Very Good, Not Great

Rating: 7/10 (26 January 2020)

Why did this film get so many Oscar nominations? Good question. Yes, I do think it was well done with some excellent performances, but not as spectacular as the Academy and others seem to believe.
One of the things that troubled me was I thought the character of Nicole changed much too quickly from being "wimpy" and dependent to being assertive and her own person. Literally it seemed to happen overnight.
Also, I wasn't expecting a film called "Marriage Story" to be about a divorce, but of course it was about a marriage leading to divorce.
I also want to comment on some of the reviews I've read here by male viewers. Several of them seem to feel that Charlie, Adam Driver's character, got the raw end of the deal in the film. One reviewer even referred to the "gynocentric world" we live in. This made me realize something: that it's in the area of children that women for the most part have an advantage. Perhaps it's the only area in which this is true. How anyone could call our world "gynocentric" when women have been oppressed and still are for centuries all around the world. shows a male ignorance of the particularly heinous type. But it was kind of heartening to realize that yes, there is one area of life in which women do have an advantage, or edge.
The film is worth seeing if you want an emotional experience because it does deliver that. Beyond that? I don't think so.