Spike Jonze and David Eggers, the director and screenwriter of  Where The Wild Things Are (opening today) sat down to have a discussion with Maurice Sendak, the author of the beloved children's book on which their film is based, about the movie and how colorless childhood is for today's youth:

Instead, he and Jonze and Eggers lamented how vanilla childhood in America has become. Worrywart parents aren’t doing their kids any favors by depriving them of their right to get scared out of their minds watching movies or reading books.

Todays youth no longer seems to be youth at all where all adults are whithout age. As young people we have all the resonsiblity and  experince in the world of someone that is thirty years of age. The movie Where The Wild Things Are gives hope that there's a little imaganation and wonder left in the world for those kids that arent forced to grow up. kids today are exposed to so much at such a young age already that childhood is a little to colorful.

 (via Entertainment Weekly)