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Where The Wild Things Are
The much anticipated Spike Jonze adaptation of the Maurice Sendak book is wonderful, beautiful, haunting, amazing and for 90% of it the most depressing movie you've ever seen that still ends on an incredibly uplifting note.
It is the story of how Max gets into a fight with his family and retreats into his imagination to work out the issues he's been having. It is very true to the spirit of the book and is really just hauntingly beautiful throughout even through some of the scarier parts.
The interesting thing about it is that it's only going to be that depressing for adults, mainly because we see the issues that we worked through as young adolescents reflected on the screen. We saw the movie with Martha, Jared and Silas, and Silas really liked the movie but most of the allegorical and depressing aspects bounced off of him because he has no experience with the issues, if anything he was probably a little bored during the middle.
Performances were amazing all the way around, punctuated by the voice acting of the Things, all were spectacularly done in terms of voice acting and the acting of the characters. The amount of emotion they were able to show was truly great, not to mention that they looked like they jumped right off the page. And a special mention to the absolutely mind blowing sound track and score. Definitely going to have to pick them up because they were just flat out amazing.
All in all, a wonderful movie that goes really well with the book (which I looked through again when we got back to Martha's) and it should be seen by everyone, because while some kids may be sad about it, if they are fans of the book, they will love the imaginary world that is shown to them, and miss the sad parts.
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