Lots of good movies this year. This "Marriage Story" unexpectedly competes with blockbusters such as "The Irishman" and "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" with life trivia, and has received many praises. My personal impression is that when I stopped to look at the progress bar while watching "The Irishman", this marriage story didn't, I read it in one breath. Probably too close to daily life, it is easier to resonate and sigh. (To put it bluntly, I probably still have a heart that loves gossip)
The story is based on director Noah Baumbach's personal experience, his divorce from actor Jennifer Jason Leigh in 2013. After watching the movie, the latter said that he liked it very much. It is said that the prototype of the female lawyer Nora played by Laura Dern is the lawyers who fought in the divorce lawsuit and is quite famous in Hollywood.
The other main creators, Scarlett Johansson and the aforementioned Laura Dern also have divorce experiences. The male lead Adam Driver is a child of a divorced family, and the little Henry in this film probably also has his shadow.
As an old movie fan from the 1990s, this "Marriage Story" somewhat reminds me of that year's Oscar hit, Kramer vs. Kramer. It is also a process in which women can't stand the shackles of family and turn a blind eye from each other, and the rise of female consciousness and the search for self. Sadly, after so many years, the family model has basically not changed.
The difference between the two films is that "Kremer" focuses more on the gradual establishment of the family relationship between father and son, from rusty to deep affection, the mother (Meryl Streep) is missing for most of the film. .
And "Marriage Story", is a glimpse of love and warmth through a divorce battle. It's a pity that those beautiful moments, because of a certain sentence blurted out, can never be returned.
At the beginning, through the monologues of the male and female lead actors, the general outline of the two people was outlined:
Nicole is a good listener, but sometimes spends too much time listening to strangers; she likes to play with children; she cares about her mother and sister; she never closes the door; she cuts her hair and gives gifts. . .
Charlie is a dedicated theatre director, talented and creative; eats as if someone else is going to grab it; too competitive; loves tidy; built from scratch; saves energy and turns off the lights often, sometimes without even seeing it Nicole in the house; loves being a dad; always dressing without feeling awkward, which is rare for a man. . .
This monologue uses hand-cranked photography, which has a more sense of life.
The battle at Charlie's apartment after the mid-court debate was where the worst things were said.
Like yesterday's "The Magical Mrs. Maisel" who are still friends after divorce, probably can only be a legend in this society. All kinds of relationship breakages within sight have experienced this embarrassing time.
The most typical is probably Hu Yinmeng meeting Li Ao, three months of romance, and thirty years of humiliation.
I have also experienced that when the other party said the most hurtful words, whether it was intentional or unintentional, I knew that this relationship would never go back.
No one is perfect, and under the microscope, all are flawed. Just like the evaluator came to the house in the film, both father and son didn't know how to eat. How to maintain a good relationship is an age-old problem. Don't believe someone who says that he knows how to live and how to love, these are all lies. About 99% of the perfect relationships you can see are because one party is suppressing their own personality to accommodate the other party. When this personality recovers, it is the beginning of a break.
Movies like "Marriage Story" bring a lot of thought. I don't think it's tearjerker. Living up to now, the possibility of divorce and remarriage is extremely low, but if there is a day when you really face it, you should be calm and calm; thought about this paragraph.
Other little bits about the movie:
Both the director and the male lead were fans of Sondheim's 1971 musical Company, so the male lead sang Being Alive and Scarlett sang You Could Drive a Person Crazy. Two other films this year: Knife Out featured Losing My Mind from Sondheim's 1971 musical Follies. Send in The Clown, sung by the Subway Three in Joker, is from Sondheim's A Little Night Music.
At Nicole's mother's house, there was a newspaper clipping of Charlie and Nicole, titled Scenes From A Marriage, in tribute to Swedish director Bergman's 1974 film of the same name, Scener ur ett äktenskap .
On the first Halloween, Charlie dressed as the Invisible Man and waited for Henry when the voice on the TV was the 1985 movie Legend.
When Charlie and Henry go to the cinema, there is a poster in the background of Spielberg's 2018 Ready Player One. And Charlie's Adam Driver starred in Spielberg's 2012 work "Lincoln."
The first Halloween, Scarlett dressed as David Bowie, fans happy.
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