In Reply to: Wait a minute.....is this a melodrama fest moving from one crisis to the next? posted by mr grits on February 9, 2009 at 14:52:23:
It's like my Dad used to say, tere's nothing wrong with Marriage, it's just the jackasses that get involved with it.
In a nutshell, the couple in question have a pretty damned nice life in a Conneticut suburb. It's not until you and ultimately they find out one is a habitual adulterer and the other a n'er do well narccicist that the real pain starts. The way the wife dies is an indictment on abortion laws in the USA during that time, but I'm not sure younger Americans who live in a country with legalized abortion for the last how many years can really relate to this indictment. On that point, the movie seems somewhat dated. Other than that.....as I said, very solid performances from DeCaprio and Winslet. Winslet in particular is turning into an exceptional actress......kind of like Streep was at the same age.
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