On its own, Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are is a beautifully-wrought story of the pangs and pleasures of childhood, loaded with both pure, innocent imagery and decidedly adult narrative themes.
If you had a childhood, you've read Sendak's picture-perfect tale. It's simple: Max causes mischief around his home, is banned to bed without supper and, either as a release of repressed anger or through the freedom of his imagination, travels to a land of "wild things" - huge, grotesque monsters who would love to eat him but allow him to conquer their lands and become their king instead. The book expounds those classic themes of family love, faith and self-realized growth. But above all, its length leaves much open to interpretation - which is where Jonze (Adaptation, co-creator of Jackass) steps in.
Jonze is a bit of a risqu
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