Mary and Marx is a clay animation that took 5 years to produce, and the tones of the film are gray and brown, but overall give a gloomy feeling.
The 44-year-old Marx, suffering from obesity and Asperger's disease, feels that the world is extremely confused and chaotic, unable to understand the expressions on other people's faces, overly sensitive and easy to be afraid, but he is difficult to express his emotions, desperate to have the same emotions as normal people.
His only friends were his own fantasies, and like Mary, he was lonely, but he was also innocent, and his favorite cartoon was "Noblitt", and he was very capable of having a friend, even if it was a toy rubber. In the process of exchanging sex with Mary, his heart is very complicated. After several struggles, he finally opened up to his only friend that true self had no concealment
But in the play, some of Mary's actions hurt Marx, and Mary published some of Marx's things. Marx felt betrayed. Later, Mary also realized her mistake and apologized like Marx. In the end, Marx still chose to forgive him, in which he said: Everyone's life is like a long sidewalk, some roads are flat and flat, and some are like I will have cracks, banana peels or cigarette butts. Maybe your sidewalk is like mine, a little cracked but not as much as mine, I hope that one day we can intersect on the sidewalk and we share a bottle of condensed milk. Eventually, Mary was given a new lease of life and ushered in her own life.
There are many questions in the film that deserve our exploration. The most profound is friendship. If there is a way to interpret friendship, I think it is probably Mary and Marx, which crosses the distance of time and space, regardless of age and gender, and makes the monotonous gray world have color.