Knowing that Adam Samberg had a role in romance movie is surely interesting fact (if you watch Brooklyn 99 and SNL, you know). But then I found the movie was much more interesting.
Celeste and Jesse are made for each other, but not for marriage. They've been married for six years and in the process of splitting up on the seventh year, yet they still spend all of their time together.
Jesse hasn't even fully moved on but Celeste, the alpha female type, really wanted to end their marriage. After one day, Jesse received unexpected "news" that makes him took an action Celeste never imagined, it brought her baffling inside.
The emotional toll of the divorce creeps up on her slowly, then hits her dramatically. She's cold, self-righteous, self-involved, totally messed up.
She knew splitting up was "right," but she has to pretend to be fine, though clearly she is not.
She is seriously struggling with showing weakness and being wrong here. Celeste's struggle with facing her mistakes, regrets and true feelings about losing Jesse is what really drives the movie.
The depth of the characters makes them so compelling, their love real, and their comedy so infectious.
I really love how the movie ended. The movie resists portraying a "failed" marriage as a failure, both of characters heartbroken but chose to accept it, and yes, they remain friends.
This movie was about the art of letting go but in funny and awesomely sad at a time. From Celeste we learn: Here's real heartbreak, and here's how I survive it.
Someone said that pain from relationships never gets better, but we do.
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