Sunday, April 5, 2009

Where the Wild Things Are

Spike Jonze has spent the last four years of his life working on Where the Wild Things Are, and if the film doesn't make any money those four years of his life will have earned him less than his infancy.



And just this trailer is worth all of that, no reservations.

There are only a handful of singular, subversive cinematic masterpieces that embody everything that cinema is about at the same time as distilling a filmmaker's vision to its purest form. Only a handful of films come to mind. Mulholland Dr. Pan's Labyrinth.

If there is a god, he will let the movie surpass this trailer and take its position with the other great films of our time. This is a brilliant time for cinema and everyone is complaining about it. If you're complaining about it, it's because you've trained yourself to look in all the wrong places.

God save Spike Jonze.

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