![]() ![]() ![]() The new cinematic Max, while still in wolf’s clothing, has had his story significantly fleshed out (not surprising, since the book came in at a little over 300 words) and intentionally updated. Our young hero, Max, is no longer merely a kid in a wolf suit who’s been sent to his room for sassing his mother, a la Maurice Sendak’s 1963 children’s classic. My first impulse, in fact, is to call it a “postmodern” fable. If I were still writing about politics – a hobby I gave up around the same time I stopped extracting my own teeth for sport – I might posit an audacious theory: that the hip and famously eccentric young team of Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers have made a profoundly conservative film in “Where The Wild Things Are.”īut since I’m not writing about politics anymore – and since I’m grateful to Jonze and Eggers for this lovely movie, and don’t wish to stick them with a divisive label I’m pretty sure they weren’t hoping to earn – I’ll just call “Wild Things” a wise, sorrowful, truthful tale of human nature. ![]()
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