The Movie Mary And Max, Portrays A Dark And Gloomy World

The movie Mary and Max, portrays a dark and gloomy world of a eight-year old Mary Daisy Dinkle from Australia and fortyfive-year old Max Jerry Horowitz from New York City. Mary, as a result of her lonely life without friends, decides to pick a random person from a ‘brown’ book filled with names and addresses in the United States and writes him a letter. However, does the person on the other side of the globe longs for a letter from an eight-year old girl? Max Horowitz lives a lonely world in the city that never sleeps, New York City. However, the director, Adam Elliot, portrays the city from a totally different perspective. In the beginning of the movie, when there is a shot on the sign of Welcome to New York, it is followed by 3 gunshots†¦show more content†¦Even though, Mary becomes Max’s friend, she causes him many anxiety attacks, as she confronts him with her human behaviour, incomprehensible for Max. Hence, Mary’s need for a friend disrupts a nd intrudes Max’s logical and honest life without emotions and need for people. Max shares with the viewers, that his number one goal is to have a friend, however, this goal was only recommended by his psychiatrist, Bernard Hazelhoff. Therefore, if Max did not visit psychiatrist, who tries to explain to him how to live a ‘normal’ life, on a regular basis, he might not need any friends at all. Additionally, he does not even look for love, and there is no sexual drive in his mind, since he detest when a lady from his Overeaters Anonymous support group tries to flirt with him. Lastly, Max also does not like living in a crowded and loud city like New York, and dreams about living on a silent Moon by himself, without anyone else. However, Mary, a very lonely and young girl, actually needs a real friend. Even though, she shares her incomprehension of the world and her abusive childhood with Max, her personality is not powerful enough to deal with these terrible circumstances. Nonetheless, the fact, that she shares these negative elements of her life with a person like Max, just benefits her, since Max has a good heart and tries his best to help her with her problems. Still, if Mary have contacted any other person, the person might help her more