i'll eat you up, i love you so.

One of my biggest fears this year was that Spike Jonze, Max Records and everyone else involved with Where The Wild Things Are would not live up to my expectations and butcher my favourite book and what I was hoping the film would be... I have never been more glad to be wrong. After watching it over the weekend, I still can't seem to get it out of my head... not that I would really want to.

Walking into it, I knew that it wasn't going to be your typical "kids movie". The film, as well as the book of course, deals with abandonment, anger, resentment, fear..

so as I took my seat, I did chuckle at the fact that parents had brought their kids to, what I would consider, a 'young adult' film. I had never before cried or teared up during a film, for some reason I sat there and did just that. Part of me believed that it was maybe just all of these emotions I was feeling deciding to surface while I was enjoying the movie, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I had never before related to a character in a film the way I was able to relate to Max. The fact that you just want to know you're loved and you want people to know you exist and have this fear of losing those around you because you're full of anger, resentment, confusion, etc.. Jonze did a phenomenal job at showing all of this on screen and Records also did a great job. The other aspect of the film that I found extremely well thought out and placed was the score. Composed by Karen O [of Yeah Yeah Yeahs fame] and Carter Burwell, [who has composed music for films such as Twilight] the film would not have been the same without those two. Where The Wild Things Are is definitely a must-see.