Carrie White is genuinely, to her core, kind and generous. She assumes everyone is as bright and kind as she is.

Carrie White is genuinely, to her core, kind and generous. She assumes everyone is as bright and kind as she is.
"We should tell people." On her first day of school ever, Carrie White experiences an active shooter drill. 🪡
In Mike Flanagan's Carrie (2026), Carrie White has never left her house. That house has been her entire world. 🪡
Carrie White assumes everyone is as bright and kind as she is. That generous spirit makes her naive, and it also makes her the only one who can see how cruel the world she's just walked into really is.
Carrie's shock at the active shooter drill is the response we should have. The horror isn't that school shootings occur but that we’ve become so desensitized that an active shooter drill is normal.
Imagine you've never left your house. Not once. That house has been your entire world. 🪡