Where the Wild Things Are (2009).

[vía I Watch Stuff]

Last Christmas we spent some time at the movies. We went to see Avatar, but the 3D stuff, the glasses and the looong running time made suspicious of my real interest in that movie so, after talking a little with my wife, we decided that the movie we were really interested in was Where the Wild Things Are.

We changed our minds and it was nice, because this movie was great and lest evident than it could be expected. From the very beginning you can see that it was a personal movie. Not the Maurice Sendak's work adaptation, but the director's own version.

I wrote about Maurice Sendak's works turned on animation in 2008, if you feel like reading the post.

Here you can see a real Max living in a real life. Childhood is not portrait as an idilic innocence playground, but a part of our past, with many cruel and sad situations that we barely survived.

Max escapes into an island where overgrown stuff-animals generated personalities of topic children. The boy who solve all his problems with violence, the boy who wants to feel reassured under the protection of some other kids, the sharp-tonged girl who can hurt anyone feelings with no effort, and so on. They turned into a real danger to Max who could be eaten if not for his great imagination and the knowing of the rules of child-playing.

There are so many memorable scenes and some hard images (the skeletons of the bad kings, the uncalled mutilation of one of them). In my opinion it is not a kid's movie. It is for us, grown ups. And a good one.

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More about Where The Wild Things Are:

• Official Webpage.
• IMDb.
• Wikipedia.
• New York Times.
• NPR.
• We Love You So. An amazing blog that it is devoted to many things, a lot of them related to the Wild Things. A must have.