CARRIE
review by
ANIZ FILMVALA.
*****
CRITIC VIEW.
Carrie is a paranormal repulsion movie. Chloë Grace Moretz as
the ostensibl Carrie White delivers a disturbingly brilliant role and Julianne
Moore as Carrie's mother Margaret White showcase her multifaceted talent.
The latest
'Carrie' emphasize the novelty of the treatment which director Kimberly Pierce
has shaped the film,but she require the aptitude of directors like DePalma.
Though
the film is lacking any redeeming quality which is a gradation to make a paranormal
movie.
You hardly have a moment in the film where you get chill down your spine,
apart from the opening sequence [Margaret White gives birth] and the climax[Carrie
unleashes her telekinesis and slaughter’s numerous of the students]
But surely
not a masterpiece.
STORY.
Alone in her home, Margaret White (Julianne Moore), a deeply
religious woman, gives birth to a baby girl. She initially intends to kill the
infant, but then changes her mind. Years later, her daughter Carrie (Chloe
Grace Moretz), a shy, under-confident girl, nears her graduation from Ewen High
School in Maine.
While showering after gym class at school, Carrie
experiences her first menstrual period. She naively thinks she's bleeding to
death. The other girls laugh and tease her. Long-time bully, Chris Hargensen
(Portia Doubleday), records the event on her smartphone. Gym teacher Miss
Desjardin (Judy Greer) comforts Carrie and sends her home with Margaret, who
believes menstruation is a sexual sin. Margaret demands that Carrie abstain
from showering with the others. When Carrie refuses, Margaret hits her with a
Bible and locks her in her "prayer closet". As Carrie screams to be
let out, a crack appears on the door, and the crucifix in the closet begins to
bleed.
Miss Desjardin informs the girls who teased Carrie that they
will endure boot-camp style detention for their behavior. When Chris, who
uploaded the video of the incident on YouTube, refuses, she is suspended from
school and banned from the prom. She storms out, vowing revenge. Carrie learns
that she has telekinesis, the ability to move things with her mind. She
researches her abilities, learning to harness them. Sue Snell (Gabriella Wilde)
regrets teasing Carrie in the incident and attempts to make amends by asking
her boyfriend, Tommy Ross (Ansel Elgort), to take Carrie to the prom. Carrie
accepts Tommy's invitation. When she tells her mother, Margaret forbids Carrie
to attend. Asking her mother to relent, Carrie manifests her telekinesis.
Margaret believes this power comes from the Devil and is proof that Carrie has
been corrupted by sin.
Chris, her boyfriend Billy Nolan (Alex Russell), and his
friends plan revenge on Carrie. They kill a pig and drain its blood into a
bucket. Margaret tries to prevent Carrie from going to the prom, but Carrie
locks her mother in the closet. At the prom, Carrie is nervous and shy, but
Tommy kindly puts her at ease. As part of Chris and Billy's plan, Chris's best
friend Tina Blake (Zoe Belkin) creates fake ballots that name Carrie and Tommy
prom queen and king. At home, Sue receives a text from Chris taunting her about
her revenge on Carrie. Sue drives to the prom, arriving just as Carrie and
Tommy are about to be crowned.Sue sees the bucket of pig's blood dangling above
Carrie but, before she can warn anyone, Miss Desjardin hustles her out,
suspecting that Sue is planning to humiliate Carrie.
Chris dumps the bucket of pig's blood onto Carrie and Tommy.
The bucket falls onto Tommy's head, killing him. Tina then plays the shower
video on the large screens above the stage, inciting laughter from most of the
audience. Enraged, Carrie unleashes her telekinesis, killing several of the
students (mostly those who tormented her), leaving several of the other
students and staff (including Miss Desjardin) to escape. A fire breaks out and,
as the school burns to the ground, Carrie walks away, leaving a trail of fire
and destruction in her wake. Chris and Billy attempt to flee in Billy's car.
Chris urges Billy to run Carrie over, but Carrie kills Billy and throws the car
into a gas station, setting Chris and the car on fire.
Carrie arrives home and she and Margaret embrace. Margaret
tells Carrie about the night of Carrie's conception. After having shared a bed
platonically with her husband, they yielded to temptation one night and, after
praying for strength, Carrie's father "took" Margaret, who enjoyed
the experience. Margaret attacks Carrie, who attempts to flee but kills her
with several sharp tools. She becomes hysterical and makes stones rain from the
sky to crush the house. When Sue arrives, a furious Carrie grabs her with her
powers, but senses something inside Sue, and tells her that her baby is female.
Carrie pushes a stunned Sue out of the house to safety as the house collapses
and apparently kills Carrie.
As a voice-over gives her testimony in court regarding the
prom incident, Sue visits Carrie's grave and places a single white rose by the
headstone. As she leaves, the gravestone's surface begins to break and Carrie's
voice is heard.
