“What turns me on about acting is being somebody else,” says Gordon-Levitt, who’ll begin shooting Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, opposite Daniel Day-Lewis, before the end of the year. “My favorite actors are those who really disappear into their characters.” Gary Oldman is, for Gordon-Levitt, one of those actors. “He’s one of my idols,” says Gordon-Levitt of his costar in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming Batman saga, The Dark Knight Rises, in which he plays a beat cop under the command of Oldman’s Commissioner Gordon."

"Mary and Max" will be one of those claymation (clay animation) that has a special place in my heart. I didn't have an idea what this film was about at first. I was attracted to the cover illustration and got more curious when I read about it.

The movie is about an unusual but long-lasting and meaningful friendship. It all started when an 8-year old girl from Australia had an impulse to write to and a man who has Asperger's Syndrome in New York. Despite the age differences and being continents apart, the characters are rather quite similar in more ways than one. The beginning was light, funny and enjoyable, but as the story goes on, it plot evolves and discusses heavy themes including a psychological eye-opener. The animation was wonderfully crafted. The story is sweet, touching, and heartbreaking. I couldn't help but feel a lump in my throat at the end of it. =)