I don't think I was supposed to laugh that much.

Rating: 6/10 (15 January 2020)

Full disclosure: my parents divorced when I was 8 after my father had been abusive most of my life. He made my mom bleed on multiple occasions, and in one of those occasions, I was actually the one to send him to jail because i told the cops what I saw. Why am I telling you this? Because 'marriage story' was hailed as this 'dark depressing film'. It wasn't dark, it wasn't depressing. The music was melodramatic, but that's about it. In fact, I'm still not really sure why the characters got a divorce except for the fact the wife may have wanted to get under his shadow? I mean, neither of them were bad people. They were only coaxed to be by their lawyers. Maybe that was the whole point of the film-to show how lawyers can take something civil and make it nasty. Who knows? I'm still really confused by this film's hype. I thought it was a dark comedy and laughed a lot. It was ok. Certainly no acting awards are deserved here, but again my point of reference about a divorce is REALLY REALLY ugly.