The story is about a couple who has been married for 31 years, yesss 31 years!Unbelievable right?? I am also married, but we're still at stage 9, I don't know if we're going to make it to stage 31, but lets just give it a shot!
The married couple, Kay and Arnold live with their routines as a married couple. Wakes up in the morning, Kay will preparing breakfast, Arnold will read his newspapers and leave to the office. On and on, until one day Kay realized that she wants to change her marriage life. She wants something real in her married. As a woman, I kind of understand her feeling.
Kay finally found a therapist to talk about their marriage and fix it. She pays quite a great amount for the counseling, and Arnold felt weird, since he felt that there's nothing wrong with their marriage. This is where the conflict begun.
There are only two people, but both of them feel different with the life their live in. Everyone has their own perspectives and of course arguments. So, to make her wife happy, Arnold decide to go to the therapist reluctantly. Steve Carrel plays as the therapist, a calm doctor with superb experiences.
One of the things the therapist asks is, if they have any sex fantasies? Kay says No, and Arnold says yes. The gap between them must be filled with exercise, the touch exercise, the hug exercise. As a married woman, I found this movie is an opening. Sometimes we as a couple tend to forget to nourish our relationship and just go on. Just like a plant, if we never nourish the relationship, in the end it will die on its own.
Kay and Arnold tries their best to fulfilled the requirement of their partners. But since they haven't done it for some time, the awkwardness appears, and at one time it makes them stop trying. Until the therapy session ends, the objectives has not been completed. Kay resent her husband, and Arnold stuck in getting no clue.
The couple definitely love each other and they tries their best to make it work. There are lines that I take from this movie, said by the therapist :
"This is the end of the session, you could turn back home and visit local counselor. You may fall not in the finish line, but at least you fall near the finish line". I guess, in some points you just have to keep on trying and moving, although its a step at a time, but at least we are making progress rather than sit, wait and do nothing.
I really recommend this movie for all married couple, especially who already had children in their life and caught up with routines. This movie is a reflection, the question is have we nourish our relationships? or are we like Kay and Arnold that got stuck on the process?
I have no doubt for both actors, they are proven actors. The movie flows so light, you will feel its just a short movie. I give this movie 3,8/5 stars!
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