"I lost my little boy." I broke. I have no idea why Maisie said she was nervous about finding work after Thrones. She clearly has so much to offer. I really hope her career continues to flourish because the emotion she can channel is just so powerful...
@@dirtdiv3r you mean termination of fetus? Lets go through stages of development: From 0-2 weeks of pregnancy, Its germinal. Literally just a cluster of cells with no real order. 90% of the time, a miscarriage happens at this stage and noone notices. If you have been pregnant before, that 90% odds drops quite a bit. Then from 3-8 weeks its Embryonic, where you show early stages of evolution in your development, but lack any heart or really most organ like structures. 75% of the time, a miscarriage happens at this stage, and most women just think its a rough period. That said, it can be really rough, especially if you knew you were knocked up. After that the pregnancy is in fetal stages til the roughly 9 month period. At this point you start developing the features and structures that start making you more human and less blob. Chance of miscarriage drops to 25%, even lower if you have given birth before. Then you are born, and assuming you you are not stillborn, mortality rate significantly depends on where you are born in the world, but even in the US, it happens through natural means. When you are born, you are a baby (or infant), typically for 12 months. You are still not a child. From 12-36 months (aka 1-3 years old) you are a toddler. Still not a child. After 3 years of existing outside the womb, you are finally a child. There is a whole slander and libel difference between being pro-choice and "advocating child murder." On top of that, there is a whole slander and libel difference between being pro-choice and being pro terminating a pregnancy. For instance, I personally don't like the idea of abortions, both for personal beliefs, as well as personal history. With that said, I am pro-choice as I believe that A) the govt should have 0 to say what we do with our bodies, as it is none of their business, and B) I believe god gave each of us free will, and it is not on me to impose my will on another human being. They have a God given right to chose for themselves, and if there are spiritual repercussions for that choice, thats between them and their maker. It is very anti christian to assume you have the right to judge people for their actions. According to the bible, only god can judge sins, and it is an unforgivable sin to think yourself god. Likewise, At no point should the government tell me what I can and cannot do with my body, especially if they are basing those decisions based on how someone interprets a religious text. Should the government make laws forcing women to walk 10 steps behind their husband? Should they make it illegal for a woman to talk in a mans presence without first being addressed? the answer is that is ridiculous, but that is what happens if we use the bible to make law. A fetus is not a separate life yet, and its up to the mother if she wants to be an incubator or not for something that some day might or might not become its own person. That is the science, and that is what we should be making the decision off of. Go fund better medical science so we can grow these abortions in test tubes, and then you can say they cant abort, and instead can donate. Also also if you are truly pro life, I hope you also foster kids, as if you are gonig to force unwanted kids into the world, you should also take some first hand ownership of the problem that creates. I want kids of my own, but not everyone is me.
I lost a son, and recently made a wonderful friendship with a 94 year old man next door who lost his wife, and 3 of his 4 children. I am so grateful I am his next door neighbor, we have a special bond. This movie captures that magic. It really helps, thank you so much. Bravo!
For those who are not from the UK, you should be aware that Ronald Pickup (Udo) is a very well-known and highly respected actor. A great performance, and I would expect nothing less.
This hits too close to home. I had a neighbor who was a WW2 vet, he was there my whole life and he always loved spending time with me, and i did aswell. But, as I grew into my teens, I started getting more distracted and more shy. I used to be fine talking to him and sitting with him. But then I just stopped going over to see him except for holidays where I would briefly go and tell him to have a great day and that would be it. He one day collapsed and went to a hospital, I visited him but I naively thought "Oh he'll be back soon, I just want to go home". Then one day my mother told me he passed. He was 95. I just wish in his last couple years I could've been better to him and paid him back for all he ever did for me. Please, cherish the time you have with loved ones, you never know how much time you have left.
Ben Franklin told us that there were only two certainties in life 'Death and Taxes'. I lost my son eleven years ago (he was aged eighteen but had suffered from a physical disability all his life). Your last paragraph is so true but please don't keep looking back with regrets. Keep looking forward and try to make this world better for the next generation.
I agree, this is what great storytelling looks like. As opposed to the usual - big explosions, cheesy unrealistic characters, terrible unrealistic script, hammy acting zero emotion and terrible dialogue. Which is the type of storytelling Hollywood usually opts for lol :)
So many UK, New Zealand and Australian films are far superior to the cookie cutter crud that is churned out by Hollywood. If I see the film is made in the USA I have to think twice if I want to chance wasting my time. Non-Hollywood films are almost always better with only a few exceptions.
You need to read about Sir Nicholas Winton. He saved almost 700 Jewish children by putting them on trains heading to the UK. There was even a TV show where the host asked the audience to stand up if they were saved by him, and everyone in the audience stood up!
@@torianews3422 Thank you for asking and for your well wishes. Yes I would say I am still in that elusive space, grounded sometimes but mostly not. I am a broken person. But I'm still here.
Well done! My father has dementia. Child door locks, confiscated stove knobs, hidden knives and razors. He too, is unstuck in time. Fine film. Thank you.
My mother passed away from Alzheimer’s about ten years ago. It’s rough. Your dad may stay in the stage he is in now or he could regress further. All cases are different. I would take my mom out for drives, just to get her out of the house but it tended to disorient her and make her angry. Yet I’d give anything to have her back. Enjoy your dad as much as you can. The old sense love and affection even when they’re confused. It’s all we can give them but, at the same time, it’s all they really want. Wish you both the best.
@@cooltalktalks4944 : Thank you for your kind words and meaningful thoughts. We listen to music daily and I (try to) prepare meals he enjoys particularly from his youth. So much Spam! Your "reply" has been significant to my well being and, thus, pop's. I wish you well, sir!
Jut found this film today. Alzheimer’s got my grandma, I still have her voice on my answering machine but she’s been dead years now. Still think of things I wish I’d asked her when I had the chance. I hope you and your pops continue well as possible in these strange times.
@@The3Storms Thanks for your reply. Pop is gone. He died in ER quarantine - alone. It has been a couple of months and I really get wishing I could talk to him once more. I still hear him shuffling around and see him. Very disconcerting. Please, stay safe and well. Your words are a kindness.
Ronald Pickup: Darkest Hour, Prince of Persia, Holby, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, unbroken TV career since the early seventies. Still working and surely in his late seventies by now, he's one of the better things that Britain has produced. They both had me welling up.
When he asked if he could hold her and she said you know I'm not your wife. He knew that, but for that brief, fleeting moment, he felt his wife once again in his arms. Priceless.
Very different ages and life experiences: an old man and a very young woman. However the same loneliness and affective lack. Beautiful short film. The relationship between them is treated with the delicacy that the theme deserves and the transformation in their lives is shown subtly. Thank you for the video
Wow. Beautiful. 😢 touched me deeply. My mom has dementia and my son was stillborn 11 years ago. This film wrecked me. In a good way. A profound way. Life is full of hurt and loss. And life has value, especially when we allow ourselves to connect with others. Thank you 🙏
This story touched my heart. I lost my mother to Alzheimer's 10 years back and this short made so many memories, both sad and wonderful come flooding back.You're an incredible talent Maisie and you will do great things. Thank you for this.
Sorry to hear about your mom. I Lost my mom ten years ago as well. Alzheimer’s is called the long goodbye. I hope they find better treatment for it soon. Millions of families are affected.
It's tough. Caregiving is hard. The person you knew changes into someone you don't. *hugs* My mom called me mommy the other day. 😭 We just have to pull it together & keep going.
I cared for my grandfather before he passed. This guy reminds me of my grandfather. Like how I could sometimes talk with him and suddenly his perspective shifted and he had a whole different story going on in his mind. He didn't know me most of the time. Once he thought I was going to attack him and shouted for the police. Once he scolded me for 'leaving the house at late night' because he couldn't see me cleaning in the kitchen at 9pm. Once he called me Mummy, clung to me and didn't want to let go. He was my source of comfort. I felt like he was the only person who truly accepted me and listened to me as best he could, the only one I could not disappoint because he didn't judge me. It's easy for me to not judge him but to receive that in return from someone who saw you as a stranger means so much. Whenever I felt overwhelmed, he would be there to listen and give unrelated but sweet advices. I miss him a lot. I hope you guys caring for your loved ones make wonderful memories together.
Ms. Williams has expressed doubt that she's "not hot enough for Hollywood"... meanwhile some of us on this side of the screen wonder if we're looking at the beginnings of a new Meryl Streep or Katherine Hepburn kind of career. "Thrones" gave her opportunities to play a HUGE range of emotions, more so than almost anything I can imagine. "Hotness" has the ability to trap an actress, witness Michelle Pfeiffer playing a waitress in a diner, "Frankie & Johnny." Just... can't be done. Stay unhot, Maisie, we'll be with you forever.
I agree Benin, he was the best of the best. I have never seen him in anything I didn’t like. He had a way of taking a part, owning it, and making one believe that role. And this short is proof. I did not know he had passed til I read your comment. It truly saddens me. There will never be another such as he.
It's not because of their acting. It's because of the direction. Cinematography. One of these two was featured in one of the worst season of got ever! Music, dialog, every thing is great. Their acting is least important.
@@ichabod1370 you know you actually confirmed what is said? Yeah we have a few good actors here and there but I assure you she's not one of them I'm talking about Robert De Niro Al Pacino Robert Downey Jr Heath Ledger the main reason for a movie to be successful is directing cinematography music soundtrack visual effects editing and so on and so forth!
I laughed so hard when the meals-on-wheels guy showed up and she answers the old dude with sweetheart and the meals on wheels guys just looking at her like really. And then instead of explaining herself she she just tells him to sod off!!! I'm dieing 😂🤣😂😆😂
Yeah that threw me off, WAY off. Up to that point in the film I thought she was a 13 year old kid. I mean I thought the actress was about that young. I am unfamiliar with her prior work but I understand she's been acting for a while now. But according to her appearance in this film, if she was the age I first thought her to be she'd have to have been around 9 when she got pregnant. She's probably going to be able to play a teenager for maybe another ten years.
She's 21 when the film was made. For her kid to have been 3 then, she'd have had to been knocked up at 17. When she mentioned her "boy" I was half expecting her to mean her boyfriend. After she revealed that it was her son, I had to pause it and look up her age; I'd swear she was only 15. 😅
I dont find her attractive but she is very beautiful, theres a few like that, I didn't like Jennifer Lawrence when she was younger , its prob just cos shes been in a boyish role and very very young when we met her, that plays a big thing
@@BipoIarbear Out of curiosity, how does one not find somebody attractive but still thinks they are beautiful. I'm guessing you meant attractive in the physical sense but beautiful in the personality sense?
PreYeah mainly cos I’ve grown up with her being a young lass an in my brain it says yes she’s beautiful but to me it feels wrong , eg cos I was invested in her character but mainly cos she reminds me of my sister
Sometimes you have to find your family. Not everyone can be born into one. And sometimes you have to replace a loss, even knowing that it will never be the same.
I lost my dear mother just 2 years ago. I was her caretaker for her last 7 years- she had dementia. I miss her dreadfully. There were the good times and bad times but she still had her sense of humor at 89 and knew who she was and who I was. What else could I hope for.
The dialogue and acting by Maise and Ronald is top shelf! Well written and directed. This is something that could and should be made into a full length film
I watched this film twice so I could adsorb everything the producer is trying to say to us..wow I got even a better perspective the 2nd time round. What a great short film. Better than any Hollywood film that lasts for hours. A young woman who's lost her son and an older man who lost his mother when he was young. Their connection is beautiful and the way you show how they each have something to share with each other is real. The irony in him finding his "silver" meaning the pictures or memories from his childhood. Their worth silver to him because that's his past. Much respect to you for making these films.
I watched this three times over the past three days since i saw it on my recommendations and i love it its like watching rain fall its so calming and beautiful in a very simple and warm way💛
A very moving film. The casting is perfect. Maisie Williams & Ronald Pickup have great chemistry in making this work. Kudos 2 all involved. Great work! 👍 👌 ✊
My stepfather was a wonderful man, a WWII veteran, and had a zest for life. In his mid 80's he developed dementia, and I quickly learned to play a role, much like an actor. The script took place in whatever year he thought it was, my role was whomever he thought I was at that moment, and in his imagined tragedies, I would be that person who came to calm the storm. It kept me on my toes, and I had to speak English, French, and Spanish to make it real for him, buy not a day goes by that I'd don't miss him. It also happened with my aunt who was childless, and also a WWII veteran. I would stop by to see her everyday as she was dying. I would read her mail to her, and would make up little stories about one of her letters being from a long lost love who just wanted to say hello,. I don't know who the hell I was channeling when I made up those letters, but as I conveyed the words to her I was often surprised.
An incredibly beautiful and poignant short film. Economical with the story - I wondered where it was going, right up until the last few minutes when everything came together and I was hit between the eyes with so much emotion. Of course, this could easily be a much longer film. Well acted by Maisie, who portrayed her character convincingly. Tragic and emotional. Wonderful. Thank you.
this short is so delicate and beautiful, it transmits so much with small dialogue, it's perfectly acted, perfectly directed, everything is perfect, I loved it.
What a beautiful film. I didn't think I was going to like her, but I didn't know ... the pain she carried, and the compassion she was capable of giving.
Beautifully filmed gem. I adore Ronald Pickup , Maisie & he brought me to tears with this beautiful short. Brought back wonderful memories of my great friendship as a child with the 90 yr old gardener of the local monastery, Brother Ahern , who made life magical.
This is objectively one of the best short films I've seen in a long while. Two absolutely brilliant performances. Stay tuned for Maisie's next performance... a comedy album. She really can do anything... and do it well.
Impressed, saddened and was totally lost in the moment. This short emotional film touched upon so many old personal childhood memories. A truly captivating performance by Maisie Williams. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
I'm a simple girl, I see "Maisie Williams" I click! I even liked the video before even watching it cuz I knew how good it was gonna be! And I wasn't disappointed at all :)
When I visited my 95-year old dad for a month in a small town in northern Ontario, none of the neighbors across the street or beside him ever visited with him. He'd be out there mowing the lawn in the summer or racking the leaves in the fall or shovelling the snow in the winter at that age and no one helped him. It was sad that he's lived in that house for over 30 years and not one person cared. Most were young couples with kids and although they didn't have anything in common, you'd think someone in all those years passing by would have stopped by to chat or check in on him but nope. Sad when we see neighbours decade after decade and continue to act like strangers. (This is what this film reminded me of.)
Maisie Williams is poised to be one of the greater young actors to come from GoT hands down. Her unique look and intense ability to succumb to her characters will drive her career quite far.
This is very poignantly beautiful. I understood the film, yeah. But I really wished this was a full movie to sort of... expand and tell more of the story in a slow-burn manner, you know? To expound more on dementia, and how she lost her son, and how they found solace in their pain.
shared pain of two unsuspecting friends, that needed each other more than they actually knew or cared to admit. Beautifully captured in this moving short film. Wonderfully done.
I'm an old guy, and for about a year I got to know a young woman, much like here, much like Maisie. She moved on into a world that ultimately made her unhappy. By then, she'd really moved on.
My sons mother died when they were young. My sweet middle son died in his early 20s. I confirmed his identity. I'm still waiting for him to come home. My neighbours door has me look up expecting him through the door. We are quite capable of containing various emotions and ideas: even inconsistent or irratict. They seem normal through This was a great piece of story telling
She has said that was an issue especially because she can’t seem to get jobs playing someone older or in s romance. She said it might be because of her looks, or that people had seen her grow up and feel uncomfortable casting her. When she was in Doctor Who I think Ashildr was at least 18, but she acted like a kid with a wild imagination and you only realise she is older much later.
I don't know why this was written, but I hope that it was cathartic for the writer as the loss is so palpable that even a hard ass old man like myself felt the moisture in my eyes threaten tears. This was beautiful.
Maisie Williams, was/is my favorite actress/character in Game of Thrones. Such an amazing talent for acting. This was a sad short, and Maisie played her part so so well. The old man was good too. When she said she lost her little boy- 🥺 Excellent short!
An exploratory movie.. emotional, tender, loving and made with care. Emphasis is on the growing relationship, the point where there is a break through and then the relationship is forever. Grief, companionship, and space for a new relationship. Liked when Leonis said “I am not your wife, you know” and the hug that follows..
This is like the 5th Onletto short that I've seen in two days. They are all so good, and I figured out why. Realistic, yes. Well written, yes, always with a well chosen cast, unknowns but always well chosen and acted. But that's not it. It's the feeling, the emotion. Despite the sense that there might not be a lot "going on" there is always so much emotion rippling through every scene that it hard to turn away. Well done again!!
Wonderful production. I try to avoid getting too personal on the "interwebs", yet this got me to tear up just a bit. While I am usually a hot-head who is quick to find trouble, this reminded me that kindness is a beautiful thing. These days, we can really use a lot more kindness.
An incredible range of emotions all the way across the board. These are the sort of stories that lead toward Oscar considerations. Of course the elephant in the room is that this is starring someone who is world known, except there is an element that everyone can relate to this sort of story in one way or another. Very impressive, well produced and directed. Worthy of awards.
Reminds me of me and my mother, she doesn't have this problem but, she needs assistant living for now and I can't take care of her like I was & wanted. Still Thank God she's alive.
They both lost something that can never be replaced. In that they found someone to help them through the pain. I imagine if they had been the same age, a true romance would have flourished. ❤
Absolutely one of the best short films i have seen in a long time. Such a touching story line . Alzheimer's a heart breaking disease. Amazing work i hope you win awards and go far in your film making . Honestly amazing work Thank you
I watched this 4 years ago during the pandemic now I'm 24 years old working as a teacher's assistant since graduating from Saint Peter's University 2 years ago.
Considering the relative shortness in length of this film it's depth and quality of the acting and script and unparalleled. A wonderful piece to behold..
