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Where The Wild Things Are
Yunior:
I basically cried non-stop through this movie, and also after I'd seen it when I was just thinking about the movie. Not like, sobby-crying, I am not a huge sap, but this movie really, really got to me.
"Is it appropriate for kids?" is such a non-question/non-relevant criticism of a film to me. How obvious could it have been that this movie's audience was intended to be broader than the book? It captured all the tremendous fury that is involved with being a kid, plopped down in a world you don't understand and can't repair. I kind of agree about the ending, but I also don't feel there was another was of ending it.
Go see it!
michaelicious:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 20 Oct 2009, 19:39 --- I watched this program from age 8 to 12 (they aired just after children's TV).
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That episode scared the living shit out of me as a kid. I had a weird thing about skeletons. It was still pretty frightening when I just watched it now.
Blue Kitty:
I wouldn't swim for weeks thanks to that show. Made summer vacation at day camp awkward.
rynne:
The way I viewed it, Where the Wild Things Are isn't a childrens' movie. It's a movie about a child, which is an entirely different thing. Moreso, it's a movie about growing up, which is to say it's a movie about the loss of childhood.
Yes, it's about childhood imagination, but it's specifically about Max using his imagination as a means of understanding what it means to be an adult. I'd be interested to hear what a kid who's about Max's age thinks of the movie, because it so clearly contains lessons about childhood that you can't understand until your childhood is behind you.
JD:
--- Quote from: michaelicious on 20 Oct 2009, 21:05 ---
--- Quote from: Jeans on 20 Oct 2009, 19:39 --- I watched this program from age 8 to 12 (they aired just after children's TV).
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That episode scared the living shit out of me as a kid. I had a weird thing about skeletons. It was still pretty frightening when I just watched it now.
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