Clown back to soul

Elsie 2021-10-13 13:07:53

I just suffered a wave of mental attacks from the bad movie Dark Tower based on Stephen King’s novel, and I didn’t expect Stephen King’s status in my heart to rise by a notch soon. I saw the trailer of the film and some comments from the author when I watched the Dark Tower before. It is obvious that I feel that this film is much more heart-warming than Dark Tower in all aspects.


It’s been a long time since I saw such a simple horror movie. The background of the story is in a slightly gloomy town in the 1980s. The children walked and played in it.


The protagonist of the story is a group of junior high school children. After reading it, what I want to say most is where to find such a large group of brilliant children, with bright eyes and white teeth, without too much worries about life and school, and the slightly growing hormones are killing them. From childhood to adolescence, there are no senseless passion scenes that are common in horror movies with college students and young people as the protagonists. When encountering conflicts, they start to act (act) (dead) independently, and they are stupid and stubborn. The role does not exist in the protagonist's team, only the gentle ambiguity and the faint budding of longing. The teenagers and girls were at their best age, riding bicycles and playing in the water, helping each other mischievously within a harmless range. They will also have quarrels and disputes, but in the end they still clenched their immature fists for their little friends, and carried on their own adventures in the dark corners that the adults dismissed.


In the most classic trailer of the film, in a gloomy rainy day, Georgie ran with his brother's small waxed paper boat, and inadvertently followed the boat flowing into the sewer on the road that was beyond disaster. At that time, this short three-minute preview before watching other films in the theater made me startled in a cold sweat by the clown that suddenly appeared in the sewer. Although the whole trailer didn't show any shocking scenes, only the dialogue between Joker and George, still feels creepy. The drooling clown used the curiosity of children and the fantasy of eating, drinking and having fun to lure Georgie to no avail. After all, the terrible appearance appeared in the sewer, even the eyes of children who never knew the world seemed too suspicious. It's a pity that the child underestimated the malice of the world after all. He thought that after politely and sincerely asking the other party for his own things, he could return to daily life, but unexpectedly, not everything is done in accordance with the rules of the world.



George is missing. Leave the gloomy family. She lives in a single-parent family and suffers from her father’s perverted control all the time. She is bullied by her female classmates at school and is bullied by her female classmates (?). The super long-winded young Eddie, who was over-protected by a single mother, began to talk super fast like a machine gun when he was nervous. A little fat man who loves to read books and immerses himself in his own world. Stuttering is always ridiculed, and trying to find his younger brother George, but his father yells at the coffin and he is not allowed to mention the male protagonist Bill. The timid sheep-herding boy Mike. The very serious church boy Stanley. With red lips, white teeth, and long curly hair, he loves to talk. If he thought it was a girl until the swimming plot, Richard was a farsighted boy. Every character has been portrayed vividly in this short two-hour movie. Every time he listens to Richard who is chattering and crackling, everyone in the theater can’t help but laugh, not only because of his lines. It's funny, and because I think of it as a child, it seems that there is always such a small partner who is super annoying and has a bold and small voice, but it always brings us joy.


Although the process of adventure always makes me think about "why all the adults in this world seem to be dead as if there is no sense of existence", but considering the two or three parents portrayed in this film, either are indifferent to the children's ideas, or protected Excessive or pathological restraint, it seems that it is really not very reliable. Even sometimes, only when they get together to play and laugh, can they slowly heal the wounds caused by their family and bad children.

The next thing I want to talk about is of course the core of the film-the horror element.
I have to say that the screenwriter knows very well what children are afraid of, not only jump scares that are only found in movies like clowns that suddenly appear, but also the gloomy basement where no one is full of clutter, and always feel that there is something in the uneven shadows. I was spying on myself; the weird abstract paintings placed in the dim study, I always feel that the distorted human faces in the paintings seem to have souls every time I walk through the paintings; the dirty sewers, the quiet underground library, Ghostly deserted wooden houses, suddenly opened doors... Seeing these, you no longer complain about why the protagonists in the film do not run away or seek help from adults every time they see these scenes. Because when we were children, we were unavoidably afraid of those dim places and sudden noises. Even when we grow up, we know that there are no ghosts in the world. Those so-called horrors are nothing but our inner fantasy. By magnifying these fears once again through the child's perspective, we seem to have once again returned to that tiny body, following the protagonist to experience the small, quiet but tingling horror of the scalp.


Despite the praise of such a big pass, this film still has some problems that I personally think, such as the school bully who plays soy sauce. This character has a clear-cut position in the early stage. It can be said that without him the protagonist group might not be able to gather so many people. , But after he revealed his fragile side and was bewitched by the clown, the whole character suddenly looked like a derailed train, suddenly ran away, and the little friends who were hilarious together were no longer there, and then left the scene casually...It feels really casual.
Seeing the ending, I suddenly felt a little sad. The little fat man was the first to talk to the heroine in the protagonist group. He also sent a postcard to the heroine. The heroine also treasured it. Later, he even offered his first kiss to save the heroine. As a result, The female protagonist is still with the male protagonist who killed halfway, the world is really full of malice towards the fat man...

The new discovery of the second brush: the
female protagonist has been wearing safety pants.
At first I wanted to say that Xiaopang was miserable, but later discovered that in the latter half of the process because the hero insisted on eliminating IT, Xiaopang was a bit clumsy (although it is normal), maybe this is also a hint. (Although the female protagonist obviously likes the male protagonist in the slideshow.)


Generally speaking, this film is a very fresh and comfortable horror film. Although the plot logic cannot withstand scrutiny, it does not have the deliberate and annoying anti-intellectual plot of many commercial horror films today. Under the background of the unique story of the ten's, the meticulous handling of the fear of children’s inner heart, and the layers of care about family issues and children’s growth environment that have been outdated in all ages, all make this film reach A height that "at first glance, none of the parts are too provocative, but together they are very exciting".
This film can be said to be a feast for horror film lovers who are afraid of clowns and do not lose their innocence.

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  • Kacey 2022-03-24 09:01:08

    Generally, a little disappointed, not very scary. . . Personally, I don’t think it’s more horrible than Annabelle 2. This point is too high

  • Nedra 2022-03-23 09:01:08

    The horror version of "Stranger Things", a mix and match of the Transformers in Harry Potter 3, the little actor who played the male lead in Weird, bears all the laughs in this film. I screamed once in the middle, covering my eyes many times, and the background music was scarier than the movie. There are the tension and excitement of horror movies, and the youthfulness and beauty of movies, which are beyond expectations. Fully five stars.

It quotes

  • Beverly Marsh: I want to run towards something, not away.

  • Stanley Uris: [Bill holds up a sneaker he found in the sewer] Shit... don't tell me that's...

    Bill Denbrough: No... Georgie wore galoshes.

    Eddie Kaspbrak: Whose sneaker is it?

    Richie Tozier: It's Betty Ripsom's.

    Eddie Kaspbrak: Oh shit. Oh god. Oh fuck! I don't like this.

    Richie Tozier: How do you think Betty feels? Running around these tunnels with only one frickin shoe?