Marriage Story (2019)
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2020 3:14 pm
Netflix
ScarJo and Kylo Ren are married, but going through a divorce. This film tracks the whole process.
This is a beautifully written, directed, and performed tragedy. ScarJo and Driver carry the movie and they ridiculously deliver. Of the Oscar Best Picture nominees I've seen (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Lighthouse, Joker, The Irishman, and Parasite) only Phoenix was better than Driver, and ScarJo should win outright. I would argue that ScarJo is in the top 5 best actors alive, and I'm pretty sure I could make the case for #1. These two absolutely ARE the people they play here. They completely suck you in with their performances and you will have emotions regarding their marriage and its dissolution.
The concept of divorce sucks, and this movie takes that and amplifies it up to 1000. Their specific situation was clearly done to make this easier for the writer to showcase how much divorce can suck. Laura Dern, Ray Liotta, and Alan Alda all show up as divorce lawyers and each represents something different, but the same. I don't want to spoil things, but this movie really shows how our family legal system is broken.
This was an excellent movie.
ScarJo and Kylo Ren are married, but going through a divorce. This film tracks the whole process.
This is a beautifully written, directed, and performed tragedy. ScarJo and Driver carry the movie and they ridiculously deliver. Of the Oscar Best Picture nominees I've seen (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Lighthouse, Joker, The Irishman, and Parasite) only Phoenix was better than Driver, and ScarJo should win outright. I would argue that ScarJo is in the top 5 best actors alive, and I'm pretty sure I could make the case for #1. These two absolutely ARE the people they play here. They completely suck you in with their performances and you will have emotions regarding their marriage and its dissolution.
The concept of divorce sucks, and this movie takes that and amplifies it up to 1000. Their specific situation was clearly done to make this easier for the writer to showcase how much divorce can suck. Laura Dern, Ray Liotta, and Alan Alda all show up as divorce lawyers and each represents something different, but the same. I don't want to spoil things, but this movie really shows how our family legal system is broken.
This was an excellent movie.