They're All Gonna Laugh At You!

I liked the remake of "Carrie" Not only was it true to the source material, with updated effects that weren't nauseatingly over the top, but there was one pervasive theme throughout the film. A theme that I feel makes it very important; young hip white people with good intentions tend to make things worse when they try to help.
When Sue's boyfriend shows up at Carries house to try and convince her to attend prom with him, he is entirely convinced he is doing the young socially awkward girl a favor. He has no idea that if her mother sees her talking to him she will be in danger of getting beaten and locked in a closet. Again the young man has good intentions but he has no idea what the real issue is. He simply sees a maladjusted introvert when in reality she has been traumatized by years with an abusive mother. Then at the climax of the film when the young telekinetic girl finally snaps and goes on a rampage she does not spare the gym teacher that attempted to rescue her from her abusive peers. In fact, she seems to have a particular anger towards her, why? Could it be because again while she may of had good intentions at the end of the day all she really did was patronize the poor girl and never really took the time to discover what was wrong?
At the end of the day had no one done her any favors she would have still been alive. There is a lesson for hip young white people. Whether it be the lie of green energy. With its companies and technology that ravages that landscape, kills wildlife and has no future, their attempt to smooth over race relations be electing a smiling war criminal, the way they throw money at a social cause usually at the expense of the people they profess to wanting to help (see the pro-feminist tshirts made by female slaves) or their ravenous cry for military intervention when their favorite "liberal media outlet" plays up some convenient atrocity story (remember the Nigerian girls?) At the end of the day these people are ignorant of the problems and even more oblivious as to what the solutions of those problems might be. When they halfheartedly attempt to solve these problems they only make them worse. Isn't the blood soaked Carrie just the perfect analogy for what happens when white liberal America tries to help?