What Maisie Knew

  

 MOVIE NIGHT for a  night-in with your boyfriend! So far one of the most emotional and heartbreaking movies I have watched. From the director Scott Mc Gee & David Siegel´s.
Starring little Onata Aprile as Maisie, my favorite Alexander Skarsgard as Lincoln (seen in True Blood),Julianne Moore as Susanna (popular in cinema at the moment), Joanna Vanderham as Margo and Steve Coogan as Beale.

 Drama movie with harsh topic: parent divorce and  the battle for the custody. It is a movie which will rip everyones heart,for people of all walks of life and for all types of personalities. So get your cosy blanket, a nice person to have around you and press play....

This is Maisie:

I can´t believe a  girl so young can  play such a strong act like this. It's completely over the top and her gestures are overwhelming.
It envolves the childhood of a little girl upon the neverending arguments, insults and fake destroying relationship of her parents. How a girl comes back from school, with her tiny owl back-pack and has to deal with no attention, shouting, at a so unfair age that it should be a crime. An age were a kid has no possibility of understanding and can only blame herself.
Central argument sets the day when both parents can´t cope with each other anymore and begin the fight for the baby... None of them wants Maisie for what is worth, it´s just a fight between them in which the winner  has it all. Like if the child hadn't had enough by now, to add the constant moving around two houses every 10 days. Parents immersed in their jobs and unprepared to accept responsibilities.

Susanne and ex husband both move on and marry different persons, persons who end up babysitting a baby thats not theirs.

Alexander as Lincoln plays the rebound sex Julian Moore marries so she can appear more responsible to the court and get more access to her daughters custody(PATHETIC). Lincoln falls for Susanna,the famous rockstar  like a Kiddo. What he didn´t expect when marrying her, was the PLUS ONE little girl which he totally falls in love with... Never had he seen himself as a father so its impressive to watch his evolution closely. How he turns from a clumsy dude who forgets to hold the hand of the girl when crossing the streets, to an unimaginable teddybear.

Similarly, happens to the ex husband of Julianne who begins a new life with another girl , of course younger than him ,who turns out to be Maisie´s best nanny. So imagine the wrecking  feelings this little child has to confront!
Maisie, like a soccer ball,  moves from one house to another, with absent parents who really pay  no attention to her. It´s expected that love feeeling originate in this girl towards her stepdads. Maisie starts to call Margo her mum and Lincoln her dad.  Little by little they both begin to care about this girl to unimaginable levels. They start having fun with her, taking her playing and attending her more as their real parents than as step ones. Maisie in a complete mess doesn´t distinguish who her parents are anymore, but for the first time she´s feeling special.

 Heart of the story comes when Julianne and her ex husband both discover how they have ruined their childs life and decide to let her go. Because of their egocentrism and selfishness they have lost their little bumblebee and there´s no turning back now. She no longer recognises them.I don´t  doubt that her parents both loved her, but had taken bad decissions and these has cost them to loose their childs affection. This movie advices parents to hold their children and enjoy with them, because there will come a day when they leave and it will only depend on them if their childs one day returns.

SPECTACULAR! I have nothing more to say... LITTLE SPOILER.....:)