Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Carrie (1976)

Freddy: Here, piggy! I'm gonna bash your little heads in

and you don't have to worry about the bomb no more!

I've done a million of these posts highlighting dialogue from Brian De Palma's masterpiece Carrie (turning 50 this very day!) before, since it's got one of the greatest and most memorable scripts that's ever graced the genre. But somehow I always overlook this line -- it's not as showy as Piper Laurie's... well anything that comes out of Piper Laurie's lips. But I think it's an important throwaway line in the film that most people miss -- the film doesn't strain towards making political or cultural statements beyond the fascism that is high school -- this isn't De Palma's Blow Out, which is explicitly political just a couple of years later -- but I think the deep nihilism of the late 1970s is in here, infecting these kids to their cores, and this is just a little whiff of that. Anyway this is a perfect and precise movie, a perfect and presicse adaptation, and the quicker we brush Mike Flanagan's abortion of a television show out of our heads and get back to appreciating the GOAT the better. Carrie forever!