Movie "What Maech Knows": Her parents fight for her custody, and the only one who raises her is her stepfather and stepmother
What do seven-year-olds know? Let's think back to our seven years old, do you remember what happened like that?
What Maech Knows is a 2013 film based on the novel of the same name. The story is shot from the perspective of a seven-year-old girl, and after we read it, we will understand what Metch knows.
<h1>Her parents, who loved her dearly, finally divorced</h1>
Little Maech lives in a "happy" family, her mother is a well-known rock star, her father is a small and accomplished art dealer, and she also has a young nanny sister Mag. Her parents loved her, her mother would sing a lullaby to Meech, and the little girl would occasionally be naughty and want her mother to sing her own rock music to lull her to sleep. Mother couldn't, picked up the guitar and played a low-pitched cappella. In the quiet and warm night, Metch gradually sinks into a dream.
At the end of the night, the parents were arguing again, they were talking loudly about their careers, belittling each other, And Maech wanted to tell them that the pizza was coming, and the parents who were arguing could not hear her weak voice. Little Metch seemed to be treated like this often, and she stopped trying to disturb them, and took out the money from the piggy bank herself to tip the takeaway guy.
The parents became more and more grumpy in such a marriage, and this night, the mother locked her father out. A thudding door in the night awakens Metch, who reminds her mother that Her father is back, but her mother intends to ignore it. The noise grew louder and louder, and the mother couldn't bear it, and Metch listened to her father and mother scolding through a door.
They finally go to court, and the judge will decide who will award custody of her. Bored, Meech stood in the hallway waiting, and she saw her father talking to the judge. Metch's custody was eventually awarded to her father, and her mother could not accept it, crying and scolding, almost pleading, but the father was unmoved. Little Metch didn't know what that meant, and she listened quietly.
<h1>Her parents, who loved her deeply, both had a "significant other."</h1>
Meggie and her father moved out of their original home, and it was the original nanny Marg who opened the door, and the two adults seemed to be very worried. The new children's room was nice and the toys were all arranged by Marg according to Maech's preferences. Marg played with her, and everything seemed to be the same as before, except that there was no mother.
My father's business was still busy, and it took a long time to travel every time. Before leaving, his father said he would take them to Italy for a boat ride, and Both Maech and Marg were delighted. A few days later, it was the day of my mother's house, and in the taxi, my mother kissed Metch fiercely. Metch was very happy to see her mother, she rolled up her sleeves to let her mother see the scars on her arm, and told her mother that her father let her cook her own food, in exchange for her mother's hugs and comfort.
When her mother learned from Metch that Marg was at her father's house, she took him to court again, so the judge asked them to take turns raising him every ten days. Father and Marg are married, and Metch is a flower girl. On the day of Marg's honeymoon with her father, little Metch waited for her mother to pick her up with her bouquet of flowers from her collection. But the mother did not come, but Marg, who had hurried from the airport, and a strange tall man.
The man said he was married to Metch's mother, Metch's stepfather, and his name was Lincoln. Neither Marg nor Metch believed it, because her mother never said she was married. After making a phone call to confirm that this was true, Marg rushed back to the airport, and Maech and Lincoln returned home. Seeing her mother at home, Megch reconfirmed the matter with her, and her mother whispered to her that Lincoln was just a bartender and that he had married just to let him take care of Meggie.
Metch remembered her mother's words, and she later asked Marg, "Is Daddy and you really married?" Marg said yes with certainty.
Lincoln was a bartender, gentle and inferior, and because of his tall stature, he always spoke with his head bowed. Little Metch gradually accepted Lincoln.
<h1>She couldn't see her parents who loved her deeply</h1>
Her mother loved Meggie so much that every time she saw Meggie, she couldn't help but rub her into her body. Father loves Metch very much, and as long as they are together, he will carefully take care of Metch's feelings. However, Megne could barely see them, and they entrusted Lincoln and Marg with the care of Metch.
If her father fails to pick up Metch on time, her mother will be close to collapse, thinking that her father is deliberately trying to make things difficult for her. Angry mothers often say inadvertent things that can easily make Metch think she is rejected. Lincoln noticed this, and he gently soothed Metch's young heart.
The handover day of taking turns to take care of Maech every ten days became the day lincoln and Marg met, perhaps because they could understand each other, and the two got along quite well. Originally, her parents should accompany her on weekends and watch children's dramas, but now it is all in charge of Marg and Lincoln.
After his mother and Lincoln got married, they were always suspicious and lost their temper, and Lincoln chose to endure in silence. Marg was snubbed after marrying her father, and he didn't really treat Marg as a wife at all, and marg's name was not on the rental contract, so she couldn't return home. Father traveled more and more frequently, suddenly came back and left suddenly, and finally one day, their conflict broke out, and Marg left.
After Marg leaves, Maech learns from his father that the main reason why his father married Marg was to take care of Magg. Maech expected to be with his father, who immediately decided to take Metch back to England. But Metch still wanted to be with her mother, and Metch could only stay here.
His parents always had all sorts of reasons to go out of town, and the only people who really took care of Metch were Lincoln and Marg. Marg was about to be separated from her father, and Lincoln saw her mother in the street hugging other men. Lincoln, who had been enduring it, couldn't stand it anymore, and they separated. This scene was all looked at by little Metch.
<h1>Metch understood everything</h1>
Mother wanted to continue doing her tour and she had to leave overnight. With no one to take care of Metch, her mother had to entrust her to Lincoln again. But instead of talking to Lincoln on the phone, she was sent straight to the door of the bar where Lincoln worked, leaving Metch alone. However, this night, Lincoln did not go to work. Crowded bars, drunks of all kinds, Metch fell asleep while waiting for Lincoln.
Until the bar closed, the staff still did not contact Lincoln, and a waitress took Metch to the house she rented. Metch woke up in an unfamiliar environment, surrounded by people she didn't know, and she cried and cried and fell asleep. The next day, Marg, who had hurried in, picked up Meg, who left the city and came to the seashore.
By the sea, Meech is happy, and she and Marg go to the beach every day to play. A few days later, Lincoln came, and the three of them were about to take the boat together. Metch still remembers the boat ride, but Maech's father has long forgotten. Meech's mother arrives overnight, and she tries to pick up Meg, but Maech refuses, and she wants to take a boat with Marg and Lincoln before leaving. The mother was furious, and she did not control her temper, frightening Metch. Realizing this, the mother regretted it and was scared, and she asked Mech if she knew who her mother was, and Metch said quietly, "You."
Mother leaves to continue her tour, and Marg and Lincoln continue to play with Metch.
What does Metch know? Meech knew everything. She knew that her parents often quarreled, and would continue to quarrel even if they started their own families; she knew that her parents said they loved her, but they did not take responsibility; he knew that Marg and Lincoln were not her biological parents, but they were willing to accompany her to take care of her.
Metch was only seven years old, she was weak and pitiful, independent and strong, smart and sensible, she had her own ideas. Maybe when she was older, she couldn't remember everything that happened when she was seven, but she must remember that there were two people who gave her parents not the warmth they hadn't given.
In our traditional consciousness, stepfathers and stepmothers are always bad people, they only humiliate and scold children, where will they really love children? But it's only one person who is bad, not everyone.