Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones and Steve Carrell are excellent and break new emotional and acting ground for all three master actors. Didn't I just vacuum that dust yesterday? That is how a marriage can ossify, degrade itself, as if consciousness itself were shot full of some sort of novocaine by sneaky subtle injections over the years, one feeling at a time numbed. We lose our grip on our passionate love affairs almost the way that dust slowly collects on the floor. The movie was about how we create our own heaven or hell, in the house, in the kitchen, in the bedroom, and in life. It acted as a sort of cinematic mirror to prompt me to reflect upon the many daily choices, or even finer gradations of volition, that make up a healthy or dysfunctional marriage or relationship of any kind. I am a single, 67 year old retiree, who has been married and divorced twice and this movie really touched me.
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