marriage story

Jacinthe 2022-04-21 09:01:26

"Marriage Story" is actually a divorce story.

At the beginning of the film, it is a warm and beautiful day-to-day life. Tender, romantic, and sincere, What I Love about Charlie/Nicole.

As soon as the camera turned, these memories were originally part of marriage mediation. How did those former loves shatter into chicken feathers?

There is no story of dog blood, just the accumulation of a little neglect, the collision under the small waves. The context of communication has been lost, and the calm despair is even more suffocating.

Disputes and warmth are intertwined, pushing the story to a climax. A face-ripping quarrel, accusing each other, cursing each other with the most vicious words, punishing each other with every sentence, and stomping each other's dignity on the ground.

Someone to hold you too close, hurt you too deep and make you aware of being alive. The song ended with a sigh. They are each other's someone. But what about someone? In fact, there are not so many impossible and impossible things in life. To put it bluntly, it is only willing or not.

Don't leave the words in your heart until the end. At the end of the movie, Charlie reads the belated letter, What I love about Charlie. The last sentence is "I'll never stop loving you, even though it's pointless."

When he read the letter, when she naturally bent down to tie his shoelaces, the ugliness before it was gone. The residual warmth still exists, but it is not enough to warm the rest of my life. The love I once had is still there, but it can't continue. It's just the right distance, I wish each other well.

fair enough. A lifetime is just a few decades, as long as what you ultimately pursue is the life you want, that's fine.

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Marriage Story quotes

  • Nora Fanshaw: People don't accept mothers who drink too much wine and yell at their child and call him an asshole. I get it. I do it too. We can accept an imperfect dad. Let's face it, the idea of a good father was only invented like 30 years ago. Before that, fathers were expected to be silent and absent and unreliable and selfish, and can all say we want them to be different. But on some basic level, we accept them. We love them for their fallibilities, but people absolutely don't accept those same failings in mothers. We don't accept it structurally and we don't accept it spiritually. Because the basis of our Judeo-Christian whatever is Mary, Mother of Jesus, and she's perfect. She's a virgin who gives birth, unwaveringly supports her child and holds his dead body when he's gone. And the dad isn't there. He didn't even do the fucking. God is in heaven. God is the father and God didn't show up. So, you have to be perfect, and Charlie can be a fuck up and it doesn't matter. You will always be held to a different, higher standard. And it's fucked up, but that's the way it is.

  • Bert Spitz: You know what this is like? This is like that joke about the woman at the hairdresser, she's going to Rome. You know this?

    Charlie: I don't.

    Bert Spitz: This woman is at her hairdresser, and she says, "I'm going to Rome on Holiday." And he says, "Oh, really? What airline are you taking?" She says, "Alitalia." He says, "Alitalia? Are you crazy? That's the worst - that's terrible. Don't take that. Where you gonna stay?" She says, "I'm gonna stay at the Hassler." "The Hassler? What, are you kidding? They're renovating the Hassler. You'll hear hammering all night long. You won't sleep. What are you gonna see?" She says, "I think I'm gonna try to go the Vatican." "The Vatican? You'll be standing in line all day long. You'll never get to see anything."

    Charlie: I'm sorry, Bert, am I paying for this joke?