Marriage Story: What Determines The Direction Of Life?

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If you want to write a story for a marriage, divorce may be the most common outcome. But the American director Noah Baumbach's new marriage story is just based on negotiation divorce as the starting point of the story. Divorce is no longer a simple result, but a grinding and seesaw battle.

Charlie (Adam Driver plays) is a theater director who met young actor Nicole (Scarlett Johansson played). Nicole, who grew up in California, immediately settled down with Charlie in New York, and the two married and had children. Until Nicole got an invitation to the American drama, she longed to return to Losangeles and restart the screen business. Charlie is on its way to the Broadway stage for the first time. The two started the divorce drama because of their different development plans.

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The film begins with two monologues, and Charlie and Nicole tell each other about their loveliness. A group of montage is full of vivid daily details and intimate family life scenes. Their love and care, as well as their common care for children, were confirmed at the beginning of the story. But this is actually why they are asked to write down why they love each other when they accept divorce mediation. The marriage story uses the remaining time to use linear narrative to show the twists and cruelty of divorce.

Telling stories and telling stories is very important to both sides. This also explains why the movie entitled "marriage story" actually shows the process and process of divorce. Two people discuss their marriage with family members, friends and lawyers every time. They are exporting their attitudes towards this unsustainable emotion. They have to constantly recall their past memories and try to find the crux of the problem.

Especially when they tit for tat for the custody of their sons, the intervention of divorce lawyers brings the narration of the relationship between the two to a new dimension. Divorce lawyers value the outcome of judgment, and in their eyes, any trivial matter can be magnified into an insignificant stain. Charlie's extramarital love and Nicole's drinking habits are used to fabricate a disqualified partner and parent to the court. Divorce lawsuits have also been shown to children. In the long process of waiting for a judicial decision, he must belong to his parents at the same time and spend two times in two places.

When two independent individuals can not accommodate each other, it is difficult to recognize the story told by the other person. Communication is ineffective. Their explanations for the same thing are often mutually exclusive. Charlie can not recognize the grievances and sacrifices of Nicole. Nicole is intolerable to Charlie's egotism. The performances of Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson complement each other, even in most scenes, they are not in the same screen time and space.

Cities have the same character as characters. The marriage story combines the antagonism of two different characters in New York and Losangeles. The two cities are located on the East and west coast of the United States respectively, representing two modes of film creation. They also correspond to different visions and goals of their respective development, and the distance between them makes it impossible to make up for the gap.

Baumbach did not hesitate to use films to reflect and reflect on his personal experience. When he was a child, he had experienced the divorce of his parents. He also had an end marriage after he had grown up. He is a typical New York intellectual who grew up in Broolyn, and his former companion, Jennifer Jason Lee, is an actress from a Hollywood movie family. In the early famous "squid and whale", Baumbach looked at a series of family crises triggered by his parents' divorce from the perspective of adolescence. This time he switched the narrative angle. "Marriage story" shows the entanglement and tear between husband and wife, and let us see a more mature Baumbach. He became more temperate. The angry and confused teenagers in the squid and whale were unable to cope with the demolition of the original family, and the parents in the marriage story finally compromise with each other and set up a new steady state.

From beginning to end, the marriage story does not deny the love between Charlie and Nicole. But as the film shows, unavoidable life trifles, sudden job opportunities and conceptual differences that can not be crossed are all more intense than love and even more decisive for the direction of life.