Among my favorite douban movies, the highest score is Mary and Max. When I watched this movie, my friends were crying, but I felt very calm, just like the feeling that I had a lot to say but chose silence at the end.

The protagonist Mary is a chubby little girl who lives in Melbourne. She is lonely and has no friends. Max is a Jew living in America. He is obese and autistic. He is as lonely as Mary. One day, Mary tore a corner from the phone book of the post office and wrote a letter to Max who lives in new york, and attached a cherry chocolate bar that he liked very much. So these two people became pen pals for 20 years …

The film expresses many heavy topics with naive clay animation:

Suicide, alcoholism, death, sex and mental illness seem to reveal some strange black humor everywhere, but they also make people feel the warmth of human nature and simple communication.

As a good film review I read said:

Dear stranger, can I exchange a bottle of tears for a chocolate hot dog with you?