Mary and Max

Synopsis:

Mary and Max is a simple tale of pen-friendship between two different people; Mary Dinkle, a chubby lonely eight year old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max Horovitz, a 44-year old, severely obese, Jewish man with Asperger's Syndrome living in the chaos of New York.

Spanning twenty years and two continents, Mary and Max's friendship survives much more than the average diet of life's ups and downs. Mary and Max's story is innocent but not naive, as it takes us on a journey that explores friendship, autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism, where babies come from, obesity, kleptomania, sexual difference, trust, copulating dogs, religious differences, agoraphobia and much much more.

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I thought that claymated films are only for children. Little did I know that it can also use to depict stories of life, especially of friendship.. I didn't take the film seriously at first but as the story goes on, as I listen to the narration of how Mary and Max became acquainted with each other, I got hooked. It even left me into tears.

I admired how two people of different continent, religion, beliefs in life, age and a lot other differences, conspired and shared each other's goals in life. I love what Max's ultimate life goal is: chocolates. These two has their own share of indifferences towards the society: afraid not to be accepted, to be bullied, to be loved even by their own family. In the end, they themselves found the solution on how they can overcome their fears: rejection, anxiety, and that is by loving themselves first. That the journey in life depends on the path you'd like to take.