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They’re getting that from what Carrie’s classmate Norma wrote in her article, but Norma was full of shit. She was clearly just trying to justify her cruelty and protect her image.

Norma contradicted herself and said they all laughed because it looked like Carrie was in blackface (???). Then she admitted that somebody tripped Carrie on her way out and it made everyone, including herself, laugh even harder. Those aren’t the actions of people who laughed because they were uncomfortable.

Whenever people talk about how Carrie’s crash out was valid, there are inevitable responses like “umm she hallucinated all of the laughter, everyone was shocked, they were innocent 🤓” which is false, anyway. De Palma said “a lot of it” (not all) was imagined. You can still see many people laughing after her kaleidoscope vision ends and you can hear laughter in the background when the camera focuses on Chris and Billy outside of the gym.

Not that it really matters anyway in terms of Carrie’s morality. More than any other Carrie except 2002, 1976 Carrie was barely conscious during the prom massacre. She’s more like a vessel for a supernatural force (not a demon - the book presents her as an avenging angel).

I think she’ll end up liking Carrie for real! It looks like Emaline and Carrie are running away from an exploding car in this scene in the teaser:

A behind-the-scenes photo shows transphobic graffiti on a poster for an LGBT safe space, so I imagine Carrie 2026 may be incorporating themes of homophobia and transphobia. Maybe Emaline and Carrie become a couple (or are perceived as a couple) and that’s one of the reasons people bully them.

Note: my friend @vigilantechic is the genius who pointed out both of the above to me.

I also think perhaps Emaline is the stand-in for all of the trauma Carrie suffered doing youth, like everybody always treated Emaline the way they treated Carrie. That would fix people’s concerns about Carrie destroying a town that “only” bullied her for a few months.* They tortured her only friend/girlfriend for years.

*(It seems to me they’re condensing the bullying Carrie herself ever suffered into this relatively short period of time, and the level of abuse that the teaser shows Chamberlain inflicting on a new student whose dad just died already makes sense of the town destruction IMO, but some people disagree.)

That’s funny because at nearly 30, I view it as even worse now than I did when I first watched/read Carrie at 16.

These people murdered an innocent animal and soaked someone in its days-old rotting blood. Classmates knew this is what happened (someone shouted “my God, that’s blood!” and they could smell it rotting) and they LAUGHED about it and even assaulted the victim as she ran out. Also, animal blood is bad enough, but it could’ve been a human’s blood for all they knew.

I wonder if Sims 2 drew inspiration from Carrie’s mom Margaret for Mrs. Crumplebottom

Mother Mary, Pinterest collage 😊