The highest realm of spiritual friendship——【Mary and Marx】

Rogelio 2022-01-26 08:18:16

It's a live-action clay animation, a bit of Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, not just because it's a clay stop-motion animation, but because they're all about the same gloom. [Mary and Marx] is full of suicide, alcoholism, death, sexuality and mental illness, a pen pal story spanning 20 years between an eight-year-old Australian girl, Mary, and a 44-year-old Jewish Marx in New York City. At the end of the movie, the pen pals finally meet, but Max is dead in his apartment. They gave each other the strength to live in their letters, and they may not be so alone in reality.

The film is grotesque and insane, with the dark humor of the moment. In Mary's eyes, her world was boring, cookie-cutter, and lacking in love. The little boy who has a crush on her will only make fun of her. According to the little girl's point of view at the beginning of "He doesn't like you that much", it is estimated that the boy likes the girl, which is often the case in reality. Mary named her pet chicken, liked the Nobbs cartoons, liked gray rainy days, and her favorite food was condensed milk, followed by chocolate. This is Mary, a little autistic, a particularly lonely child. Even thinking about where the children came from, her theory is that the Australian Baby comes out of the bottom of the beer glass, and Americans love to drink Coke, so the American children come out of the bottle of Coca-Cola.

Marx is autistic, neurotic, schizophrenic with an imaginary friend, and obese. But my favorite food is chocolate, and I can invent chocolate sandwiches myself. Marx never loved anyone, never had sex, and had no friends. His three goals in life are to make friends, to have money, and to buy the world's endless chocolate. When he kept a lottery for nine years, he won the lottery, and he fulfilled the last two wishes, but making friends is always an obstacle for him. Mary's childhood was to a large extent a copy of Marx's. When replying to Mary's letter, Marx had to face up to his own past and childhood.

This movie scares modern people. Look around us, and so many young people have become autistic and become otaku, and so many young people are suffering from hesitation. It even made me see myself in a way. I used to be afraid of meeting strangers, for example: I am the landlord, and I want to call the tenant to urge the tenant to pay the rent. I picked up the phone and began to hesitate whether I should call. After hesitating, I still dialed, but I hope that the other party will not answer. , or not at home. Although hesitancy is much milder than depression, it is still a disease.

The story of [Mary and Marx] existed in the 1970s, and even more so today. When technology and the Internet become more developed, in principle, the world is smaller, and people's hearts become lonelier. Modern people are used to talking about politics, games, stocks, funds, sincerity and even movies and music, but fewer people talk about friendship. We are used to communicating on the Internet, and as a result, QQ, MSN, Facebook, and Myspace have become the global communication center for gun friends!

This is a rich animation, it explores the origin of human beings. This Australian-produced movie, although the character modeling is not as beautiful as Hollywood's, even makes you think that the tree of the cross is similar to Marx's, but at least it is very cute. : Long nose and face. In its humorous and neurotic narration, the film brings modern people an urge to trace its origins.

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Mary and Max quotes

  • Max Jerry Horovitz: Butts are bad because they wash out to sea, and fish smoke them and become nicotine-dependent. I am just joking, because of course it is impossible for a cigarette to remain lit underwater. Also, fish do not have pockets to keep cigarette lighters in.

  • Max Jerry Horovitz: [to Mary] Have you ever been a communist? Have you ever been attacked by a crow or similar large bird?