Bear with us through today's lunchtime poll which is NOT about whose side Marriage Story takes (the hot takes are abundant online and it's exhausting) but about which side you'd take --not Nicole's or Charlies -- this Q takes a second to get your head around but it's fun and totally worth asking for those of us who live for the movies:
If you had to divorce Marriage Story, what part of the movie would you want custody of ?
We couldn't help but ask Team Experience this question too so there answers are after the jump to get your started...
EUROCHEESE: I would keep the performances but also make sure Baumbach throws in L.A. for free, since he hates it and I love it.
CLAUDIO: Do I have to pick just one? I can’t think of losing Merritt Wever’s rhapsodies of awkwardness or the simple grace of a gate closing at night. That said, if I had to choose a single aspect of the film to keep, it would have to be the big fight scene, which made me relive some of the worst parts of my life. It wrecked me and then it offered the slightest hint of catharsis on the horizon. No matter its instantaneous memefication, I can’t deny how much it meant to me.
MURTADA: Alan Alda because he’s so lovely and I want a more comedic and warmer in tone sequel about his character’s adventures trying to find his lost glasses.
PAOLO: Screw it, I want half of the genius grant. I wanna eat something else other than TV dinners tonight.
CAMILA: The Sondheim bits and all of Laura Dern (can she defend me pro bono in this case?
KYNDALL: Alan Alda telling that three-part joke while Adam Driver tries not to cry.
CHRIS: The chaos of Merritt Weaver and Julie Hagerty's diametrically opposed approaches to conflict resolution.
SPENCER: It’s a toss up between Cassie’s pecan pie she doesn’t know if she made or Bert’s cat that you shouldn’t expect much out of.
NATHANIEL: Divorcing Marriage Story woud be too painful because it's awesome from start to finish. If I were writing that letter at the beginning of the movie about what I love about it I would need a whole notepad.
DAN: I would want custody of the surprising sexual chemistry between Ray Liotta and Laura Dern's lawyer characters. It's all over their body language and tone of voice when they talk to each other, but especially in how she takes off her jacket when he starts in in court. Oh, it is ON, and I can't want to see them duke it out in a more intimate setting.
GINNY: I would want custody of Adam Driver lifting Julie Haggerty over his shoulder like a firefighter. You know, for science...