If You’re Picking a Side in ‘Marriage Story’, You’re Watching It Wrong

Noah Baumbach’s new movie, Marriage Story, is about the end of the marriage between Charlie (Adam Driver) and Nicole (Scarlett Johansson).

The film debuted on Netflix last Friday, and the Internet being the Internet, a discussion eventually cropped up about which “side” the film was taking and who was “right” and who was “wrong” and that discussion seems like a disservice to the movie.

Baumbach, drawing from his own experience with divorce, doesn’t want to make us the judge in Charlie and Nicole’s custody case.

He wants to make us a witness at the destruction wreaked by …

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