In the world of animated movies, the rarest style of animating is stop motion. The process in itself takes a very long time and requires lots of patience. Therefore, few studios build themselves on it and the few who do see difficulty finding an audience. However, with this lack of quantity comes an abundance of quality from the stop motion films that manage to be released. The newest of such releases is ‘Memoir of a Snail’ (2024) directed by longtime Australian animator Adam Elliot, the film is a biographical account of the early life of a shy snail obsessed misfit as she navigates life, forms and breaks relationships, and comes to make sense of a world full of both pain and beauty. In a non typical fashion for animated movies, ‘Memoir of a Snail’ deals with mature themes and struggles relating to loss, heartbreak, addiction, and finding a place in the world free of past traumas.