It’s so obvious that the fact that someone penned the line about Mike being ‘home-schooled’ into the script as a partial explanation is laughable. But why Mike specifically? The answer to the question is obvious. Why?The rest of the Loser’s Club get an explanation to the torment they are put through, the offence they cause. Mike cannot fit into the mould of toxic masculinity that King so helpfully lets us is know is the making of a needless brute like Henry. Like the others, Mike’s status as outsider offends the sensibility of main bully Henry Bowers. ‘In all their flawed, unforgivable glory.’ And so the plot pedals on, like Mike’s legs on that bicycle, pushing desperately against chaotic laughter and the sweat running down his legs and the repeated bullies’ refrain: ‘stay out of my town, stay out of my town, stay out of my town.’ ‘Here is the Loser’s Club,’ the film says unabashedly. Stuttering Bill and his thick, claustrophobic grief. This is the exact appeal of Stephen King’s ‘It.’ These are the things that will form individual plot-points for this group of kids: their reputation as unabashed outsiders. The rest of the gang nod, clutching aspirators and tucking hands into pockets and wandering along with their own private traumas. Mike is cycling away from the most sociopathic, and greasiest, of high school bullies when his name is said aloud amongst the core group of Stephen King’s ‘It.’ (cn: use of the N-word in reference to Stephen King’s original use in ‘It’ ) Mike Hanlon, as portrayed by Chosen Jacobs, ‘It’ (2017) New Line Cinema
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