Kramer vs Kramer

I just finished watching this 1980 movie called Kramer vs Kramer which won the best picture oscar that year over competition from the Martin Scorsese classic, Scarface. This is a movie about how a man comes to terms with his sudden status as the lone parent of a seven year old child. Starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, its an intimate look into the life of a young and rising advertising executive and how his life takes a turn when one evening his wife leaves him, also leaving behind their son.
For the most part, the movie focusses on the relationship between father and son. The day after the wife leaves home, when dropping his son at school, the father asks the son what grade he was in, he didn't know and at breakfast that day he cannot make french toast. But as time passes, the father and the son grow ever more closer to each other. The father's priorities gradually change and he comes to appreciate things he didn't know existed.
There are several moments in this part where you could sigh or experience moist eyes if you are the weepy kind.


Where the movie scores however is the fact that it shows real people and real problems. In the second half we discover that the mother is probably not as bad as she earlier seemed. Itt seems like maybe she has a point as well, You begin to appreciate the point that maybe at the point where she was, when the movie got started, she had very little options and that probably on making that bold decision of walking out with absolutely nothing to look forward to was the correct move for her and for the son and even the husband.

The acting is all fantastic. Another thing I have to note here, The Aamir khaan starrer, Akele Hum Akele Tum is a total rip-off right down to the last scene. Except ofcourse in that movie, in true bombai style, the hero and the heroine come together at the end.