Wow. The visual images in this film have me wanting to go home and do rooms in woven straw, raffia and small sticks.
I loved the film. From an interiors perspective:
The house that Max lives in is simple. The Mom has obviously gone through a tough divorce, and had a difficult time not losing her spirit along with her life. Max is acting out, tearing up the house and trying to survive his emotional baggage along with the rest of the family. His older sister does not protect him from her friends brutality. His mother is wooing a new lover while he longs to just be home.
He escapes to a new land, by sea, in his homemade toothpick boat. He makes new friends, and brings his status as "king" and problem solver to their world. He soon finds that it is just like his world. Full of the same problems, betrayals, and security of just one love. He longs for his mother and to return to her undenied care for him.
He crosses the sea again, to find that the love is now gone, and his sad mother is there just waiting for her loved son to return.
His adventures are full of rich visuals. His world escapes outside of a 1960's house, with siding, a vacant yard, and lonely world. He builds his own world of ice, or twigs. He learns to survive in it, no matter what everyone else does. Isn't that just about all we can teach our children?
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