Spike ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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The NYT has a pretty glowing review too.
Even so, it startles and charms and delights largely because Mr. Jonze’s filmmaking exceeds anything he’s done in either of his inventive previous features, “Being John Malkovich” (1999) and “Adaptation” (2002). With “Where the Wild Things Are” he has made a work of art that stands up to its source and, in some instances, surpasses it.
I haven't had time to post, but I loved it. I can't talk about it rationally, but I spent about the last third of the film in tears.
Jessica - do you think Emeline could handle it? She loved Coraline and watches JLA cartoons and such.
I think adults will find it more emotionally affecting than children (as usual with this sort of movie). If Em liked Coraline, she can definitely handle this.
One of DH's critic friends called it Where The Emo Things Are, which I think is about right. But in a good way.
I think adults will find it more emotionally affecting than children (as usual with this sort of movie)
Totally. Joe and I were pretty much sobbing during Up while Em just sat there asking when she could have her own Kevin.
Totally. Joe and I were pretty much sobbing during Up while Em just sat there asking when she could have her own Kevin.
Heh. Lillian, when not screaming in terror, was busy asking all sorts of questions about why Ellie died, and did she get sick, and did she have a cancer.
This went on for weeks, by the way. I think all she really focused on in the movie was Ellie and Death.
This went on for weeks, by the way. I think all she really focused on in the movie was Ellie and Death.
Huh. So was she sorta' working out the idea of mortality?
Huh. So was she sorta' working out the idea of mortality?
She is constantly working out that idea.
"Is this chicken we're eating dead?"
"Who killed it?"
"What would happen if it wasn't dead?"
Huh. How old is she?
She sounds like my nephew (now in college) when he was about 4 or 5. He became very concerned when he found out that his grandma's parents had died before he was born. "Grandma, where are your mommy and daddy?" "They're in heaven, Clayton." "But, why?" I don't know why he didn't have the same question for his grandpas.