Marriage Story

Rating: 8/10 (14 April 2020)

Near the end of the film, Nicole, who has a new love, hears that Charlie is about to move to Los Angeles to settle down. When she sees each other, she feels speechless. Then she chokes a little. This scene should be the most delicate and powerful scene in the whole film. It tells two painful things respectively: when a person has stopped expecting all the time, what she pursues has been achieved unexpectedly, and when a person finally learns to sacrifice himself for her, the person he wants to sacrifice for has gone. The movie gradually reveals the spiritual world of both parties in the conversation over and over again. How much concession the woman has in the marriage is how vicious it is in the divorce, and how selfish the man is in the marriage is how overwhelmed he is in the divorce. By the end, no matter which side of the audience is more inclined to divorce, they will not feel that the other side is making trouble or even empathizing with the other side.