In early 2019, when the movie "Roma" invested by Netflix won three small gold people, Netflix also officially joined the American Film Association, becoming the seventh member and the only streaming platform after Disney, Warner, Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, and Sony.
The iconic Netflix officially began to enter the film industry.
People all over the world are waiting for how the landscape of the film industry will be rewritten in this year.
Sure enough, Netflix didn't let us down.
In 2019, we saw the sudden rise of Netflix movies. It's so unpopular, but it's so gripping.
If it were not for the intervention of streaming media, I am afraid that the two-hour-long "Marriage Story" and the three-hour", "The Irishman" would not be put on the big screen, but from the word of mouth of major platforms, although there are "Godfather" trilogies and "Married Life" in front, "The Irishman" and "Marriage Story" are still widely acclaimed, although gangster films were previously considered to be outdated, although the 1973 "Married Life" has long been considered to deeply reveal all the cruelties of marriage, but Netflix has proved, Even if it is the subject matter of bad streets, it can still be shot with sincerity, surprises, word of mouth, and connotation.
This is because in Netflix's content library, it can shoot unpopular subjects at any cost, just to meet the needs of less than 1% of people.
Take Marriage Story, for example, which has been called the most popular film of the awards season.
Nominated for the Golden Lion at the 76th Venice Film Festival
He was nominated for Best Feature Film in the Film Category at the 77th Golden Globe Awards, and was nominated for Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Original Score and other multi-faceted nominations.
It is also considered by the industry to have the strength to rush the Olympics.
In this film, Scarlett Johansson cut her hair short, dressed plainly, simply, T-shirts, sweatshirts, jeans, plain face to the sky, and even a little belly, just like an ordinary housewife in her thirties.
She changed the cold, sexy appearance in the past movies, suppressed her beauty, and played a tired 30+ mother.
Scarlett plays Nicole and Adam Dreyves plays Charlie, a couple whose marriage is facing difficulties.
People who once loved each other want to divorce, not really not loving, but when hope turns into disappointment, even despair, no amount of love is diluted.
In the conversation between Nicole and her lawyer Nora, we can vaguely see the couple's past.
With Nora's encouragement, Nicole begins to recount her marriage, her and Charlie's love affair, marriage, and the process of creating a gap.
As soon as she recalled the past, Nicole began to shed tears, and even cried until she could not help herself. It's not that she doesn't love anymore, but in this marriage, her ego is completely swallowed up.
Charlie did not have a happy childhood, but he broke away from his family from his teenage years old and came to New York alone to become a very talented and talented director, running a theater troupe and performing on Broadway.
When I met Nicole, one was a young and famous teenage star, who was in a period of rebellion and wanted to get out of the control of her mother and family, and the other was a hot drama drama, a young director who had just emerged in the industry and was considered to be a star of tomorrow, two youthful souls hit it off, quickly fell in love, got married, and started a family.
After marriage, they jointly ran the troupe, and in the early days, Nicole's fame at that time did attract a large audience for the troupe, and gradually Charlie's talent as a director continued to show, and people were attracted to their plays and began to come not just for Nicole. This was originally a story of a husband and wife working together to create a better future, but gradually, Nicole felt wrong.
The signature and commentary of the play never had her name, even if it was just Charlie announcing her original words to the public, at the beginning, Nicole was still comforting herself, it doesn't matter, even if she becomes the woman behind Charlie, but her voice and influence are also through Charlie, there is room for play.
But as the number of troupes increases and the number of rehearsals increases, Nicole has to be a nanny, chores, dramatist and actress, and Charlie is relentlessly critical of her performances, making Nicole live in self-denial all the time.
You see, as a wife, good at all kinds of things to return, tidy up, and even make up socks, Cha Li condemned Nicole's rough leaves, as a mother, eight-year-old son often constipated, and dyslexia, which is obviously Nicole either did not take good care of the child, or was too doting, did not give the child more rigorous and focused training.
As an actor, you are naturally unqualified, less and less spirited, the performance is more and more rigid, and you have not exerted your full strength.
When Nicole carefully reviewed all this, she found that why Charles felt that his life was very satisfying and very happy, it was because all their lives were decided by Charlie, and Nicole did not have any decision.
Their apartments, their careers, their expenses, everything in their lives is decided according to Charlie's goals. The meaning and value of her existence is to serve Charlie, to serve the family, and only to be missing herself.
The expenses of the troupe have always been difficult, and their lives are only maintained, and the money earned is invested in the troupe, except for the necessary expenses.
When Nicole felt suffocated in her marriage and couldn't find herself at all, a crew in her hometown of Los Angeles sent an invitation to participate in a pilot episode of a TV series, and she was paid well.
This is undoubtedly a glimmer of life for Nicole, who is caught in self-doubt and denial.
She then seized the opportunity like a drowning man clutching a rope. But when she tells her husband about this plan, she is met with his ridicule and ridicule, and Charlie mercilessly mocks Nicole for going on a vulgar and tasteless garbage play.
Even Nicole has planned to bring the child to Los Angeles during filming, and even the child can go to school locally during the year, where Nicole's mother and sister are there, and her son can be well taken care of.
You see, I have arranged everything, I don't drag you down, I don't affect you, you can't look at me, I'll go outside and develop, this is always OK.
But what about Charlie's reaction? You can go, if you go to make that bad play, then our performance on Broadway will not bring you, and when our serious, connotative play is highly acclaimed, I will not bring you and your name. Because what are you filming?
Nicole said how much I wanted a word of encouragement from him, a hug, but he didn't.
Even after learning that Nicole had such a high income for this pilot episode, she deservedly felt that Nicole should devote at least half of her income to the troupe.
Nicole cried and said: "Only then did I realize that my ego never woke up, I just became fertilizer in other people's lives."
In this environment that Nicole had been in for years, she was almost hypnotized by Charlie. Even when she returned to her mother's house, she was still worried about whether she really acted in this so-called unpopular pilot episode, which was the bottom of her life.
Her mother said: People only envy people who can be on TV.
Just this little encouragement made Nicole let go of the heavy burden in her heart and began to have the confidence to shoot.
In the process of filming, Nicole found that she was very good at it, and even could propose changes to the script, and the director of the crew also agreed, and even revised it immediately, which made Nicole have a sense of strength, and her confidence slowly returned.
She understood that this was her chance to change her life completely.
She decides to stay in Los Angeles and is determined to divorce Charlie.
And the moment Charlie received the divorce papers, he was confused.
He couldn't figure out why Nicole had to come to Los Angeles and divorce him.
Didn't you feel very happy before? Are our lives bad? You want to stay here to shoot, a year can be ah, I also support you, after filming will go back, why do you have to divorce, you have to stay here, New York is our home.
I have to say that the character of Charlie in the movie is extremely successful.
He acted like an innocent victim from beginning to end, and he thought so himself.
He felt that his life had been completely ruined by Nicole's sudden divorce lawsuit.
When he angrily asked his wife why he did this, it was as if he had never thought about his cheating.
In the divorce war between the two couples, he is angry about why it is up to Nicole to decide now, Nicole said that the relationship broke down, Nicole said that divorce is going to divorce, Nicole said where she wants to stay, she can stay where?
How did all of a sudden everything change?
He couldn't listen to the Buddhist advice of his first lawyer. I'd rather pay the legal fees I know I can't afford, and I'd have to fight with Nicole.
When Nicole wanted to come to him and talk to him calmly, he completely broke Nicole's patience with fierce language, and the two of them violently tore each other's wounds in a big argument.
At this time, Charlie, like an incomprehensibly selfish child who fights fiercely, listens to what he says: As a young and accomplished director, I have a lot of opportunities and time to debauchery, but I don't, because you want to get married, so I get married, what did I give up? How come you haven't thought about it?
I slept with our colleagues, but that was what happened after you let me sleep on the couch.
In Charlie's view, all of Nicole's problems are not problems, Charlie always has various reasons to justify, he is immersed in self-dedication and sacrifice, but he has not thought that it is precisely because he has never seen Nicole's needs, so the two have come to this day.
Charlie, a man who looks good on the surface, loves to be clean, is very gentle with people, even in the troupe of interns he can take proper care of, extremely methodical, but also talented, is a young director who is dedicated to his career, dedicated and willing to endure hardships, and the awards he has won have proved that he is indeed an excellent man.
However, in marriage, in the family, Charlie always regarded Nicole as his appendage, did not consider her needs and feelings, and even treated his son, and he almost compulsively brought what he thought was good habits, good clothes, good toys, and good games to his son. Even if the son prefers ninja clothes, he also requires his son to wear the Frankenstein costume he prepared for his son, even if the son is very tired and asks to sleep, he will pull his son to walk the family to beg for sugar, because the son spends Halloween with his mother during the day, and tonight, you belong to me, you have to spend the holiday my way.
Charlie's biggest problem is lack of empathy, he's the kind of intellectual with character flaws, when he's single, his personal life is a mess, he needs women, he needs marriage, he needs someone to take care of everything for him, but he can't develop a relationship steadily.
Because he can only see himself and cannot pay attention to the feelings of others.
It is difficult for such a person to reap long-term happiness.
That's why Nicole cried and cried out: You and your selfishness are one, and you can't tell that it's selfishness.
At the end, they eventually divorced, and Nicole stayed in Los Angeles with the child, who loved the city and loved being with his mother.
When Charlie came to visit the child again, he heard that Nicole had just been nominated for an Emmy, and he subconsciously said: She is a good actress.
Nicole's new boyfriend corrected: No, she was nominated for an Emmy's Director's Award.
The ending episode is also very appropriate, Nicole crouches down to tie the laces for Charlie, and then turns away.
The end of a relationship allowed Nicole to achieve a better version of herself.
Charlie, for his part, may reflect, perhaps, he just feels lost and lonely at this moment.
Charlie accepted an invitation from a university in Los Angeles to work and live here for a long time. If he had done this a year ago, Nicole would not have divorced him, but if it had not been a divorce, Charlie would still think that this was Nicole's unreasonable trouble. He would even wait for Nicole to be frustrated outside, to become what he called an inferior artist, to laugh at her, and then wait for her to come home.
The biggest feeling after watching it is that perhaps in the process of women's growth, we have shaped our own archetypes from their own mothers, grandmothers, and grandmothers, who without exception compromise and tolerate in marriage, and they regard the achievement of husbands and children as the greatest happiness in their lives. As boys grow up, they also witness how their fathers and grandfathers treat their partners.
Therefore, the biggest reason for the fragility of modern marriage is not that more and more women are not willing to be free nannies, handymen, and cleaners at home, and are unwilling to make compromises and sacrifices for the sake of achieving men.
And marriage, as the Buddhist lawyer in the film who has been married four times and divorced three times, says, you will always argue about something, not for where to buy a house, or where for your children to go to school, and marriage is a long, constant process of compromise and mutual tolerance.
But in this case, how can a young and vigorous person like Charlie listen to it?
Patience? Let who let? The other party let it, I let it, no.