Mary and Max is one of the best movies I have watched in a long time. It is an Australian claymation directed and written by Adam Elliot and voiced by some famous Australians including Toni Collette and Eric Bana.
The story is about a random, most unlikely friendship between an ugly ducking of a little Australian girl and an overweight 44 year old man in America that blossomed and grew across the seas and spanned nearly two decades. What could they have in common? Very little except that both of them were lonely and life had dealt them a deck of unfavourable cards. With that, their unlikely friendship stumbled along their lives, survived through the death of parents, admittance to mental institution, diagnosis of Aspergers Syndrome, marriage, divorce, graduation from University, etc.
A most poignant moment was when Max wrote to Mary in one of his letters after the latter had particularly hurt him, ‘You are my best friend. You are my only friend. Friends are imperfect, you are imperfect. Therefore I choose to forgive you.’
In the end of the movie, Mary traveled to America to meet Max but the path the friends were meant to travel on was destined to never meet. He passed away peacefully in the morning she arrived.
It is the movie that made me sob my heart out for ½ hour AFTER it had ended. Thinking about it now makes me all teary. I think this movie touches on the fundamentals of life – friends are integral to everyone’s lives, and friends make mistakes no matter how close they are, they may hurt you but when they do, good friends choose to forgive.
My friends, forgive me when I have hurt you as I am usually clumsy with my words and actions. I do not mean to. I hope you choose to forgive and remain friends for life.
1 comment:
Hey gal, no matter what you had done, good or bad, you still have a friend in me. :D
Friends forever!
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