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Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale (2005) is a perfect, painful time capsule of a 1980s Brooklyn divorce. The two sons are forced to "blend" with their father’s new, younger girlfriend and their mother’s new, gentle husband. The film refuses to say who is right. The boys are damaged by both parents. The new partners are neither saviors nor villains. The final shot—the older son finally crying and allowing himself to feel—is not a resolution but a surrender to complexity. CheatingMommy - Venus Valencia - Stepmom Makes ...

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