A true look into a heartbreaking reality

Rating: 10/10 (16 December 2019)

This movie took me by surprise, I mean what could be interesting about a divorce? So many divorces surround us in our daily lives with or without knowing it, so why would seeing it on film change anything? My parents divorced when I was a young adult, so I spent all of my "growing up" life in a two parent household. When they eventually split, I only saw the outside of what was happening. What Marriage Story did is show me the strife and pain that can happen during a divorce from the position of those going through it. It's not stylized or romanticized like a lot of TV shows and movies can portray. It shows you the raw and unfiltered feeling that can explode amidst anger and fear and change. It drags you in on both sides so you truly can't say "Well, Nicole is right" or "Charlie is right". This, to me, feels like the truest-to-life portrayal of a divorce.