Some of the Best Acting and Storytelling of the Year

Rating: 10/10 (17 December 2019)

Marriage Story Review:
Marriage Story is written and directed by Noah Baumbach and stars Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver as a couple going through a divorce. This divorce pushes them to their limits and changes them, but while this is affecting them they're also trying to provide a happy environment for their son. In about August, this became my most anticipated film of the year. I just love Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver proved to be great with his Oscar nomination for BlacKkKlansman. Also I discovered Noah Baumbach last year with his film While We're Young which I think is very underrated. He's had a few Oscar nominations and is just a great screenwriter and director. Before Marriage Story my favorite of his was the slice of life Frances Ha. This film affected me on so many levels emotionally. I don't know how one could possibly watch this without shedding at least one tear. It's so incredibly real and it's just amazing how it all played out. Scarlett Johansson has her best performance once again. I feel like every time she's in a film she just gets better and better. Marriage Story is written and directed by Noah Baumbach and stars Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver as a couple going through a divorce. This divorce pushes them to their limits and changes them, but while this is affecting them they're also trying to provide a happy environment for their son. In about August, this became my most anticipated film of the year. I just love Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver proved to be great with his Oscar nomination for BlacKkKlansman. Also I discovered Noah Baumbach last year with his film While We're Young which I think is very underrated. He's had a few Oscar nominations and is just a great screenwriter and director. Before Marriage Story my favorite of his was the slice of life Frances Ha. This film affected me on so many levels emotionally. I don't know how one could possibly watch this without shedding at least one tear. It's so incredibly real and it's just amazing how it all played out. Scarlett Johansson has her best performance once again. I feel like every time she's in a film she just gets better and better. The hardest part about this film is that it shows both sides and you can switch back and forth between who you like more and who you like less. But also you don't want them to split up. Noah Baumbach did great with this because it's a frustrating film. It engages you into the characters and story so much that you start to feel so much anger and frustration and happiness and comedy. The tone has literally everything and blends it great. Back to the comedy, this film has some pretty funny moments that helped with the depressing tone. Marriage Story just made me depressed, especially the very end, and it still lingered after I watched it. The very end just crushed me but it was also the best scene in the whole film. Just everything blends so nicely in this. Randy Newman's score is one of my favorites of the year. It's so joyful and sad at the same time. Listening to it before seeing the film I was confused how it would work with the story, because there are times where it sounded just so animated. It just worked perfectly. I also liked the aspect ratio choice of 1.66:1 because it felt more like a home movie. To me 1.33:1 and 1.66:1 work nice for a home movie feel. Everything was just so realistic in this and I didn't want it to end. This has become my fourth favorite film of the year so far. Also it's one of those films where I don't want to rewatch it too much so it surprises me every time with how great it is. I do that with my favorite films. Marriage Story is a film that should be recognized as one of the best of the decade. It demonstrates peak storytelling, superb acting, and shows that Noah Baumbach is one of the best directors out there. I really think it would be cool if it won best picture, screenplay, and acting. There are so many words I have for this and I want to talk about it for a while. I think I'll leave it like this so you can experience it for yourself. Marriage Story is another perfect movie of the year.
My Grade: A+