I read the original book when I was young. Back then, I never liked the book because I could not stand the thought of leaving home and joining the monsters.
I guess I was a normal, 'good' kid back then.
Ironically, I could understand Max when I reached the age of 'adult'.
Nowadays I am anxious to leave the safe environment; the safe boundary of school and home.
I feel that I can be a 'king' in the world of my own.
In fact, when I talk with my friends, I know that I am not the only one to think so.
As 19, I am at the verge of adulthood and childhood.
It is the strange age, a taboo, which belongs to neither side.
In school and home, people expect me to be an adult and a child at the same time.
Sometimes I feel that I myself am the 'wild thing', coming out of an egg.
Sometimes I feel that becoming an adult is getting rid of that 'wild thing'.
'Where the wild things are' is the place of adults that can only be understood by the children.
The things there act more like children then the adults.
They fight for ridiculous reasons, and their emotions are unpredictable.
However, although as adults people look down on such attitudes, such actions may be how the world truly is.
When I think of my childhood, it was not always filled with pink bunnies and sweet marshmallows;
I did not have the strength to control myself, and I went through the emotions of loneliness and sadness, emotions that were much deeper and greater than the ones I feel now.
Sometimes I felt jealousy; sometimes I felt hatred.
Reasons for feeling those emotions maybe childish, but these emotions became a basis for how I view and live the world.
I still have those emotions in my life; they are changing into different forms, as max's monsters will change into the monsters he will face in the real world.
The movie 'where the wild things are' is not exactly for children, nor for adults.
I myself am not exactly a child, nor an adult.
As a child, I hated the book. I know that as an adult, I would not have wasted my time watching this movie.
Yet I, the 19 year old I, enjoyed this movie. (At least partly)
Perhaps this is the only time I will.
Good personal post with a lot of quality reflection. I really liked the movie for the first 30 minutes, but then it simply gets boring and emotionally exhausting. Plus, Max gets annoying. In any case, the "monsters" are things we tend to hide from, but Max makes friends with his - seemingly knowing that he has to grow as a person in order to live with the realities he isn't comfortable with. Such as mom's new boyfriend. While watching the movie, I started to miss his real world, as it was more interesting than the colorless imaginary world with the monsters that talk waaaay too much. Good post.
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