Il y a bien sûr tout ce qui a rapproché Nicole et Charlie dans Marriage Story, mais aussi maintenant ce qui les sépare. L'une de ces lignes de fracture rejoint l'opposition classique Los Angeles / New York (*).
Charlie à son fils, tandis qu'ils sont en voiture :
— If we were in New York we could be walking.
— But I like that we’re sitting right now. I like to sit.
— That’s true, Los Angeles does have sitting going for it.
Dans l'extrait suivant, le couple s'efforce de remettre leur rupture sur de bons rails :
Nicole : Maybe we can figure something out between us...
Charlie : You’ll remember I said this to you at the beginning.
— I know you did, but these are different circumstances.
— I was anticipating these circumstances
— Mm hm. Anyway... Shall we try this?
— OK. I don't know how to start.
— Do you understand why I want to stay in LA?
— No.
— Well, Charlie, that's not a useful way for us to start...
— I don't understand it.
— You don't remember promising that we could do time out there?
— We discussed things. We were married, we said things. We talked about moving to Europe, about getting a sideboard or what do you call it, a credenza, to fill that empty space behind the couch. We never did any of it.
Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story (2019)
