Where The Wild Things Are
Not Being American I was not aware of this book - until the movie came out. When I saw it, it put me into a lot of thinking; at the beginning I was highly confused but eventually I think I have figured out its meaning -- at least for me.
We all hide hatred in ourselves but in the society we live we are forced to suppress it; however, there comes a time when this hatred that has accumulated for years will burst and then chaos...
This movie has made me think a lot. We all have this magical place, whether we are old or young, and every now and then we escape there. What happens? Do we have a conversation with our inner self, our consciousness? I don't know. We all escape there and we find peace, or Inferno. This place is our way of revealing our true selves and then come back to our world and still show our moulded self, the one we are supposed to be. Why do we hide so well? Because we are afraid, or because it is considered unacceptable. People are social beings and only few of us can stand criticism and say " Well, I really don't care what you think", the rest go with the social etiquette; we fail to be us and in the process we lose ourselves and that is another reason why we are the greatest deceivers of ourselves.
There comes a point though when our imprisoned self hits itself so hardly on the bars that we have no choice than to let him/her out and when he/she does come out he/she will not be kind, it will seek revenge. Society, which let's not forget consists of people--us, has forced us to hide our true selves and we become slaves and eventually beings of ressentiment (as Nietzsche would say). I am not rooting for riot against the society, no! I am rooting for acceptance. You need to accept who you are, feel good about yourself, love yourself and look out to improve yourself.
Only then will the horror, the fire, end in you.
"Inside all of us there is a wild thing"
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