Movie Suggestion: "What Maisie Knew"

Wherever you're located in the world, whether it's summer or winter, it always feels good to cuddle up with a great movie and maybe a bowl of pop corn. I would like to dedicate some posts in this blog talking about good movies worth watching, maybe on a cold or rainy day. The movies will focus on addiction and problems in the family, and some of them may be sad, but they may also give us hope and a feeling of comfort and unity with other people's situations.

What Maisie Knew is a powerful, honest and unique film about divorce, seen from the eyes of the 6-year-old Maisie. After the separation between Maisie's mother Susanna and father Beale (played by Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan), the parents selfishly put their own needs in front of their daughter's in order to gain what they want. Susanna is an aging, touring rock star with alcohol- and drug problems, and Beale's a busy, traveling art dealer. In the same time as they fight for the custody of Maisie, they struggle to gain fame, fortune, money or love.

However, the movie's main focus doesn't lay on the parents, but on the little girl left behind, the girl who's stuck in the middle, always fought about or left alone at school with no one to pick her up. It's about how a destructive family can be seen from the eyes of the person always left in the middle, the person who's most of the time is forgotten or neglected: the child.