Oh my precious......

Rating: 10/10 (1 December 2009)

Mary and Max features two different pen-pals suffered different dysfunctions from different continents some 30 years ago, but if the idea already made you yarn, let's be honest, you should see a doctor.
Just after the first viewing, I have already updated my top 5 animation movies with Mary And Max among them. The reason, it's a perfect illustration of the thousands of layers of life, keeping a high profile of those imperfections by symbolizing them but allowing the love among humans to flow to the last, warming the audiences indifferently. (Well, as long as you don't bash a film because of some improper contents for children.) Don't be freaked out by the weird art design. Actually, those sensitive ones should have already felt the underlying irony in those sad, agonized faces filling out the movie. From the carves on a mailbox to every adult alike in Mary and Max's world, "beauty" is but a word describing extinction. Mary's face, figure and everything alike had a deep feeling of asymmetric and depression while Max lives in a tottered balance so fragile but also so ironic, portraying a sick man in a sick world. Through their different but same pains they knew each other. And the whole experience is such an unbelievable flow of black comedy that blew Fight Club and Little Miss Sunshine away.
I have to be honest, that this movie is not intended for kids and really shouldn't be promoted to anyone under 15. Yes, there are controversial contents. And if again you hated it purely because of that, I have to express my sympathy for you as you are exactly like Max or any other paranoid people. (Poor Max......) Finally, I would wish Up and this movie to contend Oscar in different years since I loved both of them. But for this year I have to express my reverence to Mary and Max, a multi-layered, honest, inspiring, hilarious, light-hearted dark comedy.
10/10. Just give it an Oscar...please.