When Cao Yang recommended this cartoon to me, I didn't take it seriously at all. I didn't take many things seriously. Except for what I thought was important, many people commented on me as "too subjective". I don't deny it. And I don't think it's bad.
But now I'm thinking, if I keep living according to my ideas, where will my world extend, stay on an island forever like Max, with only coconuts with him? Good thing he has Marry.
The first thing I thought about was myself. In these two little people made of plasticine, I can see almost all of myself: rage, anxiety, profound inferiority, harshness and criticality towards the secular world, infinite pampering of myself, inability to discern others Emotional, ugly, weak...the people in this animated world seem to exist in another dimension projected by our real world, I have hardly watched cartoons since I was ten years old, I thought That doesn't belong to the complicated adult world. The problem is that I didn't understand until now that the seemingly wonderful but hypocritical adult world is full of too much boring, helpless, helpless, and indifferent.
I don't want to interpret this cartoon as a beautiful story of two mental disorders healed through mutual integration. In fact, it is not. What surprises me is the ending. The happy but regrettable ending is often beyond the reach of many famous writers. Perfectly sheathed.
Marry, an ugly girl far away in Australia, was confused whether the child was born from a beer bottle or a coke can, so she wrote a letter and sent it to a neurotic Max in New York, saying that he It's not exactly neurotic, it's just social disorder, anxiety, and bulimia, but it's bad enough, if you can't recognize the expressions on other people's faces, anything ordinary that looks to other people makes you angry To the point of being irrepressible, unable to stop the damn thing reaching for the food.... all of this will make your life very difficult, max is like that.
But their friendship across ages and geographies is built like this, marry will talk to max about her confusion, she was bullied at school, the ugly birthmark on her head...max will help her come up with some solutions Opinions, and tell their own magical stories, you know, a neurotic will always have many magical stories.
If the story is like this, then it is really just an ordinary cartoon. Based on my trust in Cao Yang, I will watch it patiently. So I said I have to learn to listen to other people's advice.
marry grows up, max becomes fatter, but their communication continues, what kind of long-lasting friendship is that, I firmly believe that this is a relationship that only exists in cartoons, the love between people in the real world Too short and superficial. As marry continues to grow, she aspires to become a scholar who studies human mental illness. She wrote a book about the story between herself and max, which angered the sensitive and anxious old man max, who felt that it was a betrayal of this It's a deception, he never thought that he could be put on the anatomical bed as a guinea pig for people to look up to, and he broke off with marry.
Then marry had a long period of self-denial and depression, and I started crying when I saw this, because I'm all too familiar with this situation: self-loathing, breaking with the outside world, wanting to be recognized but afraid to touch anyone who can Provide people and things I admit, overeating, watching people who care about me keep leaving, sad, but still indifferent, want to die, and keep putting it into practice...
Of course I know this is a cartoon, how? Will let poor marry die, the plot must send a letter to max forgive her here. I know it's cliché, isn't it, but I'm still relieved to see this, the reality is so cruel, let's relax in the virtual world.
Did I say that the ending is very good, and if you want to know what the ending is, why don't you go and have a look.
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