Mary and Max (2009)
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.
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Such a frustrating disappointment
Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%
A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.
I watched the film " Mary and Max " ,beautiful Australian animation by Adam Elliot, based on a true story. It is about the friendship between a lonely girl in Australia and a lonely man in America. Through many years of friendship that held, writing letters to each other, resolve their psychological problems and situations ,that life bring to them . In the film, I saw a book that I read "I'm OK, you are OK" .Through the film runs a beautiful music , famous songs like Zorba's Dance and Que sera, sera.
Years ago I had a chance to watch a dubbed version in Persian language. It was so touching that I watched it again the very same night.Later I watched English version too, it was great, but I liked the Persian dubbed version more. The dubbed version was so sad, probably the saddest movie I have ever seen.
It would be cute if it wasn't morbid... The beginning is very promising and just when I thought it would become one of my favorites it starts to slip into ruin. Ideas and essence of this movie are great, but author simply does not know when to stop. There's a bunch of beautiful and witty scenes, destroyed by overdoing until they end up distasteful. I'm disappointed and sad to see such inspirational idea and quality realization messed up and spoiled with some completely unnecessary moments.6/10
Mary is an 8 year old kid who lives in Australia and has no friends. Max is a 44 year man who lives in New York and has no friends. Their liven get entangled when Mary writes a letter (after selecting a random address from a directory.) to Max asking him if babies are found in cola cans in America. The rest of the story spans twenty years, during which time Max is institutionalized, is arrested for man slaughter and wins the lottery. Mary undergoes cosmetic surgery, her father and mother dies, she gets married and has a baby. Max has Aspergers syndrome. Mary becomes a psychiatrist. She writes a book about Asperger's syndrome. Max is the test subject. He takes this news poorly. Mary goes into depression. Max forgives her.