched in blood !) – and her happiest moment becomes the saddest moment for her ….not because of God but because of children belonging to parents who are greedy, sick, jealous, vamp-ish and villain-aceous IDIOTS.

7. Anyways – in order to give a lesson of a life time – the Higher Subtle Level – blocks the hall doors and many of them die - suffocated within the walls – short circuit happens – many students ..who were not even aware of what some miscreants had done – were burnt to death ! (quite like burning in hell….most girls actually wore revealing outfits by the way…) they all die because of the mistake of a few (4-5 of them) Idiot-rabid-street-dog born sons and daughters !

8. Back home , her mother sees her all smitten in blood and concludes that Carrie, after all paid for her disobedience and wearing that kind of outfit enraged the Gods and is thus fit to be killed ! She tries to drown her in the bath tub – but since Carrie had access to super natural powers by now, kills her Mother instead.

9. The Director therefore has tried to teach the world that – for supporting truth, purity and innocence, the Higher powers can finish, annihilate the entire world order….as it happened in Ramayana and Mahabharata, Sir Mosses broke the two slabs of 10 Commandments (the first time) on seeing the people, he had taken the risk for, dancing like pigs with nude women, cheap wine & black wealth !

One of De Palma's most admired and powerful films, CARRIE represented his return after several years to major studio production, and proved -- to the surprise of United Artists executives -- to be an outstanding box office success.

The film was based on Stephen King's first novel, the story of a shy teenage girl, Carrie White (Sissy Spacek), who is victimized both by her peers and a repressive, fanatically religious mother (Piper Laurie). Frightened in a high school shower room by the experience of her first menstrual period, and taunted for this reaction by her more "worldly" classmates, Carrie tries turning to her mother for support.

No luck there, as Mrs. White insists that Carrie's sexual development is merely punishment for some horrible and unspecified sin, then throws her into a closet as a form of penance. Slowly, Carrie begins to discover her only true defense mechanism: the ability to move physical objects by force of thought (or "telekinesis").

Meanwhile, a well-intentioned gym teacher (Betty Buckley) threatens the other girls with severe punishment for their assault on Carrie. In one sense, this strategy works -- it spurs the good-hearted Sue Snell (Amy Irving) to make amends by asking her boyfriend Tommy (William Katt) to invite Carrie to the upcoming senior prom. Yet it also builds resentment in other students, like "bad" girl Chris Hargenson (Nancy Allen), who conspires with her own lover (John Travolta) to make Carrie's big evening anything but magical.

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Plot: Carrie White, the teenage daughter of a religious fanatic, has her first menstrual period in the school locker-room shower and is so sexually ignorant that she thinks she is bleeding to death. The rest of the girls cruelly taunt her and pelt her with tampons before they are caught by a teacher and punished. Afterwards two of the girls plan to make it up to Carrie each in their own way:- Sue Snell talks her boyfriend Tommy Ross into inviting Carrie to the senior prom; the other, Chris Hargensen, rigs it so that Carrie is elected prom queen and then sets a bucket of pig's blood above the stage to drench her at the moment of her crowning. But they have reckoned without Carrie's telekinetic powers which she uses to exact a sudden and horrible revenge.

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Carrie (1974) was Stephen King’s first novel and was also the very first Stephen King book ever adapted to film. Indeed you could argue that the success of the film adaptation was one that really cemented King’s reputation with the public and helped him to then become the world’s best-selling author that he is today. The film was made by director Brian De Palma.

The film was followed by a terrible sequel, The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999). The book was later remade as a three-part tv mini-series Carrie (2002), starring Angela Bettis in the title role and with Patricia Clarkson inheriting the role of the mother. This was regarded as disappointingly bland by both fans of this film and the book.....but I saw this movie the one with Angela Bettis and I quite liked it - have not seen the older version - I do not think it would have the same special effects as the latest one !