Two unlikeable people and their unlikeable kid get a divorce

Rating: 7/10 (8 December 2019)

In short Marriage has been destroyed by Divorce courts its the destroyer of Worlds but hey it's fashionable trendy loco and you wonder why there are incels and big pharma is rich by selling loads of anti-anxiety meds to kids from broken homes and parents have them to. Kramer Vs Kramer 2: the squeakquel revenge of the fallen judgement day etc. The father is the playwright, director stage company head honcho dude and the mother is the failed movie actor star of the plays. They both want big careers but have a kid it's one of those movies well done in areas. The lovey dovey actor stuff in this is both funny and cringe maybe that's the point. They are after all special. Man why were all the characters so unlikeable even the kid was a mothered little you know what, however he came off like the selfish parents that made him that way getting everything he wants. I looked at reviews such as "these people are privileged and white" which is racist in many ways, so black and brown people can't be privileged and successful huh?yeah I get what you are in trying to be woke you look worse. These people worked hard and have made money and get grants the mother may have well off parents most people in film do, black and brown people also get born into privilege and work to attain it so don't throw around that stale 2016 buzzword it's a trope in life now and a cliché and it shows a very narrow view of life. Also isn't Adam Driver Jewish? All people of any race can be privileged and narcissistic, go to Hollywood. I both liked and hated this film it made the father seem like a clichéd idiot that can't even pick what he wants to eat on a menu to the mother being an alcoholic that overtly mother's the son. It's almost 2d in its depiction of marriage and mothers and fathers yet they both want successful careers at the expense of their son yet they obviously love him. Then it would be 3d in its depiction of parents as they have honest reactions that they give each other as the divorce heats up that is fueled by divorce lawyers and the system which is very predatory and pantomimish, almost turning the parents and divorce into jerry springer characters. The feminist angle in this is funny that the female lawyer espoused that mothers are held up to a higher standard than father's seeing how I've seen women get away with smashing a glass in a man's throat with a "just grow up" from the judge as they do no time. No, women have no privelege. Most father's get screwed in divorce court to have a female lawyer spout out all that jargon about mother's being held to a higher standard almost had me fooled. Linda Hunt as the lawyer was good would rather of had a drama about Ray Liota Vs Linda Hunt divorce lawyer satire maybe? Make it happen Netflix. At times this movie had music that felt like it was in another movie like As good as it gets but this was not a happy ending it made no sense that your wife still loves you but she is dating someone else? I mean the reading of the letter left me thinking the mother actor was a lunatic that she would do things contrary to her beliefs then she confesses that she understands why her husband loved his work so much and neglected her because she has become him at the end lol making her look like a hypocrite. I think the Mother just wanted back on that carrousel that women go on in their 20s but without the reality. It also seemed as if the director took side mostly with the wife making her almost perfect and her problems were not focused on enough in the movie. neither of the characters had any self awareness either which is a writing problem these days. It had mixed messages to be honest you know when Patrick Bateman says,"this confession has meant nothing" in American Psycho? I felt that at the end that the directors confession about marriage meant nothing. No new information was found. I felt jipped out of a profound message that it was just some pretentious socialites complaining about life whilst off screen some homeless guy fights a rat over a slice of pizza. They should have added that guy into the mix. Overrated but at least better than most Netflix movies which are shocking bland.