<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > give me a chocolate burger! </h1>
In the Internet era, not many people still remember the experience of making pen pals, and perhaps those who know how to make pen friends are almost middle-aged uncles and aunts over the age of 45!
Making pen friends is an interesting thing in life, because everyone does not know each other, but they can write letters to each other and spit out their hearts, and the pure and simple friendship of that era came from this way.
Always looking forward to each other's letters, always warming each other in the letters, this kind of in the fast and convenient Network era, it is impossible to appreciate the excitement of receiving letters.
"Mary and Marx", an unforgettable animation with the theme of pen pals, exhausts the impermanence and bitterness of life, which is really touching and tearful.
This semi-autobiographical film adapted from a true story tells the story of an Australian 8-year-old girl Mary, who finds the mail address of the Middle-aged Marx of The United States at an unexpected post office, and since then, two lonely people who have lived lonely lives have interacted with each other in the cross-geography with each other's pen and book, and spit out the loneliness of their inner lives.
This friendship that lasted for more than a decade, encouraging each other and sharing ideas, although there was inevitably a misunderstanding, it was finally understood.
In the bitter life, everyone finally has the most precious and innocent friendship.
First of all, although the pinched characters of this animation are somewhat ugly in appearance, they also have a deep black humor.
The whole film is narrated with narration, and there is also exaggerated humor in pinching people and things, but the main story is full of sadness of life, expressing the warmth of this movie with joy and tears, especially the ending makes the audience cry.
Believe me, people who don't cry should be valuable people who haven't experienced friendship.
✔ Let's start with the two main characters.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" >1</h1>
Mary was supposed to have been born unexpectedly by her parents, and her mother lied to her that she had been found in a pile of wine bottles, much like our parents used to joke to us when we were children that we were found in garbage.
Mary had a bad birthmark on her head, and her mother was an alcoholic and often went to the market to "borrow" things, lying to her to save paper bags.
Dad loved to hide in the hut after work, accompanying him to the dead birds.
Little Mary's was ignored by her parents, her classmates bullied her, and her teachers looked down on her.
Mary, who is full of inferiority and can only rely on snacks, grows up in overcoming various difficulties because of her friendship with Marx.
Marx was a noble man in her life, but Marx, who was born with Asperger's syndrome, made her aspire to become a spiritual scientist.
When she grew up, she also wrote a spiritual research book for Marx, but it aroused the other party's incomprehension, and eventually Mary chose to destroy the book and live a depressed life, and her husband, the Greek boy next door, later chose to fall in love with another man and left her.
In the end, what kind of life she will face, please go to the movie to find the answer.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="28" >2</h1>
Marx, who lives in the United States, is a middle-aged Jewish uncle, because of social phobia, but also because his parents died when he was bullied, he has become autistic and overeating, and loves chocolate the most.
When he met Mary, this desire to make friends, one of the three major events of his life, came true.
During this period, because of Mary's letter and questions, which triggered his anxiety disorder, he broke the letter for 8 months, but in the end it was the understanding of true friendship, and they hoped to see the only true friend in life one day.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="32" > there are several scenes that are particularly touching. </h1>
There is a scene where Marx, who cannot express his emotions, because he does not understand what crying and laughing are, Mary especially collects her tears in a bottle and mails them to Marx to let him feel what tears are.
Also, both of them were particularly fond of the anime "The Noblites", and Marx mailed all of Arnold's dolls to her in order to get Mary's forgiveness.
Marx told Mary that her birthmark was a piece of chocolate that would bring her happiness.
Marx also put Mary's letters in the collection with a hot pot, and when Mary finally saw it, she burst into tears.
The whole movie is laughing and tears, especially people with social barriers and autism like this, they will be particularly touched when they watch it.
The preciousness of friendship lies in innocence, perhaps we in that era, is so sincere and simple, there is no modern fast food feelings, friendship is particularly precious to us.
The two souls meet and intertwine in fate, it is not the happiness of life, although our life is so clumsy, even in the image of loser in the social survival, but the truth nourishes our limited life.
The ending is sad, but it is also beautiful.