That one scene in black phone where all the kids start quoting back all the stuff they've told finney to the grabber culminating in HIJO DE PUTA FINNEY'S ARM IS MINT and then FINNEY KILLS HIM
five kids playing the telephone game from beyond the grave with one living victim to conspire on how to outsmart and blitz attack a freak ass loser in a fugly mask and murder him back ✨✨ together ✨✨ in his own shitty basement where he did the same to them is something that can actually be so personal
I noticed something when I watched the black phone; Vance is with Finney when he kills the Grabber, and on a very physical level.
so notice the aggression, the way his movements are fast and rigid, the way his curls hang in his eyes.
these are things we only see in him, even when we see robin fighting moose, Gwen with the bullies, Finney and the grabber when he first escaped, or the the impromptu fighting lesson robin gives Finney; all of the movements are precise and smooth, one solid motion rather then a fast charge.
now look at Finney
despite how we've seen him and robin fight, he's taken up Vance's style, fast and rigid. he's taken on this anger we've only seen in Vance, a confidence we've only seen in Vance (robin is confident but it's cool in nature where as Vance's confidence is a blazing fire). curls once hopelessly undefined (especially in the bangs) are hanging over his eyes. even the downward turn of the head that's similar to Vance in the beginning of the pinball cut scene.
it all screams Vance, his energy is in that room, standing over Finney, guiding him.
then all of this concludes when Finney is out of that basement, that confidence, that fire is gone, just like the curls, just like Vance. The boys bodies were found, the grabber was dead, that's the closest to closure they were gonna get, they would get to move on.
Vance was with Finney, he protected Finney, he got his revenge. he got revenge against the man who took his innocence, the other boys innocence, their memories, their lives. he got revenge against the man who made him feel weak, who forced him to watch as he broke boy after boy, forced him to watch the others fade to nothing. he saved this one, he had tried with Bruce and robin and failed, but he saved this one, he didn't have to watch him break and fade.
he didn't want to fail either, he really really wanted finney to make it, so he gave him more than a hint, he gave him his energy, the last of himself, the last bit he still had.
Vance was there, I feel it in my gut, there was too much of his symbolism for it to be coincidence. and I think it's the biggest bit of proof that he did give a shit, he was just tired.
loved the black phone bc the cops literally did not do shit the entire thing. They relied on a possibly psychic child to solve a serial killer case while her brother and his ghost squad home alone'd the killer to death
HE WAS THIRTEEN, HE NEEDED HELP WITH HIS MATH HOMEWORK BECAUSE HIS TEACHER TALKED TO FAST, HE WAS GETTING SNACKS FOR HIM AND FINNEY! HE WANTED TO WATCH TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE WITH FINNEY!
The Black Phone was so good no film has had me hyped for a 13 year old boy wrecking the shit out of the antagonist since IT Chapter 1 when Richie Tozier screamed welcome to the losers club asshole before knocking out the clown with a bat