No it does make sense. It was a kids book, and it was one of my favorites, but they movie dealt with some really mature subject matter.
Newsweek put it the best though, and I stopped thinking of it as a depressing childrens movie, and more of an actual, intelligent film.
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The standard line now is that by letting Jonze make Wild Things largely his way—as a movie "about childhood" rather than "for children"—the studio has abandoned (or frightened off) the audience that Sendak's story was originally supposed to reach: actual kids.
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Why 'Wild Things' Isn't Too Scary for Kids - Newsweek