Realistic marriage drama

Rating: 8/10 (19 February 2020)

With much acclaim and hype surrounding this film from critics including several different award nominations. Marriage Story is a Netflix production film and one of its most successful films to date receiving several Grammy nominations.
This movie is quite good and realistic portraying a couple going through a divorce dealing with living situations and cooperating time with their child. Part of the acclaim is how realistic the film appears and the dialogue is very sharp, witty and serves a purpose. The characters (specially Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson) are very life-like and feel like real people. We could see the emotion in their deliveries as both actors seem heavily invested in their roles. A lot of it had to do with the acting as well as the writing.
One thing which have seen much acclaim from is by the apparent tear jerker reactions. Audiences claiming how depressing or how people were overly crying while watching this movie. Do not agree as this movie is far more tame than expected. It is a heavy and serious topic but there are many light moments. Compared to Blue Valentine, which it has received many comparisons to. There are similarities but Blue Valentine feels more depressing, emotionally movie and powerful.
As a whole Marriage Story is well good but perhaps slightly over hyped. Although it did make one think about real life issues and different situations upon watching the movie.