Miktar
18-10-2009, 02:40 AM
Jonze unleashes his considerable creativity. The beasts are recognizable from Sendak's pages, but Jonze gives them names and distinct personalities that connect to aspects of Max's psyche and to the people he loves. Freud would adore this movie. They are vast, feathered, horned, clawed, beaked and definitely wild — irrational and dangerous, even when showing affection — and Jonze uses their threatening bulk as well as their capacity for cruelty to remind us that Max's taming of them is only temporary. For any child, it is near impossible to stay king of anything, even in fantasy.
— Mary Pols, Time magazine
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Just got back from seeing it myself. Power, deep, emotional, frightening, confusing: the kind of movie that will illicit one of two reactions from most people. They'll either enjoy it for what it is - the confusing, jumbled, adventurous experiences of a nine-year old - or see it as a pointless, flat bunch of nonsense.
It's pretty clear who, of the above two, is being honest with themselves about their childhood experiences.
Either way, this has shot into my Top 100 Movies Of All Time list. What Jonze has managed to pull out of a 1960s children's book only 10 sentences long, is incredible. In many ways, I feel Where The Wild Things Are is the true successor to the 80's children film era, following on the frightening adventures of things like Flight of the Navigator, Neverending Story and such.
— Mary Pols, Time magazine
http://clip2net.com/clip/m6496/1255826392-clip-14kb.jpg
Just got back from seeing it myself. Power, deep, emotional, frightening, confusing: the kind of movie that will illicit one of two reactions from most people. They'll either enjoy it for what it is - the confusing, jumbled, adventurous experiences of a nine-year old - or see it as a pointless, flat bunch of nonsense.
It's pretty clear who, of the above two, is being honest with themselves about their childhood experiences.
Either way, this has shot into my Top 100 Movies Of All Time list. What Jonze has managed to pull out of a 1960s children's book only 10 sentences long, is incredible. In many ways, I feel Where The Wild Things Are is the true successor to the 80's children film era, following on the frightening adventures of things like Flight of the Navigator, Neverending Story and such.