This is a movie about friendship. Happened in the 1970s.
Mary is an eight-year-old girl in Australia. Her parents are still alive, but they have strange personalities. One of them drinks heavily all day, and the other stays in the warehouse all the year round and plays with dead birds (specimen). Mary doesn't have many friends because of her looks. And such parents also make her confused about the world. Family members often tell white lies about her problems. For example, where do children come from. Her grandfather told her that the child came from a beer glass, and that Dad saw the child after drinking the beer.
One day, she saw two dogs preparing to have sex. She was very envious. She said, she really envied that the puppy could have friends to play Arhat. You can see how lonely she is.
Because of the confusion about where the children came from, she thought of writing to the Americans, and wanted to ask where the American children came from, did they come from a Coke can?
In the thick book and densely packed addresses, Marx was accidentally picked.
Marx should be considered an orphan. At the age of three, their father abandoned their mother and son, and at the age of six, their mother committed suicide.
He has snails, parrots, goldfish and cats, and an invisible friend. In fact, it was his own imaginary friend.
He's autistic, has no friends, doesn't like noisy New York, he just wants to be in a quiet place, he wants to live on the moon.
By the way, Max is 44 years old. An eight-year-old Australian girl and a 44-year-old American uncle are very far apart in terms of location and age.
But what they have in common is that they like the same cartoon and have no friends.
In my opinion, Marx has a very childish heart in his 44-year-old body. I think that's the most important reason for him to be friends with Mary.
He didn't think Mary's statement that children came from beer glasses was naive and ignorant. He replied that in the United States, children did not come from Coke cans. If they were Jews, they hatched from eggs laid by Jewish priests. If they were not Jews, From the eggs hatched by Catholic nuns.
And the letter mentioned that although he worked in a condom factory, he never used a condom. If I understand correctly, he is still a virgin.
Marx was a strange and very simple man.
He panicked at first when he received Mary's letter, staring out the window for 18 hours before he decided to reply.
Remembering this passage in particular, he decided to be friends with Mary, and began to write back, typing on cheerful notes.
For Marx, it was a big decision that took 18 hours of thinking. Although he has always longed for a true friend, not everyone can make him accept it.
So when he made that decision, a window opened in his atrium, a beam of light came in, and there was color and music.
They were pen pals for 20 years.
When Mary grew up and went to college, she knew that Marx was actually mentally ill, so she wanted to study a cure, and wrote a book based on Marx.
The work was so popular that Mary wrote to Marx to send the book, wanting to share the good news, and that she would split the copyright in half with Marx.
Sounds like good news, but it completely irritated Marx.
He played out his mood angrily: pain, confusion, distress, anxiety, betrayal, breathlessness...
He opened his heart to Mary, and his unreserved inner world was revealed to the world by Mary.
He crumpled up the finished letter and threw it into the trash can.
He was trembling in pain and sweating profusely, and the keyboard began to shake vaguely.
With a roar, he ripped off a key on the keyboard and sent it to Mary.
Mary lit up his heart, but brought thousands of people to visit without permission. This is fatal to Marx.
Mary was carrying her luggage and was about to go out to New York to find Max to celebrate. She saw a letter from Max in the mailbox at the door. There were no words, only M Jian on the keyboard.
M is Mary and Max. Marx even deducted M, showing his anger.
Mary knew instantly that she had done something wrong. Max would not write to her again.
She wrote im sorry on her favorite can of condensed milk and sent it to Max.
Max did not reply, she knew that Max would not forgive her.
Since then, Mary has become a walking dead who relies on alcohol to paralyze herself like her mother in self-blame and self-loathing.
Marx hates people littering cigarette butts.
Because of Mary's injury, he couldn't bear to throw cigarette butts anywhere. In a fit of rage, he grabbed the neck of the homeless man who had thrown the cigarette butt with both hands and made an angry sound, feeling that he would strangle the homeless man to death. The homeless shouted im sorry in horror!
Max was stunned.
im sorry. That's how Mary apologized to him.
No one is perfect, some people's shortcoming is littering cigarette butts. If he can forgive the apologetic tramp, why can't he forgive Mary?
He decided to forgive Mary. He sent Mary all of his animation collection, saying it was to show his forgiveness.
Seeing this brought tears to my eyes.
Maybe it was thinking of the unforgivable self.
Mary and Marx reunited.
At the end of the film, Mary finally goes to New York to find Max.
When she pushed open the unanswered door, she saw Marx sitting in a chair who had just died in the morning.
Looking at everything familiar in the room, she took Max's hand.
She raised her head like Max, a wall full of letters neatly stuck to the ceiling.
Every letter Marx ironed.
Empty house, walls full of letters.
In her mind was the sentence Marx said: you are my best friend, your are my only friend.
For Marx, Mary is his only friend, and for Mary, why is Marx not the only one...
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