Chapter One Summary
- The main Carrie-ter awakes at 5am - she has trouble sleeping because of nightmares- and somehow knows her best friend is asleep. I have no idea why these two platonic friends are sharing a room, as this isn’t common in the UK, even as students.
- The MC is a writer, following the pattern of all the characters having “creative careers”. She has left a favourite pen with a notepad in the kitchen. Do people have favourite pens? I like to imagine it’s a biro.
(worth noting that in one paragraph Carrie has used : or - to reveal something like this twice…the one thing she loved- writing. Her favourite things: books).
- Loreali talks about how she loves books and has them next to the film version on her shelves in a organisation display that she probably lifted from Pinterest. Alphabetical? No no that’s too basic for her. She says she is “fascinated” by how the screenwriters knew what to cut and why. I would suggest she uses google if she was that interested.
- Only her grandma ever read her stuff before (this will be contradicted in about three paragraphs)
- In a line straight out of a wattpad fanfiction, Loreali scraps her long dark messy hair into a messy bun and sits down with tea, a copy of catcher in the rye (as there’s never been a film version) and a notebook because laptops are for normies. At this point I expected Harry Styles to burst in and claim Loreali had been sold to one direction.
- Carrie tells rather than shows to explain L’Oréal works at a cinema that shows only old movies because that sounds profitable and clunkly introduces the roommate who is “naive” and “kind”
but also very blunt and I would suggest she’s going to be one of the people L’Oréal saves but we haven’t had an exposition dump of gender or sexuality or race so maybe not
-The roommate Joanie tells L’Oréal that she is too talented to be “sweeping popcorn” which- A) yikes Carrie shows her privilege and B) thought Grandma was the only one to see them. Joanie also works there. As she has instantly conceded That L’Oréal is too talented for a job she also does, and admitted the main characters superiority she will probably be a “good guy”
- Apparently now L’Oréal always sleeps fitfully. Good for her recovering in an hour and a half
- explanation that she’s “only 25!” No one cares how old you are… people write screenplays at 20 and at 40. Could have just said “I want to perfect my writing before sending it out” or something
- exposition dump about nightmares. They’re now sticking with her and not fading after she wakes and in the classic trope- Joanie asks if them getting worse means something. Her nightmares are “different” because they’re about things that have happened in the past…
There’s a flash back to when she kisses a pale, dark haired boy who later dies in a car crash. She then runs away from him…and you can tell Carrie went to private school because he doesn’t tell everyone she’s a freak after this, which would totally happen at a state school.
most memorable line-
“she felt that the spilled popcorn was proof that people had had a good time”- thank god Carrie is not popular enough for this to be a trend cause I don’t think the Cineworld staff feel the same when they have to get the screen ready for the ninth time thatday
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. I keep creasing about the fucking plane
