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RE: IT, Fear Response and the Spectre of Childhood Trauma - A Deeper Look
Bookmarking to read later and watch later. Thanks. Very interesting speculation. Now that you mention it.. they were very clever to use trauma this way in the writing of the script. I just saw the movie last night. It was quite well done.
Yeah, taken as a straight horror movie, it didn't quite measure up, but as an exploration of childhood trauma, it's really clever.
I read the book as a kid and never understood why King had the characters defeat IT twice, 27 years apart. It just seemed redundant at the time, at best creating a contrast between how children and adults handle conflict.
Watching the movie helped it click for me. That's what trauma is -- it always bites twice, and the second time is a bitch.