Mary and Max -

[Yawning Squirtle]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0978762/?ref_=sr_3

Has anyone here seen this film? It's a clay animation about pen pals. The reason I'm posting this here is because Max, one of the protagonists, has Aspergers. The movie talks about a lot of the symptoms - such as not recognizing facial features, social awkwardness, etc in a very didactic and refreshing manner. I was re-watching it these days, and yes, it got me thinking about Chris Chan (I had never heard about CWC the first time I watched it). It would be very interesting if Chris could see it. I think he'd identify a lot with it (if only he could grow out of his silly "Aspergers stealing the limelight from autism" shtick).

But the unique thing about this movie - for me, at least - it's the way the director deals with subjects such as mental illness, depression, loneliness, death and suicide; it has a lot of dark humour but at the same time, yeah, it's kinda sweet and redeeming.

Anyway, it's worth a watch. I also noticed that some people in this forum are on the autism/Aspergers spectrum, so maybe you guys could be interested in it, or have seen it before and have something to say about it. I dunno.

 

[JULAY]

in a very didactic and refreshing manner.

OK, with that turn of phrase, I'm in. Who is it exactly you'd like me to do what to?

 

[regularjohn]

As an avid animation fan, of course I've seen it, and, Im not sure about how chris would feel about it, because Max is clearly slow, but still better than chris (he has a job, isnt paranoid of trolls, giant piles of money, etc) So I dont know how chris would react to seeing this clearly mentally handicapped man who is leading a better life than him. It cant be a window to hell if the window is clearly better than yours. But knowing chris...

Spoiler

Though chris should die like max does, that would be perfect and very much something that would happen to him