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In a marriage, two people will be together because of love, but what separates them is not necessarily the disappearance of love. This movie is about such a couple, Charlie and Nicole, who love each other deeply and tolerate each other's shortcomings. But they became strangers to each other because of the trivial things in life that they didn't have before, ostracizing, criticizing, and even yelling hysterically at each other! It's not love that separates them, it's the subtle and sensitive things in our lives. It turns out that sometimes it is not love that defeats marriage, and this movie has done the best interpretation.
The movie opens with a monologue of two people. In these two monologues, Charlie and Nicole's love for each other is fully expressed. Although there are complaints, they can handle these inconsistencies in life well. Surprisingly, these two statements were written at the request of the marriage mediator.
Nicole grew up in an acting family in Los Angeles and had a good relationship with her family. And made a name for herself in youth comedies at an early age, she is enthusiastic, open and eager to grow in an environment like Los Angeles. But after meeting Charlie, he gave up his chance to become famous in Los Angeles and came to New York with him. Charlie is a "self-made" young pioneer director who has little contact with his parents. He moved to New York to live alone and runs his own theater company. Charlie's temperament is typical of New Yorkers, confined in his own space, and socializing is only limited to his own small circle of society.
Nicole's "brief" trip to Los Angeles due to an invitation from a TV series, Charlie didn't expect this to be the beginning of the end of their marriage. At Nicole's mother's house in Los Angeles, Nicole's sister happily handed the divorce papers to Charlie. And this is just the prelude to the divorce lawsuit between the two. Neither of them thought that the embarrassment at this time would turn into a ripped face in the future.
Both of them found their own divorce lawyers, and there was a 7-minute long scene when Nicole and her lawyer met. Nicole's actor Scarlett Johansson also perfectly controlled this scene, from the very beginning. She didn't know what to say, and she continued to express her dissatisfaction with her husband with her body language until she finally finished her account of the marriage with tears in her eyes.
Since the divorce lawsuit is going to take place in Los Angeles, Charlie has to deal with both New York and Los Angeles, which makes him very tired, and his lawyers desperately hope that Charlie can portray himself as a good father image, so he had to He often stayed in hotels in Los Angeles, and eventually even rented an apartment.
In the end, the two went to court. Although Charlie and Nicole rarely spoke in court, their lawyers worked hard for their perfect image, and also criticized and attacked the other party. Even the trivial things that are usually not worth mentioning are put on the table to exaggerate their influence, completely disregarding the feelings of the other party. Charlie and Nicole were sitting at opposite ends of the long table, and they became blurred backs. Maybe they didn't even think that things would come to this point.
The best part of the film is the ten-minute quarrel. At the beginning, the two were able to chat calmly, but as the two kept mentioning each other's shortcomings and faults, the conflict continued to escalate, from raising their own voices. To the blushing, the two hysterically cursed each other, and even cursed their respective families in a fit of anger. In the end, Nicole said that she regretted knowing Charlie all her life, and Charlie slammed his fist at the wall in a fit of rage. In the end, Charlie broke down and cried bitterly. They both realized their excesses and comforted each other.
They got divorced in the end, but can it be said that they have no love anymore? Even during the divorce lawsuit, Nicole still carefully helped Charlie get a haircut, and they still played with their son together. At the end of the film, when Charlie read the confession written by Nicole again, his facial muscles began to twitch and he couldn't restrain his emotions. Nicole behind him also had tears in his eyes. It seems that although they are destined not to be together, it is not love that defeats their marriage.
What impressed me the most in the film is such a scene, Nicole and Charlie are holding the door together, and son Henry is in the middle of them, closing the door little by little, which seems to represent the road they have traveled together over the years, they support together They helped each other, but in the end the door closed, and a door cut off their marriage, but they couldn't stop their love for each other and their son.
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