Where to find the wild things

Hi there everyone!
Last week I talked about my big love for Alt-J and their songs - lyrics and beats. Well, today I’m going to talk about this movie that I got to know, thanks to Alt-J: Where the wild things are! Actually I heard a little about this movie from a friend of mine before, but I had never actually seen it, only heard some songs of the soundtrack from the movie. But no matter what, it is an amazing, adventurous and very creative movie!

The movie is based on the book “Where the wild things are” by Maurice Sendak, and it is about this boy called Max, who seems to be very lonely. His alone mother works a lot, and he does not see much of his sister, which results in a lot of daydreaming, imagining and wild games in his wolf suit. He creates great things in his mind, and has a big talent of making up stories and also lies. But one evening, when he wants attention too bad, and his aggressions get too big, he runs off, leaving his nice and safe home and family.

It seems that he finds a boat, and sails all day until he finds this land, where he goes on board. But the land is not like any normal kind, because on this land some wild creatures live, and that is ‘the wild things’! It is to these 'monsters' or so, who are controlled by their lust and inner child, Max tells a lie, because he was going to be eaten by them otherwise. So he tells them, that he once was a great king in another land, and the wild things decide to make him their king, because they hope that a king could bring them out of their unhappiness and miseries.

Max is a great king to begin with, he knows a lot of funny games and he even figures out this great castle of them to live in! But it is very hard to keep all of the creatures happy at once, and in the end, when the wild thing that Max might end up loving the most, Carol, hears that Max is a fraud, everything goes wrong. Carol gets so hurt and aggressive, that he almost ends up eating Max, and in the end Max decides to leave.  

Everything about this movie is so magical, and still it is not like the same old usual romantic story, which is all happiness and rainbows. This movie, it being a children’s movie or not, has this very fine harshness to it, and the boy who plays Max captures this role so perfect, that this harshness is absolutely beautiful. Also the soundtrack created for this movie, is amazing! I have listened to all of the songs a lot, and they are all so full of suspense, just in their sound, that I can’t help listening to them in excitement! 

I would definitely recommend this movie to any movie lover, any adventure lover, any soundtrack lover, any children’s worlds lover or just any lover of the creative, there might be. Watch it; I don’t think you will regret it!

Love, Freja

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