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Among the many film themes, there is one genre that has always been loved by the audience.
That's the horror genre.
Watching horror movies can stimulate our senses and play a role in relieving stress while entertaining.
It's a two-pronged fight.
2013 Edition of Carrie the Witch
With the increase in horror movie lovers, many horror movies are presented to the audience every year.
The quality is uneven, and the fish is mixed.
However, in modern pop culture, there is a name that has become synonymous with "horror".
That's Stephen King.
Stephen king
In the memories of horror movie lovers, there is always a part of the shadow from Stephen King.
Because he can always use a very special way to hit people's hearts.
This is also the most direct reason why he has been called the "master of modern thriller novels" and won two lifetime achievement awards.
Most of the films based on Stephen King's original novels also continue this point.
Just like "The Shining", "Ten Days of Danger", "The Mist", "The Return of the Joker" and so on.
The Shining
Including the movie that Xiao Hi wants to share with you today, the same is true.
That's "Carrie the Witch", which was released in 2013.
"Carrie the Witch", as the famous work of Stephen King, has been adapted into a movie three times so far and put on the big screen.
Although the word-of-mouth and evaluation of the 2013 version were not as good as the first two versions, it still attracted widespread attention when it was released that year.
Not only did it win the 40th People's Choice Awards for Most Popular Horror Film, but it was also nominated for Best Horror Film at the 40th Saturn Awards.
Lead actor Chloe Grace Moretz also won the 40th Saturn Award for Best Young Actor for the role of Carrie.
Domestic Douban gave a score of 5.9 points, which is far from the previous two versions.
Fortunately, the 2013 edition of "Carrie the Witch" continues the core ideas of Stephen King.
So there's still a lot of merit.
The protagonist of the story, Carrie White, lives with her mother, Margaret, in the quiet suburbs of Maine.
Carrie is a lovely girl, but her strict mother forbids her to participate in all social activities.
At school, the bad girls, led by Chrissy, often bully Carrie.
Fortunately, the physical education teacher, Miss Des Jardins, took good care of the bullied Carrie.
When the whole class and the teacher are taking pleasure in teasing and making fun of Carrie, only Tommy speaks for her.
This made Carrie feel warm.
Chrissy's best friend Sue feels guilty for having been involved in bullying Carrie.
To apologize, she asks her boyfriend, Tommy, to invite Carrie to the school ball.
At the ball, however, Carrie was humiliated again.
Tommy also had an accident and died on the spot.
On the verge of collapse, Carrie finally erupts and unleashes a terrifying superpower.
Friends who are familiar with Mr. Stephen King know that his works have a broad background and a variety of characters.
This has a lot to do with the era in which he lived.
Many of his horror works have "destruction" at the heart of the story.
But "destruction" is not an end in itself, but a way to reflect his hope for the "goodness" of human nature.
In other words, Mr. Stephen King can always show the torture of the nature of human nature under the appearance of horror.
Reflects and reveals the worrying realities of American society.
Carrie the Witch is no exception.
First, let's talk about the background of the era in which the original novel was born.
We all know that the American youth of the 1960s were known as the "Beat Generation."
World War II caused little damage to the United States, and the war made the United States a windfall.
Coupled with the third scientific and technological revolution, the material life of the American people at that time was already quite rich.
Therefore, the young people born in that era can be said to be the generation that grew up "with a golden spoon".
Compared with the pioneering spirit and experience of their predecessors, they will only shout empty slogans.
Until the outbreak of the Vietnam War.
The blood and casualties of the war made these well-bred young people completely disillusioned with reality.
They held up signs, marched and demonstrated, and stood on the front lines of the anti-war campaign.
But the reality is cruel, they can't change the status quo, they begin to harm themselves.
Drug use, crime, and decadence became a means of passive protest for them.
By the end of the 1960s, the U.S. economy began to pick up.
The third moral decline in American history followed.
Society is pervasive with values that pursue materialism, and traditional morality characterized by abstinence and self-discipline is on the verge of disintegration.
Influenced by the culture of absolute liberalism and individualism, the moral situation of American society has shown a sharp decline.
Divorce, single-parent families, births out of wedlock, juvenile suicide, violent crime, the incidence of these social problems is increasing exponentially.
Therefore, in "Carrie the Witch", the methods of school violence carried out by young people led by Chrissy are not reckless.
Not only did she laugh at and insult Carrie because of her menstrual period, but she also posted videos on social networking sites.
Deliberately making Carrie and Tommy the winners of the prom, he takes the opportunity to splash her with pig blood and play videos of her humiliation in public.
Tommy also died unexpectedly because of their "pranks".
You know, becoming the focus of everyone's attention is Carrie's greatest wish.
And Tommy is one of the few people who makes her feel warm.
Mother Margaret also treats Carrie very sickly.
She forbade Carrie from participating in all group activities, believing that this was the best way to protect her daughter.
However, under such pathological protection, it often backfires.
Not to erupt in silence, but to perish in silence.
As a result, Carrie broke out and became a real "witch".
The most frightening thing is that even now, school violence in the United States is still frequent.
According to data released by Every Town, there have been at least 185 school shootings in the United States since 2013.
Theft, robbery, arson, assault, sexual assault and other incidents are not uncommon.
And not only in the United States, school violence occurs from time to time in various countries.
In September 2017, a school violence that shocked the whole of South Korea occurred in Busan, South Korea.
Three students from a girls' middle school beat a girl wildly in an alley near a factory using iron equipment from around the factory.
The whole process lasted nearly 1 hour and 40 minutes, resulting in brain hemorrhage and mouth rupture.
Shockingly, the perpetrators also had the victims kneel on the ground to take photos and share them with their friends.
Subsequently, this photo was widely circulated on the Internet, causing shock and indignation among netizens.
The campus was originally a place for teaching and educating people, and it was also the most important place for students to read and learn.
However, there are so many security risks that they have even become a "testing ground" for evil.
It was really infuriating and sighing.
If you think about it, how come we haven't experienced violence in schools?
When we are students, we will always laugh at others or be ridiculed by others because of some physical defects.
This seems to be an "excessive joke" between children, but it has left an indelible psychological shadow on those who have experienced it.
As a social problem that cannot be ignored, all countries should pay attention to it.
Strengthen ideological education to resist campus violence, improve relevant laws and regulations, and increase the punishment of campus violence.
We've seen too many children who are battered by violence in schools.
Unfortunately and thankfully, they are not "Carrie the Witch".
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