I remembered how I protected my little brother and how I never left him home alone because I did not want him to be lonely. I now have a son who is sensitive, creative, and a loner in some way like max. He cried several times feeling sadness, loneliness and also joy of coming back together as Max returns home. My husband also expressed deeply stirred emotion growing up in a broken home experiencing many moments of loneliness or lack of secure figures in life or longing for a fatherly protector for his world. He expressed the world with the wild things like a world without the spiritual guidance or true belief system to keep order. All of us came out with teary eyes feeling something within our hearts that we identify with someone in the film. I wished that I saw the movies when I was younger struggling in my family.