Where the Wild Things Are

I have been looking forward to seeing this movie for months! Yesterday I made friends get up early to go see it. For the first showing the day the theater was packed and I'm glad we got there a little early to ensure tickets. The movie starts and nostalgia sets in, then something else happens Max has a life outside of the pages I'm used to. His mom is divorced, his sister makes him cry because she doesn't want to stick up for him in a snowball fight, and he observes his mom in stressful situations about work, then kissing her boyfriend?? The boyfriend doesn't make another appearance in the movie again. All of this is causing Max to be "wild" and the story becomes a riddled ride of psychology. When Max eventually makes it to the land where the wild things are, the monsters are fighting and terrible communicators. To be honest the whole group reminds me of these stoner kids I used to hang out with in high school. They were essentially depressed monsters. WHO HAS HEARD OF DEPRESSED MONSTERS??? There are real emotional problems in this story, we decided that the monsters in the film are Max and his demons and he is working them out while he is spending time there in the land. Every monster has a different personality, one is picked on, one is angry and destroys things, another curls up and doesn't do anything etc. I would not recommend this film for young children because they would get bored after the monsters loose their initial coolness. Because the story is based on the psychology of Max, kids might get distracted big surprise their kids! The graphics were indeed beautiful and realistic, Spike Jonze did a wonderful job adapting the story I would have never thought so deeply into the monsters, but the story as a whole was sad! I left the theater feeling like I needed a hug. I hate to admit this but....I didn't like the movie. I probably won't watch it again I'm sure a lot of other people really dug it! So go and make your own opinion on such things, I will stick with the book.

Last night I made an apple pie from fresh crimson colored wormy apples, I added raisins and currants and a ton of cinnamon. The crust was a whole wheat pastry flour bonded together with pure butter and a bit of sugar and salt. I believe I have captured fall in a pie.