I Finally Watched 'Marriage Story' and I totally understand the hype.

I'm scared of films that end up sweeping through award season as I hate it when I think a 'good' film is bad. But I was so pleasantly proven wrong with this one that I even let my mum ask all the questions she wanted.

Okay so yes, I'm sorry I'm a bad film person, I did a bad thing. But it isn't anything new. It's becoming a serious issue with a lot of new releases, especially if those new releases have anything to do with the academy or related awards. For a while now I have had this issue with things, anything really, TV shows, films, music, theatre performance anything which could become thrown into the popular-verse. Something deep down inside tells me not to watch it, because I'll be sad when it doesn't live up to the hypes or when I don't understand why this hype is around this certain thing and then I'll feel even more like a bad film person for not understanding why everyone seemed to love it. And this is exactly what happened, I chose to ignore the good reviews and the people that loved it and I held onto the one-off bad review and the one person who was so opinionated that they write an entire essay on why this film just wasn't worthy of all the hype. But then it was my birthday in the middle of the second lockdown here in the UK and I decided that I couldn't ignore it any longer, I was going to watch it, and pray that I liked it so I could prove myself wrong.

This is genuinely a brilliant film. And if I'm being honest I don't think I could even say why? I just know it really was great. It brought a very honest approach to a very honest thing that happens to a lot of people, and if I'm thinking of it from a writers point of view Noah Baumbach breaks most of the 'storytelling' rules that I've learnt about so far. He has these small events happen where sometimes you're told to make big dramatic pros occur and the Acts blend into one another making it hard to even see when each one ould has started and ended. And that is what I think makes this movie flow so well that you don't even know you're at the end until you're there, you're simply following the emotion of the characters as they move through it and feeling it with them, there are no big plot twists and no major events which make the audience twitch sides in who they've got their hopes in. As the movie moves forward you go with it. It's beautifully put together and I'm glad I watched to watch it for as long as I did.