tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-765251462163150576.post4907475651968177403..comments2023-09-12T04:14:20.330-07:00Comments on Drop Your Linen: The Two Carries Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-765251462163150576.post-37488947206909867512017-02-14T18:21:50.575-08:002017-02-14T18:21:50.575-08:00I utterly agree with you, vote for vote [except th...I utterly agree with you, vote for vote [except that I must call a tie between the Mrs Whites -- the '13 version displays a tenderness that is utterly heartbreaking, though in many ways too much so to accompany her death, & manner of death]. The first is unquestionably the better film. Scene for scene, even frame for frame, it has a power, weight, tradgey, & beauty, that is not even approached by either of its followers. I say this as another amelanistic someone who deeply identifies with Carrie {& with her, that is as a person}, who suffered abuse [though not from my dear family, but many other trusted & should-have-been trustworthy adults & kids], bullying, exploitation, & general scorn & cruelty, has unhuman abilities [I am what they call an omnibus prodigy, among other unusual genetic traits], & happens to be a young kid, c.16, of the generation that the new movie was supposedly made for. There is much talk about how this new director is 'more sensitive' to the subject somehow, perhaps said simply because she is a girl, but I do not find this so at all. De Palma portrays the abyss, the heart of human evil, hope, & frailty, the plight of the stranger amongst zer own species, & the divine glory within a shattered world & shattered heart with all of the horror & wonder of Reality in its fullness. The newest incarnation of Carrie's story at once under & over plays every note, leaving us with an histoire of jagged steps & limited dimensionality. Sissy does indeed not only perfectly embody, but indwells, Carrie. From her wounded yet transcendantly ethereal & elseworldly form & manner, to her natural poetry of motion & speech, to her masterful, terrible, wrath, to her childlike unbroken sense of wonder, love, & empathy, she is become Carrie, & Carrie in all her scope, the child, the beautiful soul lost in the dark, the crucified prodigy, the wrath of God, the bloodied lamb. the battered evolution of Man. <br />When one can hold up a single frame to a single frame & feel a world in one & a simplistic snapshot in another, one knows which is the masterpiece & which the pale imitation; & imitation indeed is '13, resembling as it does despite promises to the contrary the first film adaptation rather than the original book of Carrietta White's story. <br /><br />Thank you for a clear, insightful, brave review. <br />Again, I agree!<br />-Philoreia Florrie F. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06345547754245780632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-765251462163150576.post-56474161217919031802015-11-02T19:50:28.194-08:002015-11-02T19:50:28.194-08:00You know, for a re-make, I didn't hate it. An...You know, for a re-make, I didn't hate it. And, I like that I got the feeling that Julianne Moore took the roll seriously. Even if it was a little too serious, which leads me to my main complaints about remakes: Why do we have to remake classics, and why do we have to be so freaking serious and "real" when we do re-make them?<br />Design wise your are so right about the look of Sissy. No make-up really does wonders for the character and the strange look. The original will aways win in my book.Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00126307776038610838noreply@blogger.com