Geez, IMDB. Your interpretation of Carrie is depressing and off, she did die from her injuries and the book had her showing a wish to live, but being weakened and coupled with a last wish to be with her mother again. Rachel died for the same reason: she was weakened, not even having the power to shove off the roof, and she had felt remorse or some type of regret and weakening before then, which she showed with her mother. And yeah you two, Carrie snapped but she too knew what she was doing. She had full memory of it upon returning home (unlike the paler TV version of the story) and in the book, she was meticulous even in her altered state of mind.
In any case, your simplification of what happened to Rachel is terribly inaccurate and almost silly. You wonder why she snapped and killed? Let's see: not only did the people she was finally learning to trust stab her in the back more viciously than she could ever imagine, they MOCKED her love for Jesse AND her pain when she thought she lost him AND her best friend Lisa's death, and her pain over Lisa's death and LISA'S pain; breaking and ruining people after winning their total trust was fun to them. In the original film, I'm always horrified by the prom and the lives lost; in this one, I feel horrified by the nature of the deaths and any innocents who died, but not one. iota. of sympathy or sadness is in my being for the bullies. I'm sorry for the natures of their deaths, but satisfied at seeing them die; human life meant nothing to them. Rachel was emotionally flayed to the enth degree with the belief that no one loved her at all; her bf was dead, Jesse was said to have betrayed her, her mother was gone one way or the other, she'd lose her distant foster parents soon and everyone at the party enjoyed her pain. She may not have had the long, simmering pain of Carrie, but she had a series of more recent and very devastating shocks and tragedies.
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IMDB_Vits
11 years ago
But that's just it. As sequel (and one that recreates the climax), they're expecting us to feel the same way about both girls. Again, I'm not saying that what happened to RACHEL wasn't bad. But teens get that kind of humiliation more often than one thinks. Meanwhile, years and years of abuse... Well, I just read about Arapahoe. I don't know the details, but it could be a similar situation.
By the way, since my first post, I've watched the 2013 remake. It also has problems on how we're supposed to feel about the title character.
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pennilayne
9 years ago
wow you seem like a very unempathetic person.... obviously you've never been too bullied in your life or suffered extreme pain and loss or you'd understand this more.
and you say "this happens to teens all the time" you're right bullying is out of control more and more each passing year and teens lives are more difficult than they should be. thats why suicide is so COMMON every year. go do your research. you sound like a soul-less heartless idiot right now.
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rc1990
9 years ago
Maybe she wasn't as dramatic as Carrie but her father did abandoned her, her mother is insane and hospitalized, she lives with foster parents who only care about the money they're getting out of it. She's broke, her best friend committed suicide, she has an "illness" that she's known about for years but can't tell anyone about it (out of fear she'd probably get locked away too) and finally, she was recorded the first time she had sex and the guy who loved her,apparently,just used her for sex and for a game. I'd probably snap too.
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