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The new movie It is all my friends are talking about right now. When I went to Southside Works in Pittsburgh, I thought for sure the movie was going to be sold out and I would be pulling up the transit app to get back home. Luckily, I wasn’t turned away and I got to see what all the buzz was about. It is about a young boy named Bill who still has hope that his younger brother, Georgie, is still alive after a mysterious disappearance. Despite the fact that Bill’s parents have given up on figuring out what happened to their youngest; Bill decides to figure out the mystery for himself. Bill and his six friends all decide to devote their summer vacation helping Bill find his brother Georgie. Little did they know a clown named Pennywise would target …show more content…

The small group of school misfits, referred to as “losers,” are the outsiders of the school. They aren’t just chased around by Pennywise, but also by three of Derry’s well-known bullies. These bullies throughout the movie add a suspenseful feel to the film, with scenes where some of the characters are near a close to death experience with the leader of the bullies, Henry Bowers. Henry soon teams up with Pennywise and makes a pact to help kill the “losers.” Aside from the bullying conflict in the movie there is also a disturbing conflict going on in the background for the only girl in the group of “losers,” Beverly Marsh. All interactions made between Beverly and her father you could see that Beverly had been through some kind of distressful trauma. You could sense her fear whenever her father would be near. This added an interesting factor to the film. It became a mystery to the audience what exactly the conflict between Beverly and her father was. Pennywise attacks all of the children based on their greatest fear. He targets Beverly by transforming into her father. With the added conflicts of the bullies vs. the losers and the odd relationship shared between Beverly and her father it adds more depth to the film. Targeting every child’s fear is also what adds a spooky aspect to the film. It makes you, as an audience member, afraid of your biggest fears even …show more content…

Supposedly It has plans for a second movie and this was only representing the first half of Stephan King’s novel. Some people were disappointed and annoyed by this because of how long the film was. Orr writes in his movie critique, “What we’re left with is a solid but relatively conventional horror movie, above average but overlong – especially given the decision to limit its scope to half of King’s novel.” The movie was lengthy in my opinion, but I didn’t think that there was much that could be cut out from the film and still have the effect that it did. The kids wrap up the movie by all promising that they will come back to the haunted town of Derry if it makes its twenty-seven-year reappearance. I thought Muschietti did a great job with the film, and I will be most definitely be seeing chapter two in theaters when it’s

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