Carrie White does NOT burn in hell!

fiction can be really dangerous there might be a deeply tragic woman in there who starts living in your head forever

My hottest Carrie take is that none of the adaptations come close to the empathy that King has for Carrie as a character in the book. Every adaptation sands down Carrie's more unappealing (by societal standards) traits to make her a tragic, saintly figure who snapped that night. The book doesn't do that. It doesn't matter that Carrie is a "frog among swans" who had violent fantasies and parroted her mother's religious rhetoric to classmates. She is still Carrie White, an abused girl who didn't deserve anything that happened to her.

mike, it's actually more interesting for audiences that margaret is an abusive religious fundie (and also a victim of marital rape) who tries to literally beat the idea of sin into her daughter, it is actually TIMELY to adapt that correctly at this particular american moment. WHY is he so scared of every piece of source material that has ever been handed to him? i MUST know

what if carrie was about a young witch searching for a missing cat in the alps

I don't know horror really, but it sounds like he's going for like the ultimate helicopter "won't someone think of the children" parent and like the problems maybe having to deal with things not being safe?

the thing is, margaret white is not a "won't someone think of the children" fundie, you wouldn't catch her at a moms for liberty meeting. she likely never wanted to be a mother. she is a "sex is fundamentally evil" fundie who beats her child with little to no remorse. she sees carrie as being demonic. like, if "helicopter parent" is flanagan's interpretation, it sucks. Badly. she doesn't want to create a "private utopia" for carrie, she's punishing her for the crime of being conceived which is why carrie Has to kill her in the end (after she fatally stabs her first). i think the tragedy at the heart of the gothic domestic horror of carrie is that carrie has only had her mother and her mother has never wanted her