Marriage Story - Thoughts
Just finished watching Marriage Story and oh it was just as emotional as I anticipated. Noah Baumbach wrote and directed a beautiful yet heart wrenching story of a family still trying to be one while the worst is happening to keep them apart.
Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson were both of course amazing just 👏👏👏👏👏 They really portrayed true emotions of what it feels like to go through a separation or divorce. There are so many raw moments between the two but I felt some of their most impactful scenes were when they were not together, but alone, and we can see what this life changing experience is doing to both of them, it’s just 💔
There is that one scene where they have that horrible argument in Charlie’s LA apartment and...Yeah it was hard to watch but at the same time I couldn’t take my eyes off the screen. It was intense, so real, and they both acted in such a way where I felt for both of them. Charlie and Nicole each have their own complexities and faults but I understood where both were coming from and it made me have empathy for both.
I can remember being a little younger than Henry when my parents were going through this and like Henry, was with my mom most of the time and seeing Charlie’s story, seeing his relationship with his son become so different, did make me break as well, thinking what my dad went through, even though we have our differences, it did make me feel for what he had to go through too so...sigh...yeah it’s tough. This was an emotional one to watch personally.
In the film, there are many scenes where I was just 😢. There’s one where Charlie is singing (and kudos to Adam because I loved him singing and it makes me excited for that one upcoming musical) but yeah that scene though singing ‘Being Alive’ shows just how hard he has tried to make things work with his family and professionally so I saw this as a scene expressing those emotions through song so yeah 👌 it’s beautiful.
There’s also one of the last scenes of the film where Henry is reading Nicole’s writing on the good things about Charlie, and that line, “I fell in love with him two seconds after I saw him,” and watching his face fall to a tearful expression made me go 🥺 Sigh...what a scene! <3