Aside from the wacky horror and in your face comedy, the message in It Chapter Two really resonated well in some places, I feel. Especially around what I feel a lot of people go through on this subreddit or on a weight loss journey in general.
I myself have been overweight as a child and can relate to the character Ben in It quite well in that even if you’re not a new kid, when I was overweight and shy and thought everyone was talking about me all the time due to occasional bullying, I felt like “the new kid” every day. That alien feeling that you don’t belong, even if you have been existing in some place much longer than actual new people that come and go.
In part two, we see Ben’s transformation into supposedly a fitness minded man. He’s obviously lost weight and got in shape. All of his losers club friends are delighted upon first meeting him, sure because they are shocked at the difference, but also because he was a close friend of theirs when they all went through a traumatic experience together, and in a way-became stronger for it.
The thing with Ben is, he still shows insecurity throughout the film.
When he realizes Beverly, who he had a crush on in the past, isn’t seeing him in a new light and is still fixated on thinking she loves Bill, he must be thinking “all that work I put in, and there is still something wrong with me?”
This is further emphasized by Pennywise telling him that no matter how many sit ups he does, he’s still going to die alone, and my thoughts on this is that even though you can change your life for the better, we still feel like the person we were before. We feel like we don’t deserve better than what we used to be.
I just thought I’d mention it and bring light to the fact that so many people who lose weight and reach their goal weight are still unhappy. Either for aesthetic reasons due to massive amounts of weight lost, or because they feel like they still aren’t happy and want to lose more and more and are never fully satisfied. No matter how much progress they make, they still feel like they were mentally back when they were overweight and remain unhappy despite all their hard work paying off.
The quote that drives this home from Ben is: “You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.” Which I interpret as, at least in the weight loss regard, we pay for our weight and our overall health with our actions. We have to own that and own it to conquer it in order to become a better, healthier version of ourselves later on. But there is the risk of those negative feelings we had coming back home to us, even when we beat what we paid for.
Just thought I’d share, considering I saw the new It last night and just really enjoyed a few of the messages about how the past always seems to make us remember the bad parts and forget the good parts. And I hope that someday I and others who also have what we paid for showing up at our doorsteps time and time again will be able to keep the door closed and remember the progress we have made and focus on the good memories we will make opposed to the bad ones we can’t get over.
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