My reading on The Craft
First time posting on this sub and fairly new on reddit so bear with me
Last week after i tried to watch the sequel for the movie The Craft (1996) and i hated it and thought wait a minute... i could just watch the original instead
For those who haven't watched it the movie centers around 4 high school teenagers who find eachother after being ostracized by their peers; Rochelle the only black student on the whole school and is bullied by a racist B, Bonnie who is introverted due to having scars on her body after an accident, Nancy who is poor and Sarah the new student (im not going to spoil the rest of what happened but there is something important for sarah and nancy to bond over) Together they delve in magic which eventually ends up in disaster.
So back to my experience watching it this time around, i came to the conclusion that Sarah was the villain of the story. She's white, she's pretty and she is rich. The other 3 were rejected but sarah had everything to be a part of the rest of the kids at school, she had trauma for sure, but she was confident when she first got to school, so much so that she didn't even doubted on going out with the popular kid even after nancy told her to be careful with him.
Then sarah casts a spell to make him fall in love with her and then rejects him (after being told the spell needed to follow through) which makes him act even more and more deranged, sure he was an ass but she stole his agency
Nancy just wanted power to get out of an abusive life situation, bonnie wanted her scars to go away and rochelle just wanted to be left alone she even ask for the ability to not hate others, later on the one who cursed the bullie was imo sarah because in the scene in which they cast the spell Rochelle asks what would happen to the bullie and sarah is the one who says 'nothing if she leaves you alone'
In the end the power corrupts Bonnie, Nancy and Rochelle and Sarah is the one who goes unpunished. Ending the movie with all the power and none of the consequences.