What's Up with Where the Wild Things Are?

hello I'm the Nostalgia Critic guy remember it so you don't have to question what the [ __ ] is up with weather while things are the children's book about a boy who makes believe he goes to an island of monsters is celebrated by kids and families everywhere so in the film was coming out with its dark gritty look and held by acclaimed director Spike Jonze people got excited as hell and after it finally premiered what did the pub would think huh it wasn't hated but it wasn't loved either people just didn't know what to think of it my opinion personally not only do I think it was an incredible movie but I think it's one of the best films to come out of the past few decades why because I think it best understands more than any other film the dramatic and potent mindset of a child psychology what do I mean by that pretentiousness well let's look at the boy's life we know his parents are separated we know his sister cares for him but doesn't always show and while trying to keep up with appearances his mother looks after him but is trying to have a life of her own and he is more than an emotional handful oh and we also know one of their important element he's extremely imaginative to a point where he creates worlds to retreat to and other features to interact with and in the middle of one of his more emotional moments he stays in one of his fantasy worlds and decides he wants to stay there possibly forever now this is where most people start to get confused the world he lives in doesn't make a whole lot of sense for example they'll just beat stuff up run around like crazy and only say things like he gets it or did you know the son was gonna die yeah strange conversations and dialogues that have little to no segues in fact most of the world has no segways one minute they're in the forest the next they're in the desert but in order to really understand this I ask you to go back to when you were a kid not when you were with friends not when you were watching TV but when you were all alone no matter who we were there was always a time when we wanted to be alone why we wanted to figure stuff out but the twist is we didn't know that we were figuring stuff out we thought we were only being sad or being happy or just playing a lot of times though we're trying to make sense of things and the way many kids do that is through imagination sometimes we talked to a friend other times we talked to our toys but we forget to that many times we simply talk to ourselves we made up places we could go and people we could talk to and it isn't just really lonely kids that did this every kid did this at some point they could be obvious like if somebody did something we didn't like we could imagine big revenge or if we thought ugly we could imagine ourselves looking beautiful obvious fix it up scenarios but sometimes we didn't know how to feel what to do or who to turn to and in some of those instances we just made up places and people to bounce our emotions off of the worlds and scenarios didn't always make sense but they didn't have to you weren't trying to tell a story perform a piece or please anyone this was your world to look and feel however you want it to look and feel and because of that the world you create often runs on more emotion and less logic this is the world our main character has created when he wants to feel accepted he'll create a scenario where he's accepted when he wants to play he'll create a scenario where he plays if he's tired after playing he'll have all his new friends take a nap with them their justification lies in whatever mood he's in I think the best way to explain this is imagine these characters being replaced with something you strongly connected with as a kid like maybe Ninja Turtles or Barbie or life with Louie I don't know I'm sure somebody watch that it's your comfort zone where you know you can go no matter how you feel now keeping that in mind what happens in the movie the kid runs away to his fantasy world and at first it's great but slowly the world starts to turn against him suddenly things go sad and bitter there's no logical reason why it just seems like everything that should be good is suddenly falling apart and that's one of the great things about the movie it doesn't make it obvious what everything is it's not like one monster represents his dad or another monster represents his mom or sister you could argue there's heavy leanings towards them but no one creation represents one element for example Carol could be a mix of his father his own insecurities his fears his hopes and the feelings are the exact same way they're not spelled out maybe the kid can be feeling something as basic as he just wants to return home even though it's not perfect and can be painful sometimes but he doesn't know that's what he's going through he just knows a world that was supposed to be great is now turning angry and cold and he's coming to his own realizations of how to feel with the troubles going on in his life this is pretty much the kids therapy it's how he gets through his problems and all of us have had a time where this is how we got through our problems as well we just didn't know that's what we were doing because of that the movie doesn't hit you on the head with it it wets the emotions to find the reality and I bet if you really give yourself to what this kid is feeling you'll remember very similar and powerful emotions the same you had as a child - just because the worlds and characters you created weren't real doesn't mean the emotions you felt weren't real either they were very real so real that they almost felt solid and that's what this movie does it gives you that solid world where your emotions combined with your imagination some films do have a similar emphasis on emotion like Wizard of Oz draws much from your hopes and dreams as well as your fears and nightmares and a lot of early Disney films would put logic aside to fulfill those emotional needs as well and if you remember being really young and watching those movies you'll remember there was a time where you didn't always comprehend what was going on but you understood what the characters were feeling and going through almost like they spoke a language that was purely emotion but as you got older you realize they did have stories that for the most part lived in a logical world where the wild things are invites you back to that realm where the logic didn't matter hell it barely existed it lived in dreams desires uneasiness uncertainty pain happiness and everything else that your mind could conjure up but didn't know to do with it was a very real part of our lives that we often forget we went through and this movie is here to remind us not only how important that time in our lives was but that it should never be forgotten and it'll always be there to bring us back to that place where the wild romp is started door maybe it's just much a crazy [ __ ] I don't know I'm a nostalgic credit guy remember it so you don't have to you

Channel: Channel Awesome

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Id: ERNUYT3HU00

Length: 7min 17sec (437 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 26 2015