Kramer V Kramer has to be the epitome of a marital relationship gone wrong and the productive outcome and self-realizations about Marriage.
The movie starts with Ted, the husband being too career-oriented and focusing on the path to promotion as he closes down a huge account for a firm he works for.
And Joanne, the wife who has shown to be suffering and self-loathing towards life, that she's lost control of everything and she leaves the home.
~ For a day or two, it takes ted to realize she ain't coming back.
For the first time, he handles the pressure of parenting and things don't really look in a good stance.
Fast forward he's shown to struggle at the firm but he never leaves his child's side.
He changes his priority to the only family he has.
For which he's warned by his boss that if this ain't working he's not gonna be in the business too long.
~ Ted and Joanne's friend Margrett is shown as an already divorced woman who is going through the rough patch and the consequences post-divorce.
She has a good friendship with both of them and comes to help Ted with his son Billy sometimes whether it's at the park or home.
Quite a beautiful relationship.
~ For the third part, Joanne is shown to have come back after figuring out things after 1.5 years and demands the custody of her son to which Ted is baffled.
The thing which irked me the most was she didn't care to show why she asked for it, for most of it was straight away fact that she wanted billy.
They go to court and as you know the lawyers make it dirty with the framing of issues while examing both the parents.
It's a lovely revelation, that both the parents recognize their shortcomings and accepted without being selfish and egoist their flaws for which they were responsible.
The courtroom drama was awesome, both the lawyers had a great impact on the questions they chose to ask and represent, the corners they took and the slam they hit.
Obviously in the end motherhood precedes which is eventually the right decision, but this is where the movie has 3 morales right there :
1. Miscommunications is the major reason for the falling of any relationship.
People forget or tend to ignore the communication to such an extent that things become complicated, they no longer have confidence in themselves, which leads to misunderstanding and quarrels and finally divorce.
2. A woman's ambition, today it's a different story altogether, but yeah it exists.
The ambitions of a woman and the compromise she makes to complete and settle down with someone.
Coz it's the woman who completes the family.
She's the care holder of the house. She's the one who looks after it.
And often woman finds themselves in such a situation where the hollowness and emptiness eat them from the inside.
For sure this can be avoided through means of communication and care, but it was already too late in this scenario.
I can understand the fact but still leaving a child especially in his prime childhood can definitely create a scar in his life.
It's in no way justified but circumstances can put any person in any situation.
In that sense it's not about what's right or what's wrong, it's about what needs to be done.
3. That a father can't be a great single-sex parent.
Ted in this movie has done everything that a father would do and this movie also tries to fight against the generalization that men can't be good parents.
All in all, it is such a wonderful experience to watch this movie.
I loved it.
Deserves the oscar.
PS: No questions and comments on the acting, the screenplay, the dialogues and the cinematography coz it's perfect, I wouldn't change a damn thing about this movie. Once in a Lifetime movie.
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