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• Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story is an eerily accurate account of divorce. As someone who went through the process this past decade, I felt the film more akin to a real-life documentary than a simple characterization of marital dissolution.
• The same conversations with lawyers. The same surprise at what you thought was assumed agreements. The rush to protect a family changing right out from under you. The Invisible Man costume...the Invisible Man that eventually became a Ghost.
• Marriage Story is hauntingly beautiful for those of us familiar with the course of a changing family dynamic. For those lucky enough to escape such an experience, Baumbach's latest offers a way in an emotionally compelling and thematically consistent narrative.

The Narrative Dynamics of a Family Drama

Adam Driver's acting is one thing—resting it on a great story is something else. As The Rise of Skywalker attests, you need a strong narrative to support meaningful emotional growth. Marriage Story delivers a story light years ahead of the rest.

• A Family Drama burdens the experience of internal conflict with a sense of Overwhelm. While on the path to emotional relief, the proximity of objective and subjective concerns instills a feeling of heaviness into the narrative.
• The Objective Story Throughline, or objective perspective, of Marriage Story focuses on the area of conflict in Psychology. The Main Character Throughline, or subjective point-of-view, plants a stake in Mind. Both Domains concentrate on the internal: Mind examines what we think, Psychology looks at how we think.

Consider the lawyers and well-meaning friends, and you witness manipulations as the source of conflict. Look to Charlie Barber's personal experience (Adam Driver), and you find a man working his way through heartbreak and loss. The former focuses on how we think (you need to get laid, you need to hire a private investigator), while the latter centers on what we believe (we're a family, we're a New York family, she would never do that). The combination of the two within the internal hemisphere weighs heavily on the minds of the Audience.

1. This juxtaposition also begs for balancing agents in the external hemisphere from both the Influence Character Throughline and the Relationship Story Throughline.
3. Wife and movie actress turned stage actress turned television actress Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) challenges Charlie to reassess his justifications. As far as Charlie was concerned, Nicole was "happy," so why upset everything by moving out to Los Angeles? That shift in the Universe—of Nicole, and their son Henry, physically moving locations is the only thing that could have possibly shaken Charlie out of his preconceived notions of family. Talking and discussing options just isn't enough.