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  somerled@ wrote:
  If I could give it a higher number, I would. Max is a little boy just hitting the age where his ability to think and reflect are expanding exponentially. He is only just beginning to to see the world as being populated and not simply an extension of his needs and whims. At the best of times, this is a turbulent time in life, with grief, and confusion and frustration. During this time a person has great internal conflicts and no tools or reference point for resolving them. The voyage to monster island, away from the external world of events, to the internal world of feeling and sorting and understanding is so ingeniously portrayed, with each of the monsters being an amalgam of parts of himself, parts of the people in his life and parts of the experiences he is processing. I think some viewers were troubled by the violence and personalities of the monsters, and wondered what they were supposed to be teaching Max. But Max isn't on a hero quest, with helpers who show up on the way. Max is growing. Max is the island, and he is all it's inhabitants. The raw emotions of a troubled child, whose world is in constant flux, are violent and chaotic. This movie is heavy, and not to be mistaken for a fluffy child adventure. It is intense and complex and unresolved, after all, it is a single day in the densely packed experiential world of a child. It's really a must see.
(10/10)
 
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