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jazzfishMy eyes are feeling a little zoned-out today. I am. . . detached, lightweight. The ground isn't quite where it ought to be, in ways that don't affect my walking.
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uilos and I saw Where the Wild Things Are last night. I'm not sure what to make of it or how to talk about it, which is why this is here and not in the medialog. It was an intensely personal and lonely film experience for me, all about wanting friends and needing parents. Watching Max, who's so unlike eight-year-old me on the surface and still had so many of the same emotions, threw me for several loops.
The Creature Shop did a fantastic job with the Things, of course.
I have no idea what kids will think of this movie. I have no idea what anyone else might think of it.
"Is it a story for children? Yes, it is. It's a story for anybody who's listening."
--Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Child and the Shadow" (in _The Language of the Night_, 1979)
uilos and I saw Where the Wild Things Are last night. I'm not sure what to make of it or how to talk about it, which is why this is here and not in the medialog. It was an intensely personal and lonely film experience for me, all about wanting friends and needing parents. Watching Max, who's so unlike eight-year-old me on the surface and still had so many of the same emotions, threw me for several loops.The Creature Shop did a fantastic job with the Things, of course.
I have no idea what kids will think of this movie. I have no idea what anyone else might think of it.
"Is it a story for children? Yes, it is. It's a story for anybody who's listening."
--Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Child and the Shadow" (in _The Language of the Night_, 1979)
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Date: 2009-10-28 05:26 pm (UTC)