Summary
The authors believe that the world is built of roles. But we need to be able to analyze roles, to reject some old, to add some new. A sort of a rebellion on the knees.
Unfortunately, there is no good solution for this problem. We have too few degrees of freedom. Mom is tied to the office, girl is tied to the school, the pilot is tied to the bed in hospital (We could hope he will not die soon).
Mary and Max, 2009
Synopsis
In Australia, in a small town on the banks of an ocean, lives a family: little Mary, her father and mother. Unfortunately, they do not communicate with each other and everyone lives in ones own little world.
Mary goes to school, but in school life is not much better. Accidentally, being with her mother in the post office, Mary discovers a directory that lists addresses different people living in the USA. A piece of random page of this book happened to be jammed in her hand.
The deficit of meaningful communication Marie feels like a personal problem, thats why she decides to write a letter to a stranger, whose address was in her hand.
The stranger happens to be an old fat man with Aspergers syndrome. Correspondence starts. After that go and see it by yourself.
Levels
Max has 1 (gluttony) and 2 (cyclic time), and 6 and 7 (he has logics, he reads serious scientific books and shows non-trivial wit).
Mary has 3456 (scientific mind, but without creativity and paradoxes). Parents have 1245 (and have no signs of 3, 6, 7 and 8). Her husband has 2345.
They could cooperate, but Mary wants more. She is attracted to Max because of his 67 levels (for her 56 this is a pleasure). But she has no 8, to anticipate Maxs reaction to her book.
The breach with Max is her tragedy. And for Max this is a tragedy too, because now he has no place for his 67 too.
In the university Marys 6 makes very good impression. But none of the others can not communicate with Mary meaningfully, including Damien. Probably because Mary is melancholic + sanguine, melancholic dominates. Max is phlegmatic, he can wait.
The conflict becomes a tragedy when Mary tells Max that she has published a book in which he described Max as a special psychological type. Max falls into despair, horror, and stops to reply.
The book publishing is a 34-event. Max must reply at 45, but he cannot act at these levels. He falls into panic (first level). From this trauma, he will never resurrect.