[unclear: tat] better way to recover from [unclear: mid-xam] results than by going to a good [unclear: ?] Next Wednesday, July 11, at 2 pm, [unclear: udents] Association is screening Brian [unclear: ma's] Carrie. It's great.

[unclear: sically], it's a horror film - and one of [unclear: ry] scariest I've ever seen. It's also, [unclear: er], a very effective human drama an [unclear: t] slapstick comedy, and a sly parody whole horror genre. That it can [unclear: com-ll] of these things without [unclear: compromi-ny] of them is an indication of the [unclear: g-bility] of its director, and part of the [unclear: t] for is incredible richness. What [unclear: al-kes] it fascinating and compelling [unclear: vie-s] the audacious style (perfectly [unclear: exe-)] that DePalma uses to communicate [unclear: m's] audacious conception.

[unclear: e] story is about Carrie White, a [unclear: pain-shy] and gawky adolescent ugly [unclear: duck-] At school, she is an outsider - [unclear: down-en] and mocked. At home, she has to [unclear: nd] with her mother - a sexually [unclear: frus-] religious fanatic. Then she discovers he has a psychic power: telekinesis, [unclear: ility] to move objects by mental [unclear: ef-] When she gets upset, doors slam and shatter. Unfortunate, then, that [unclear: so] her merciless fellow students should [unclear: o] humiliate her with a bizarre practi[unclear: ke] - drenching her with pig's blood at [unclear: nior] Prom.

[unclear: s] a good strong plot, but the novel on it's based, though highly readable, is likely to be included in any of this [unclear: au-us] establishment's literature courses. [unclear: s] in many films (and novels too) it's [unclear: much] the story we admire, as the [unclear: t] is told. And Carrie is told [unclear: brilliant-]

[unclear: e] majority of critics, though, didn't