http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Sun, 5 Mar 2006 01:39:36 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/03/04/120540.php#comment-329766 Some interesting dissection of this movie. But not sure if I agree with conclusion. If I recall, the mother was on the other side of nuts but the bratty classmates were plain sadistic. The mother was more pathetic than detestable (although she was that too), more crazy than vicious. And was it really anti-fundamentalist? Fundamentalists don't act like that, candles all over, etc. Nobody acts like that (btw, only Catholics use candles, not "fundies"). Fundamentalists don't tell their children that menstruating is evil. Come to think of it, I've seen more new-age types with candles all over than I have Christians. And where do her powers come from anyway? Who knows. It was a scary ass movie though. P.S. If you are looking for a crazy, backwards and dangerous fundamentalist religion, one that represses women's sexuality and does a few other things like cutting peoples heads off while saying God is Great (that's as creepy as Carrie's Mom, don't you think?), might I introduce you to fundamentalist Islam... 329766@blogcritics.org Sun, 5 Mar 2006 01:39:36 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/03/04/120540.php#comment-329723 Well said. Well enough to have sent me to your blog. I'll look out for your reviews here too. 329723@blogcritics.org Sat, 4 Mar 2006 21:31:42 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/03/04/120540.php#comment-329705 I see it as being about the terror, power and force of sexual awakening, as well as the best movie ever made about the high school caste system. 329705@blogcritics.org Sat, 4 Mar 2006 19:03:29 EST