Towards the end of the movie, Charlie was reading Nicole's short biography about him, tearful eyes. Outside of the screen, I was a little bit emotional.
How beautiful we were at the beginning, but now we have to part ways.
The opening of Frances Ha's style was light and cheerful, but it passed away in a flash. Then began the long divorce chatter. The film impatiently uses a lot of trivial daily conversations to tell about this broken marriage, to build their precarious relationship , and even to test our loyalty to the film: will we just be "windy" because of it. Go to sleep like this.
They pretend that everything is okay, fantasizing about ending everything friendly with each other. However, in the mutual distrust, they gave up compromise and tacit understanding, and finally the court met each other.
Nicole lost herself in the constant running-in and retreat. She found that she was not something independent of Charlie, but just his "object".
Charlie thought that Nicole would still listen to her and divorce him "friendly". He was wrong. Nicole's toughness caught him off guard and even forced him to collapse. He fought back, and finally had a ten-minute tear-off scene with Nicole.
When Charlie scolded those nasty and dirty words to Nicole, he cried helplessly, because he had realized that the decentness that he could maintain before the divorce had been lost.
He became a completely embarrassed dog.
This is the cruelty of marriage.
Rather than saying that the movie is about divorce, it is better to say that it is pushing back one thing: Why do we love each other and get married? If we knew this broken situation a long time ago, would we still get married?
Love is unpredictable, and things after marriage are too unpredictable, leaving people just infinite sighs.
Love, the most beautiful thing is that if life is just like first time, when everything is in a daze, all we do is to accept it and continue to hide each other in our hearts.
It's like Nicole tie Charlie's shoes at the end, that 's the inertia of marriage, that's the aftermath of love.
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