File puptcrit/puptcrit.0910, message 273


Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:53:22 -0700
From: Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Wild Things Redux


<I was awfully disappointed that my most favorite part of the book- the
series of drawings that wordlessly depicts the transformation of Max's
bedroom into a jungle- was left out of the film. In Jonez's film
version, Max has to run away outside to find the Wild Zone. Why is
this?  That sequence was what made the book most real to me-- that I
could conceive the same thing happening to my my bedroom.>


        That reminds me of the scene in The Labyrinth when Sarah
thinks she is safe back in her own bedroom when the walls begin to
come apart revealing the creatures who crash and destroy the illusion
of her bedroom.  In that case I think it speaks to Sarah's internal
struggle with her transition from childhood into adulthood and her
clinging to childhood as it all begins to come apart.  To me its was
the freakiest part of the movie.  I remember in my own adolescence
having a terrible vivid waking nightmare of the walls of my room
coming alive with shadowy hands like black flames.  A strong
imagination can be a curse to a child at night time.

"Puer Aeternus is Latin for eternal child, used in mythology to
designate a child-god who is forever young." Wikipedia
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