There are no bystanders in the farce called 'The Joke'

Lesley 2022-03-14 14:12:22

School bullying has always been a global social problem.

There are various reasons for bullying: because they are weak and easy to bully, they are excluded because they are "alternative", and more often, they become targets for no reason.

The methods are also endless: or slander, or isolate and ridicule, and what's more, punch and kick.

In the past few days, a topic has been on the hot search: #王景静 suffered school bullying .

This brave girl, after being bullied for ten years, is taking her classmates to court.

This topic is hotly debated because school bullying has become common to everyone in their student days —everyone has been bullied, participated in, or witnessed bullying to some extent.

Today, the newspaper sister will bring you a horror film of "anti-school bullying" - "Carrie the Witch" (CARRIE)

The film begins with Carrie's menarche while she's taking a shower in the school bathroom.

Knowing nothing about sex, she called out to her classmates for help in a panic. The girls not only didn't help her, but also made fun of her as a laughing stock.

Fortunately, Miss Collins, the physical education teacher, showed up in time to stop the girls from bullying Carrie.

Seeing this, everyone must think it is very strange, how can a high school girl not even know the most basic common sense?

It turned out that Carrie had a mother who was extremely obsessed with cults , which also made a footnote for the discrimination Carrie received at school.

Not even Carrie told her mother about the bullying she suffered at school because of her menstrual period, and she was religiously persecuted by her mother for it (she considered sexuality to be dirty and sinful).

In the time that followed, Carrie gradually felt that there was a strange power in her body, and this power became stronger and stronger . She began to secretly consult books on this subject, secretly study and master her abilities.

At the same time, the girls who bullied Carrie were punished by the school , and the leader, Chris, was disqualified from participating in the dance for disobeying the punishment.

She held a grudge and vowed to make Carrie look good.

And another girl who also bullied Carrie, Su, began to sympathize with Carrie and decided to make up for the mistakes she had made.

Sue plans to give up going to the dance and ask her boyfriend Tommy to invite Carrie as a dance partner .

In fact, both Miss Collins and Carrie suspected that Su's motives were not simple, but in the face of the sunny and handsome Tommy, Carrie was desperate and lost herself in a wonderful fairy tale.

She fearfully sews ball gowns and uses her superpowers to stop her mother's imprisonment .

She decided to pursue beauty and go to the dance.

Carefully putting on her first dress, Carrie, encouraged by Tommy and Miss Collins, took courage, took her partner Tommy's hand in shame, and staggered to the dance floor...

Carrie was like Cinderella dancing with the prince in crystal slippers, and at this moment, she finally realized what happiness is.

But at this point, a real conspiracy begins to brew.

With a grudge, Chris, together with her boyfriend, sneaked into the pig farm at night to kill pigs for blood;

They sent someone to steal the votes of the king and queen in charge of the prom, and cheated to let Carrie win the prom queen;

They bought off the classmates who were in charge of decorating the dance party and hung buckets full of pig blood right above the stage...

The last dance is over, and Carrie and Tommy are prom queens and kings.

Carrie couldn't believe that she could become the queen of the prom . Happy and uneasy, she slowly walked to the stage. Accompanied by the applause and cheers of her classmates, she felt that she was finally accepted and shed tears of joy with excitement.

But in an instant, the happy fairy tale shattered into a bubble. Chris and her boyfriend pulled the rope, and a bucket of pig blood was splashed on Carrie's body. Tommy was also killed by the iron bucket that fell from a height.

At this time, the classmates present laughed out loud and booed with the mentality of watching the excitement and not taking it too seriously.

All Carrie's disillusionment and collapse : the acceptance of her classmates, the help of her teachers, the taste of happiness, everything is fake! fake!

Do not erupt in silence, die in silence.

Losing her mind, she blocked the exit of the venue with her super power, and threw all her anger and despair at everyone present.

electrocute the water,

hit by a heavy object,

Guilty and innocent.

Damn, not damn.

The dance party that should have been unforgettable in her life has become a hell of crying for help and crying. Carrie used the most violent anger to make an extreme break with the bullies who oppressed her.

"Carrie the Witch" released in 1976 was adapted from "The King of Horror Novels" - Stephen King 's work of the same name. It has been remade several times, but it is difficult to surpass the original.

The film has also become the famous work of director Brian De Palma, and Sissy Spacek was nominated for the best actress Oscar for her role as Carrie . In the marginalized Oscar of horror films, Truly a success not to be underestimated.

"Carrie the Witch" moved the horror story to the stage of the youth campus, and created a classic image in the history of the film - Carrie the Witch who was triggered by her genes because she couldn't bear the bullying of her classmates and the abuse of her mother, and washed the ball with super powers. Li.

Perhaps from a certain point of view, "Carrie the Witch" is a "cool movie" to hang and beat bullies .

However, the film does not conventionally treat Carrie as a revenge fighter who fights back against the Jedi, but tells the audience from a pathetic perspective: No matter how desperate revenge Carrie made, she suffered unimaginable bullying pain.

Back to the school bullying incident mentioned at the beginning of the article.

The client, Wang Jingjing, was originally an ordinary high school girl. She should have a bright future as she entered a key high school as a top student.

A joke, but it became the beginning of a nightmare in her life :

One day, when a boy was playing in the class between classes, he accidentally knocked over her water glass and joked at the same table: "You are finished, Wang Jingjing's water glass is 3 million!"

A joke that should have been unintentional was made up and turned into a ridiculous statement that "Wang Jingjing's water cup was knocked over and she claimed 3 million."

One pass ten, ten pass one hundred. "Cup 3 million" made troubles in schools and local post bars, and Wang Jingjing also became the target of public criticism and was humiliated as a "goddess".

In the days that followed, the "Goddess" became more and more popular , with live broadcast posts, and even students from other schools came to visit with their mobile phone cameras , and the "carnival" party bullying Wang Jingjing became more and more intense:

Want to get rid of family discrimination, but being ridiculed for being cheap and pretending to be rich;

A slut who wants to justify the scandal between men and women, but is falsely accused of "no shortage of boyfriends";

Even later, strange senior sisters will punch her for no reason when they see her on the road...

Ten years later, she still can't get out of the shadow of being bullied, and even the "live broadcast" of her has not been completely terminated.

So, she mustered up the courage and brought the initiator of the year to court.

The remarks of "3 million cups" are absurd remarks that everyone may laugh at nowadays.

But at that time, it became a sharp knife to stab Wang Jingjing.

There are many people who say: It's been ten years, it's time to turn the page, why are you so vengeful?

Easier said than done. But they didn't know how much harm these "trivial" bullying caused Wang Jingjing.

Before the accident, she was one of the top five in science;

After the accident, she had no choice but to drop out of school and missed the college entrance examination, which she regrets to this day.

Not only that, because she could not bear the bullying, she once tried to swallow medicine and open gas to end herself.

Bullying incidents like Wang Jingjing are not an isolated case, and various news and videos related to school bullying emerge in an endless stream.

Some victims, not as lucky as Wang Jingjing, suffered from pain and torture, and finally chose to end their lives as a relief.

I believe that in junior high and high school, there must be more than one "Carrie" and "Wang Jingjing" around you. This kind of character who is inhumanely abused in a seemingly everyday environment is very common in real life.

Most of the reasons for being dismissed are very ridiculous: newcomers to transfer schools, being secretly in love with boys, not good-looking...

The reason is so trivial, even, there is no reason.

But just like that, innocent people have become targets for no reason, and become victims of collective malice all day long.

And many people around, rather than watching, it is better to follow the trend and participate.

Never knew each other, but joined the camp of disregard and ridicule; participated in the "carnival" feast of malicious pastime;

There is still a secret fluke in my heart: Fortunately, I am not him/her .

Bullying is a "carnival",

"When an avalanche happens, no snowflake is innocent."

This is also the reason why Carrie will destroy the audience in the film.

In fact, it is unclear where such primitive collective malice came from, but it is overwhelming and deeply ingrained in everyone's heart.

Unprofitable, just building your own happiness on the pain of others. The unprovoked evil from others is the most hopeless.

What makes everyone extremely comfortable and heart-warming is that Wang Jingjing is now married and has a happy family life, and the originator of the rumor was also sentenced to three months of detention. The justice that was ten years late has finally been served.

However, in this world, there are still countless innocent "Wang Jingjing" and countless helpless "Carrie".

They bear the malice of bullying for no reason and live in fear and oppression all day long.

Moreover, not everyone can summon up the courage to find the other party to "settle accounts" like Wang Jingjing;

Not to use superpowers like Carrie to become a terrifying revenge queen.

More often, the victims will only be reduced to a symbol of "no danger to anyone", and they will swallow their teeth, mixed with pain and nightmares, and continue to move forward in life.

This is the coldest reality.

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Extended Reading
  • Mara 2022-04-22 07:01:04

    Really can't compliment the special effects at that time. However, the last outstretched hand still had a certain impact.

  • Hubert 2022-03-25 09:01:06

    It seems that my focus is all on the dressing room performance, the casting for the remake is more about looks, but Sissi's performance is unique, unless Chloe can be more neurotic. It comes with self-dark mode to start, that, our timeline is different, mine is faster, so I always use "The Shining" as a comparison.

Carrie quotes

  • Tommy Ross: What is the big deal?

    Miss Collins: Because it is a very big deal for Carrie White, and you know it!

    Tommy Ross: Well, she already said no, anyway.

    Sue Snell: Yeah, well, with a little effort, you can change that.

    Tommy Ross: Don't count your chickens.

    Miss Collins: Just don't try!

    Tommy Ross: Fine. I won't try.

    Sue Snell: Hey, wait a second! It's not fine! You can't order someone not to take someone to the prom.

    Miss Collins: Well, you know, I can make sure that you don't hurt Carrie White anymore.

    Sue Snell: We're not trying to hurt her, Miss Collins. We're trying to help her!

    Miss Collins: How? Hey, Tommy. Um, don't you think you're just gonna look a little ridiculous when you walk in the prom with Carrie White?

    Sue Snell: We don't care how we look. Do we?

    Tommy Ross: Well...

  • Chris Hargenson: [Billy sloshes beer on her clothes as a police cruiser appears] Watch it, you stupid shit!

    Billy Nolen: [fakes a smile, then turns to her as the cruiser drives off] Don't call me that!

    Chris Hargenson: Well, look what you just did!

    [sotto voce]

    Chris Hargenson: Dumb shit.

    Billy Nolen: [his back hand slaps her] I told you not to call me that!

    Chris Hargenson: [a car speeds towards them] Watch out! You wanna get us killed? Dumb shit.

    Billy Nolen: You fuck!