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The Dark Tower<\/em> was pivotal, but I would happily claim It<\/em> as one of, if not my favourite, book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The King fans that are my friends gave mixed reviews about this movie, but I actually like it. Is it the book? No – who could truly capture that densely packed behemoth of a book? Well I am sure there are some, and maybe this, with it’s second part, will round out the story to encompass the true scope of what It is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You see some of it – you do; you get some of the sense that Pennywise and the other things you see are masks that It is wearing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It builds tension much more effectively than The Dark Tower<\/em> movie, and I find myself compelled to see how they depict each iteration of the evil that lives in Derry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like that it is in the dark, and that you can’t see everything, because when movies got so hooked on visual effects that they forgot that the physicality of a thing was less than half of what made it compelling, that was when they sacrificed the horror and the metaphysical dread for the literal. If The Dark Tower<\/em> had figured this out we might have got less explanation and more story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It – a word so small it might be the most effective way to capture the immensity of the thing pushing through into Derry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isn’t kind of interesting that it shares a cast member with Stranger Things<\/em>, a story steeped in the atmosphere of the kind of stories King tells; invested with that same ability to tap into something beyond the literal – a place where love lives, and the fear of its going away lives too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am actually looking forward to another instalment of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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