Mary and Max It is 1976, an 8-year-old Mary Daisy Dinkle (Bethany Whitmore) is a lonely little girl living in Mount Waverley, Melbourne, Australia. Her relatively poor family cannot afford to buy her toys or nice clothing, and she is teased by children at her school due to an unfortunate birthmark on her forehead. Her father is distant and her alcoholic, kleptomaniac mother provides no support. The closest thing she has to a friend is the man for whom Mary collects mail, Len Hislop, a World War II veteran who lost his legs as a prisoner of war and has developed agoraphobia.
One day, she decides to write a letter to someone living in New York City: by pure chance she chooses Max Jerry Horowitz (Philip Seymour Hoffman) from a telephone
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Seeing how much Max valued their friendship and how happy it made him, Mary is moved to tears of joy as the film closes.
The film is sublime. It’s funny and insightful as it creates very different worlds for its two characters, and yet it doesn’t shy away from the harsher aspects of the lives of Mary and Max.
BARRY HUMPHRIES narrates and he does it beautifully. The animation perfectly suits the story, it was five years in the making and it’s worth every minute.
Comment: I found this film very tough going- it is undoubtedly a well made film and has some clever and quirky moments. However I lost interest around halfway through the film and could not engage with the film and its clunky style. A lighter touch would have made a huge difference to the viewing experience. Perhaps as an artistic statement it deserves more than three stars but as a movie going experience it was only a little bit better than average.
The clay only gave the story more credibility, others might differ in their opinion about that, but I think if it were played by real actors it would be less believable, (saying the tale itself was based on a true story).
Love this movie. I cried a much needed cry that I wasn't able to do for
My final rating of the movie is three out of five stars because the sound effects were pretty good. The camera movements were good. The fight scenes were realistic and the characters didn’t fit their description but played their part
This is a great film, for the family, or even a very nice date night with that very special someone.
Overall I found the movie to be quite interesting and exciting at times but a bit slow in others. The story itself was very clear to me and didn’t cause any confusion. It had a good flow also, just as you were on the verge of falling into boredom with a scene they switched it up on you to keep you
Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy do a fantastic job in this immensely subtle film, in which hardly any of the most important information is carried in the dialogue and in which body language, tone of voice or the look in an eye can be the most important thing in a scene. After being surrounded by many movies in which shallow and violent individuals deny their humanity, watching this film has changed my
This is a brilliant film in every way possible. The directing, the acting, the screenplay, the sound, everything is of very high quality. The acting is superb and several of the actors
I have watched the movie before, and I thought it was a good movie. It’s sad and happy. It is about a little boy, who has a medical facial deformity called mandibulofacial
I cried my eyes out. I could not stop crying, and I had not anticipated for Noora, my saving grace, to give me the lollipop she had just received from her dad and hugged me until the tears stopped.
I think that Mary was portrayed as a 15 year old feminist in order to provide a stark contrast between her and Holmes and assert the author's opinion about the future for women. Mary is essentially a representation of everything that women were not supposed to be at the time. She is intelligent and isn't afraid to assert her opinions to anyone including men. Therefore, Mary's feminist attitudes make her appear to be someone ahead of her time, which makes her apprenticeship with Holmes more surprising at the time. She even says, "On the face of things it would have been extremely unlikely for a proper gentleman such as Holmes to take on a young woman as pupil much less apprentice her to his arcane trade" (King 34).
We would highly recommend this movie to others as it was very educational, but also very enjoyable at the same time. We all had a good experience and learned a lot about women’s rights issues of the past that many women can still
Overall, the movie was not as bad as I thought it would be. The best part about the movie is the images in the scenes. Each frame of the movie is like a picture of religious art that is extremely religious, perfect, even I personally feel like these scenes are full of emotions directed by the director. The movie uses confessions, questions, and concerns of the characters in the movie and they whisper to God whenever they are lost, happy, and sad in life. However, these lines are sometimes unreasonable, somewhat overwhelming to the image, which does not really serve the purpose of the film. And it makes me feel that the movie is the mind of the director himself rather than the character, because these narratives really do not make me care what the voice is saying, but only the content of the words. Although the movie serves its philosophy lesson, but it was too long to the point it was overwhelming. Furthermore, the scene of the Creation sequence made me thought that I was watching science/ religion movie. Ultimately, with the dazzling image of the film as well as the perfect cast, this is really a worthwhile movie to watch and
After reading the above case study, there are four distinct issues that contribute to the overall case. First, there is an issue with an anonymous individual in the company, essentially whistleblowing internally to inform John, the chief executive officer (CEO) of performance issues with a new product. Therefore, this is an issue, since the anonymous employee chose to bypass the appreciate communication channels being Joe and Mary, the new district manager and division manager, respectively to communicate the matter higher up on the corporate chain. Secondly, there is the issue with Mary misleading John about the performance of a new product thus far in the product’s life cycle. Thirdly, in light of the anonymous employee informing the CEO, the is issue lies with Mary asking Joe to further mislead John about the product’s performance, while providing inaccurate documentation as proof to instill confidence in John that the product is performing well. Lastly, overall situation presents a conflict of interest for Joe, as Mary is extorting him by threatening his
Final thoughts, it's good, though flawed. I would have liked to see a pair of actors with more chemistry in the romance department. But when things start getting rough, Rose Leslie and Harry Treadaway step up their game to deliver engrossing performances. Leigh Janiak does some impressive work for a first time director, most notable when it comes to pacing and the use of light and dark during the final act of film. But would I recommend it? Yes, but be prepared for a slow start.
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Overall, this film is amazing it and it’s worth watching because of its plot and how it’s directed to give you a sense of
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