Hollywood's Clown Month has officially opened, and the most anticipated pictures of children have appeared again:
Before the grand debut of the fourth-generation JOKER that swept Venice, it was the first to usher in another well-known Joker IP - the second chapter of Pennywise's return.
Previous situation review: The first chapter, released two years ago, tells the story of a group of small-town children (bullyed dead fat people, bad girls who lack family affection, orphans, deep cabinets... typical Hollywood weak image) to form a useless alliance , snipe Pennywise, the dancing clown who specializes in devouring children, and discover the story of love and justice in the process.
Coming to the second chapter, 27 years have passed in the blink of an eye. The useless alliance who has long left the town has grown up and become a well-known talk show host; or a best-selling suspense writer who always writes unfinished endings; even the dead fat man of the year. Transformed into a handsome and domineering president:
Alliance members who haven't seen each other in 27 years are reunited over a phone call for one reason of course: it reappears. This is where the sequel to the nearly three-hour Love and Justice sequel begins.
/ Pennywise: A Mirror Image of Deep Fear /
The title IT is translated as "It", not him/it, precisely because Pennywise's biological image is fluid: it can incarnate into different life forms according to the fears in the subject's heart, sometimes a leper , sometimes an eighty-year-old woman, sometimes a human-headed spider. . . Anyway, how can you break down. Coming to the sequel 27 years after the timeline was set, this incarnation of fear has a deeper interpretation, and also achieves the main theme of the film: a great reconciliation with the lingering past.
The useless member Stanley contributed the golden sentence of the film in his speech at the coming-of-age ceremony: "The nightmares we want to forget, the memories we hope to rewrite, the dirty secrets that we want to hide forever... are often the hardest. to escape". For 27 years, the members live in the shadows of the past despite being far from the town: adult Beverly is still mired in a twisted relationship, and her abuser goes from childhood father to grown-up husband -
Eddie married a wife who had the same obsessive-compulsive disorder as her childhood mother; Fat Bin couldn't let go of the ignorant emotions that summer for a long time...
/ A reconciliation to the past self /
As for Alliance Leader Bill lingering, it must be the guilt of neglecting to take care of his younger brother and causing him to lose his life. In the film, in order to arouse the fear and anger in the adult Bill, Pennywise deliberately kidnapped a child of the same age as his younger brother 27 years later, and used it as a bait to carry out a jump scare full of hide-and-seek.
At the climax of the end credits, Pennywise turned into a childhood Bill and his younger brother, and nightmarishly approached the adult Bill. The roar of "It was you who killed me" vibrated in his ears three-dimensionally, and the adult Bill, who was forced to the brink of collapse, finally raised his gun and killed his childhood self, completing a great reconciliation that had been suppressed for 27 years.
There are so many Pennywise hidden in everyone's heart, from time to time they return to their souls in a nightmarish form, swallowing their souls silently. The meaning of growth lies in being able to face it bravely, recognize it, forgive it, and even ridicule it.
As in the title Mick's self (ji) white (tang): "Sometimes we are what we wish we could forget". Every fall, every embarrassing moment in the past is part of what makes me today. After three consecutive hours of high-density jump scares averaging five minutes each; looking back at it, I found that Pennywise is actually not that scary.
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