Title: Mary and Max
Genre: Animation
Director/Screenwriter: Adam Elliot Special
release date: April 9 (Australia)
Reader: Bai
Xiaoding Recommended index: ★★★★★★ One
sentence comment: I love this movie, I watched it more than once, once about friendship, self and self-analysis The spiritual journey, the long-lost touch and sincerity.
Mary and Max met by accident, a country far away in Australia, bright, quiet and warm; a New York metropolis in the United States, dark, noisy and indifferent. One day, Mary wrote a letter to Marx on a whim, and the two began their 18-year relationship.
This is a spiritual journey of friendship, self and self-dissection. 8-year-old Mary is full of expectations for the world. She doesn't like birthmarks on her forehead, she is eager to meet love, and she wants to try everything. She has so many reasons why she needs to be answered. Her world is colorful; He is mildly autistic, living in his own world, living a regular life like clockwork every day, sticking to principles and still self-righteous, he is too lazy to think about why, because he has forgotten what to pay attention to, and his days are always black and white.
It is said in the movie that everyone is an island. In fact, life is to some extent learning and adapting to survive in an island. Mary's father relied on his favorite bird taxidermy, Mary's mother relied on sherry and cigarettes, Marx fantasized about Mr. Ravioli as a friend, all kinds of self-evasion and self-paralysis, this is how we learn to adapt.
The film does not shy away from death, disease, and aging. Just like in the movie, everyone has cracks in life, and everyone has cigarette butts, garbage, and banana peels on their roads. It's hard to say whether those flaws come from the essence of life, or we The lack of oneself is a kind of disease. When we want to forget it, it hurts. And such a sense of loneliness or frustration will always accompany us in our lives. Is there no other way than to endure the island?
Mary is eager to understand that Marx chose to be closed, two incomplete people, but he used letters to confide his true views on society, love, and friendship, and kept revealing his preferences and experiences to each other. Through self-dissection and self-dissection, they obtained the reconstruction of self from each other, and gained the opportunity to experience another kind of life. The isolated island of two people thus built a bridge to their hearts. Candor and sincerity make their friendship more rare than love and more considerate than family, so even if there is alienation, they can get back together. Both names have "M" in them, people with very different personalities, although they have never met, they are so sympathetic to each other. Their lives are so different but harmoniously intertwined.
The plot of this animation is as simple as letter paper, but full of content. The film is full of unexpected touching, humor and plots that make us think with our hearts. We all used to be innocent and curious like Mary, but we have all wrapped ourselves up like Marx. There are too many things that are difficult to communicate and understand in the adult world. This friendship spanning age and space is actually ironic. In the material world, especially in the city, indifference and vigilance between people.
The director chose clay animation, a form of animation that is declining relative to 3D animation, and the communication method used - letters, has also become more and more scarce under the impact of the Internet and mobile phones. Flooding, after thinking about the words written on the letterhead can better reflect a person's true self, the superficial closeness cannot hide the distance between the hearts, the speed of communication does not mean that the communication crosses the boundary, such contrasting emotions are in Movies abound, and it can be seen that the original intention of the director's creation is to arouse the audience's cherishment of these beautiful things that have died. Therefore, the stories of the two of them move us so much.
Mary still didn't see Max in the end, which is a bit regrettable but not missing, because they have radiated and warmed each other for many years. The neatly ironed letters on the ceiling, and the printer that records everything silently, are the most beautiful testimony of the friendship between the two.
If "Flying Around the House" is a warm adult fairy tale, then "Mary and Marx" is the scalpel that analyzes our hearts. Although it does not show any sound, it hurts every time it is pulled down, and it is digging from the subtleties of life. Thinking about the nature of life makes people face their true self.
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