Carrie White Burns In Hell
What is the meaning behind that? Why is she down there?
shareUmmmm...because she slaughtered a gym full of people? Not sure what's confusing.
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She killed virtually the entire senior class.
In the book she also destroyed much of the town and killed several innocent townsfolk on her way home from the prom. It made even more sense for people to wish her to Hell in that version.
it was also a dream that sue has.
Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.
Shes not. She went to Heaven as she did society a favor by removing a*holes from the gene pool.
shareShe killed everyone in the room indescriminately, including her date who clearly was trying to be genuinely nice to her and the teacher who went out of her way to look after her well-being.
While I think any viewer should be able to sympathize with Carrie and her resentment, she went too far in the way that she reacted.
With that said, I don't think anyone really deserves to be punished for eternity, so she doesn't deserve to "burn in hell."
She killed ... her date who clearly was trying to be genuinely nice to her
No, Tommy was killed by the falling bucket. It's an additional thing that pushed Carrie over the edge. share
Are you sure he was killed by the bucket? I assumed he was only knocked out. After all, at that point the bucket would've been empty.
shareThe evidence we get in the film is people checking him and reacting to his condition (dead). The book flat out tells us that's how he died. His brain is able to process this much reaction..."Ow, that hur..." before all synapses stop firing.
shareDont people get that those words were written on the makeshift cross on the grave, probably by one of the other girls in the school?
It's basically vandalism. That's all.
She does not actually burn in hell.
I haven’t read the book in many years but I recall the bucket knocking him out and he died while unconscious.
shareInteresting. I read the book but it was over 10 years ago. Thanks for the info.
sharePrimeMinisterX (2761), I'm guessing you haven't read the book? You might really enjoy it. It has some outstanding text, near the end, I think, about Tommy. Various factions, writers and investigators documenting the incident, are fighting about whether or not Tommy was a bad guy or a good guy. One guy presents a brilliant (and, the readers realize, accurate) theory, based in part on who lived and who died.
shareI did actually read the book around 2005, but that's far enough back that I remember basically nothing about it. Maybe I should give it a re-read.
On a related note, I also remember reading Firestarter right around that time and enjoying it quite a bit as well.
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The writer speculates that Tommy must have been a good guy, because everybody alive says so...and they're losers. Only losers would be alive, he theorizes, because only losers stay home from the prom, right? In high school society, the popular and successful kids have dates and the losers get left out. The kids still alive must have been outcasts and losers, for the most part. Yet they all praise Tommy. When the losers like a popular kid, the author insists, that kid must have been pretty darn nice. Brilliant.
Thanks for posting that.
Can't argue with that logic! I'll say that. And watching the film I definitely did not think he was a bad guy. Seemed like a jock with a heart of gold.
The bucket fell at least 10 to 15 feet. It probably weighed, empty, between half a pound and a pound. Falling that far, with that weight, would have cracked his skull easily. He might survive, but he more likely would be dead. Even if he survived the initial impact his brain would have been hemorrhaging which would have soon killed him as well.
shareMass murderers usually end up in hell.
shareYeah but nobody knew she did anything seeing as it was all telekinesis.
shareVery true. I don't think people (survivors if there were any, or perhaps their relatives) were able to connect what happened to Carrie because they didn't actually see her do anything. But the events happened right after the bucket was pulled over and this increased people's anger at Carrie. Also, I think people were also angry because she (the butt of the joke) survived the actual prom fire while others didn't and those relatives of victims directed their hatred to her.
However, while writing this, it is possible that since she died in a house fire shortly after the prom, people somehow connected her with the fires. In the sequel, Sue actually knew that Carrie had telekinesis but this knowledge may have come later.