Memoir of a Snail review

Adam Elliot knocks it out of the park again with this masterpiece. The movie is about a woman, Grace Pudel, reccounting her life’s history to her pet snail Sylvia, hence the title. It’s a bittersweet story that kind of overlaps with my experience as an autistic child, so it ressonates particularly deep with me, and follows Mary And Max’s standards of representation of neurodivergent people in media.

Also her brother is a pyromaniac, Awesome.

The animation is stop motion of course. It has a palette slightly more colourful than Mary and Max but still dull enough to warrant a sense of “antiquity”, since flashbacks take place in the 50’s. The character designs are a lovely mixture of cute and gross, and there’s well animated bodily fluids to go around.

A fantastic recommendation.