Michelle Williams was cast in 2003, long before the film finally went into production, while Gosling joined the project a few years later. Rating Controversy

The you want (funny, overly emotional, or highly analytical)

The exclusive power of these images is their refusal to explain. Why does Cindy recoil from Dean’s touch in the present, when she melted into it in the past? The film does not give a monologue of exposition. Instead, it shows us a thousand small cuts: the way he forgets to pick up their daughter, the way she rolls her eyes at his jokes, the way a bid to rekindle romance at a futuristic love motel results in an attempted rape (he stops, but the damage is done). The film understands that the end of love is rarely a bang; it is the accumulation of a thousand sighs.

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