Movie Review: Movie Analysis: Kramer V. Kramer

Kramer v Kramer is a movie filled with opportunities for choosing sides. But what actually matters in this movie isn't who's right or wrong, but if all the characters involved are able to behave according to their own better nature. It starts of by showing a marriage filled with unhappiness and ego and ends with two single people who have both learned important things. There is a child caught in the middle but this isn't a movie about the plight of the kid but about the dilemma of the parents.
Usually such stories are approached from the child’s point of view and shows him as unhappy and neglected. What we don’t think about is what if the grownups aren't really grown up? What about a family where everybody is a kid crying for attention and
And in my mind I had no other choice but to leave. At the time I left I felt that there was something terribly wrong with me. And that my son would be better off without me. And it was only after I got to California that I realized, after getting into therapy, that I wasn’t such a terrible person and just because I needed some kind of creative or emotional outlet other than my child, that didn’t make me unfit to be a mother. I know I left my son. I know that that’s a terrible thing to do. Believe me I have to live with that every day of my life. But in order to leave him, I had to believe that it was the only thing I could do. And that it was the best thing for him. However, I have since gotten some help, and I have worked very, very hard to become a whole human being. And I don’t think I should be punished for
It shows that a father’s duties can also include what is traditionally considered as a mother’s duty. A father can cook meals and give his child a bath and there’s certainly nothing wrong for him to put a Band-Aid on his child’s boo-boo. A father should have equal amount of duties when it comes to parenthood and shouldn’t just be babysitting his kids in between his other responsibilities. If we’re questioning gender roles, it is important to question both male and female.
It is important for us to question whether ted would have ever bonded with his son, without Joanna’s absence. Would he have learned how to be a father? Would he have been able to grow and have the kind of relationship he had with his son if he had never been forced into taking up the role of both parents?
Ted admits that he has learned that women do also have the right to pursue a career. But the final lines from his monologue put the blame on Joanna. He says “Don’t abandon your kid again, Joanna. You ruined