Marriage Story Memes Have Arrived to Get You Through Life's Most Distressing Situations
Noah Baumbach’s Golden Globe nominated film Marriage Story is a heartbreaking tale of a couple trying to redefine their relationship at the end of it. It’s also a meme-producing machine that is slowly taking over the internet.
The film’s stars, Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, delivered performances that earned them both Golden Globe nods. The internet has honed in on one particularly harrowing scene of a fight between Driver’s character Charlie and Johansson’s character Nicole sit in a near-empty apartment to have a heated argument about monogamy and love and what comes next.
It’s heartfelt and painful to watch as the argument waxes, wanes, and peaks when Charlie punches a hole into a wall. The internet appears to be using humor to cope with the difficult emotions that the scene brings up. Twitter users have been taking scenes from the Netflix film and adding their own captions, making the argument not about betrayal and collateral damage, but about, say, baby Yoda of Star Wars, managing to take a distressing scene and make it downright funny. If only they gave out Golden Globes for tweets.
powerful pic.twitter.com/WBbZvsWkKP
— Ben Rosen (@ben_rosen) December 7, 2019
— mailman paul (@PaulBlanda) December 9, 2019
devastating pic.twitter.com/GcS5cXmqoB
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) December 8, 2019
#MarriageStory Kylo ren strikes again pic.twitter.com/qxevaMc7Y4
— annisa safira (@_sfrecha) December 8, 2019
AND WHAT WAS HER SISTER? A PRINCESS, THE WICKED WITCH OF THE EAST BRO pic.twitter.com/h0X169nda0
— olive mcgowen (@olivemcgowen) December 7, 2019
eventually all of adam driver's roles come full circle back to kylo ren pic.twitter.com/npW3sotdr5
— mary goore (@dunwaIl) December 6, 2019
— Mike Trapp (@MikeWTrapp) December 9, 2019
People are also turning to humorous memes to help them cope with the searing film and as a way to share their thoughts on the performances:
cried so much over marriage story half my ears is plugged pic.twitter.com/P3KPZ4MwH1
— merritt wever fanacc (@SCRlPPS) December 6, 2019
Me after the argument scene in Marriage Story: pic.twitter.com/0euLCmVaxc
— Matthew/Matt Cooke (@realmattcooke) December 6, 2019
marriage story spoiler without context pic.twitter.com/sTU3MoPTEd
— rachael (@benduartesolo) December 6, 2019
Just rewatched #MarriageStory pic.twitter.com/VanS8gXZGY
— Garrett McDowell (@GarrettMcDowel1) December 8, 2019
Others are taking the template of the film’s heated argument and adding their own political commentary or trying to suss out how personal the film was for Baumbach, who went through his own divorce:
This movie seems too intense for me. pic.twitter.com/HKRHiBUGHf
— Conan O’Bryan Yang (@bryanyang) December 7, 2019
Might as well use the emerging #MarriageStory meme template to weigh in on the discourse around whose side the movie is on! pic.twitter.com/BYKmh8OkFA
— Marshall Shaffer (@media_marshall) December 7, 2019
No other film has me warring with myself quite like Marriage Story pic.twitter.com/vQwSy8Vgea
— Cathy Brennan (@TownTattle) December 7, 2019
Then there are those folks who haven’t had time to watch the movie yet, but still want in on the Twitter fun:
Me when I still haven’t had the time to see Marriage Story so I have no context to all the twitter memes pic.twitter.com/r3IPJywZ9H
— 🕷 DracuLaCroix 🦇 (@sherlock_la) December 8, 2019