A six-year-old child, watching his parents quarrel and slander each other; fighting for custody like a trophy, but not cherishing it after getting it; easily starting a second marriage for some purpose... These are all things that little Maisie sees. eyes. What do children know? A child knows everything - who is good to her, who is really to her... It's just that she can't choose her own parents - this, little Maisie also knows.
And the director hasn't planned to make the audience completely despair, setting up two such warm characters in the play, Margo and Lincoln. Yes, they were so young, a nanny and a bartender, how could they compare to Maisie's own parents, a rich businessman and a rock star. But they warm Maisie with their simple love. Maisie insisted that Lincoln send her into the classroom and proudly introduced him to the class: This is my new stepfather. And told Margo: I love him...
Maisie was an angelic child who opened up to her new dad and new mother. But her biological parents couldn't even do that.
Towards the end of the film, Maisie refuses her mother's request to take her away, which is when she finally starts to get some happiness for herself instead of being stuffed by her selfish parents with so-called gifts that will make her happy.
Many details in the film are intriguing:
First, Margo found the bouquet of flowers that Maisie's mother sent but was thrown into the trash by her father. Maisie said: He is allergic... She is using a little lie to maintain her father's image. And Margo, although it seemed to appear as a mistress before, said at this time: We made it a specimen, so you can have them forever... an instant surge in favorability.
Second, when Maisie had a chance to get along with Lincoln for the first time, her mother saw Lincoln and Maisie playing speculatively in the recording studio, and came out and took Maisie away. I felt a chill in my heart... It turns out that she doesn't love Lincoln - she doesn't even trust him. Married him only because her ex-husband found a young nanny. Fortunately, the director did not change his mind and did not portray Lincoln as a lewd and lewd man.
Another is Margo crying out of control in front of the apartment, saying "He cannot use people like this...". In fact, Margo understood that Maisie's father married her mostly because she could take good care of Maisie, not because she loved her. She knew that he was using her, but she didn't complain too much and didn't put her anger on Maisie - she really liked Maisie.
Maisie's dad said she was going to London, and she couldn't go with her, Maisie turned her head thoughtfully and looked away; Maisie's mum threw her at the door of the bar late at night and told her to go to her stepfather, Maisie meekly pulled away The heavy door of the bar - it should not have been opened by a child; she witnessed her parents arguing, heard her parents call in front of her and complained that the other party didn't pick her up on time... All this, little Maisie just accepted it silently, No crying. Only that time, she couldn't find Lincoln and Margo, her mother left her and walked away, her father is in the UK at the moment, she slept in someone's house, she was little, and finally wept...
I believe many people see When Margo and Lincoln finally get together, seeing Maisie so happy in front of them must be a relief. The director stopped everything here and stopped filming.
The reality is far more cruel than this: she can't stay with her step-parents forever... Maybe in a few days, her mother will pick her up when she returns from the tour and take her back to that luxurious apartment. Who would be the man next to her mother at that time? Is there a love like Lincoln's? Will her mother's neuroticism be repeated over and over again, leaving a permanent shadow on Maisie's heart?
Perhaps Maisie's own parents thought: This is my child, and I can do whatever I want. Maybe legally, they have this priority, but what they are doing can only make the children more alienated from them. Lincoln has always appeared in the play as a weak little white-faced character who doesn't seem to dare to speak aloud to Maisie's mother, but finally broke out: You don't deserve her.
Yes, such a person is not worthy of being a parent.
There is a saying that every girl, all her life, is nothing but: Grow up like her mother.
I hope Maisie doesn't.
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