Scarlett Johansson – The Film Ramble

Within the first minute of the film, Jojo Rabbit gives you the “Oh” moment. With a German cover of I want to hold to hold your hand in the background, Johannes (Roman Griffin Davis) and his camp imaginary friend Hitler (Taika Watiti) are practising their Heil Hitlers in the mirror, before he runs down the street in excitement as today is his first day in the Hitler Youth. His joyous face and childish motion in this silly scenario along with the upbeat music may lead you to crack a smile. However, this is interlinked with Nazi propoganda videos of smiling crowds. This is when having being swept away with Jojo’s commotion, you realise “Hold on a minute. Why am I going along so happily with this?” This smart ploy is one of cleverest scenes in the film as you recompose yourself and remember that you’re in 1940’s Austria.

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A couple of years ago, I decided to go and watch Greta Gerwig’s debut film Ladybird. I wasn’t sure why. I had only seen the poster, but the film never felt like one I’d usually see. A teenage girl from a religiously devout home in Sacramento coming of age just wasn’t a film I would ever be interested in. Yet, Ladybird had a real charm to it which made it one of my favourite films that year against all odds (and changed my answer of favourite type of film to good films). In the same way, some sad rom-com focusing on a couple’s love life didn’t appeal to me on paper either. However, Marriage Story is so much more than that.

While your dad will be sat in one corner of the room with his portable device watching Netflix and Scorsese’s latest masterpiece, your mother is likely to be sat in the other corner on her portable device watching Noah Baumbach’s latest work. The opening few minutes are incredibly charming. Charlie (Adam Driver) lists everything he loves about his wife Nicole, from how shameless she is to how she’s a bit messy. Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) then says everything she loves about Charlie, from how determined he is, to how he cries in films. Importantly, both are very competitive. Everything all seems happy and rosy, then it turns out these are just things they wrote for divorce counselling… That’s right. Marriage Story is all about a divorce.

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