Mary and Max | 100 Movies Bucket List

 

Next up for the Bucket List was a highly anticipated rewatch!

I watched this film on a whim a few years ago and absolutely loved it.

I was actually really surprised that it was on the bucket list because it felt like a really underrated film that no one really watched or spoke about.

Everything about this film is beautiful.

For a start, it's visually beautiful. The animation is done so well, so uniquely and so creatively. It's lovely just to watch the characters move around even without the story surrounding it.

But then as mentioned, there's the story itself, which is also really really beautiful. The film follows two characters who become pen-pals and unlikely friends, and the way their relationship grows and is explored throughout the film is just incredible.

We as the audience get to know the characters as they get to know each other, we completely fall in love with them and really get to bond with them.

The writing is also done so well. Everything feels extremely realistic, which is really interesting given the age gap between the characters and everything that they go through separately in their lives. It almost feels like the dialogue was written by characters of these exact ages because of how real it feels.

The first time I watched the film, I remember being so emotionally invested in the story that by the end I was sobbing.

This time around, although I wasn't sobbing, I was just as emotionally invested. I actually think it's impossible to not become invested in these characters when you follow their stories.

If there's any film on the bucket list that I'd recommend to anyone who hasn't seen it, it might be this one. It's understated, underrated, beautiful and is so deserving of the classics label.