The Truth About Marriage

I really like Roger Nygard's work and hope he continues making movies. This movie was both good and not great. Roger's insightful questions and enthusiasm about the topic of Marriage and advice and perspective from his friends about their marriages and relationships were top notch.

The generally self proclaimed "Experts" on relationships, on the other hand, were a mixed bag, leaving the viewers wondering how anyone in their right mind would listen to or pay for their advice.

Would have been a better movie if Roger had focused more on his friends and his personal marital experiences.

Roger Nygard's The Truth About Marriage is fun, satisfying, insightful, laugh-filled and sometimes uncomfortable and surprising -- much like marriage itself. From the wacky and perplexing (sperm wars?) to the levelheaded, Nygard explores virtually every angle of marriage, revealing lots of worthwhile advice to keep marriages from imploding. He also introduces us to some pretty interesting couples, exploring how and why their relationships either worked or didn't. The greatest irony is how Nygard, who never married, became an expert on marriage, but his outside-looking-in approach to marriage somehow works -- and works really well.

Roger seemed to have literally nailed every point of view that exists to cover the topic of marriage. His cast is diverse, funny, smart and intriguing! Highly recommended for anyone who loves, has experienced love and ponders the idea of marriage! You will learn a lot and appreciate what makes the world turn round!

As a young millennial man, the question of marriage, kids and the whole traditional life is something that I think about a lot. Is it feasible money wise? Timewise? Is it sensible?

In Nygard's film, we are given access to a wide breadth of people - relationship experts, evolutionary scientists, sex therapists, and of course real people in relationships who tackle the big questions surrounding Marriage. The film exposes both the highs and the lows, while also illustrating more modern, atypical relationships too, all while keeping a great sense of humour about it. Fun, insightful, and truly illuminating, this is the kind of movie you may want to rewatch and will definitely want your friends...or maybe even Significant Other to see :)

"The Truth About Marriage" (2018 release; 82 min.) is a documentary about the challenges posed by marriage and all what comes with it. As the movie opens, we are dropped in the middle of a conversation with a marriage counselor, as if it's in the middle of the movie. Without any further backfround or context, the film makers go from one talking head to the next at a dizzying pace. Along the way we pick up on the fact that marriage for love is a fairly new phenomenon: marriage has been around for about 5,000 years, but marriage for love only for about 150 years. At this point we are 10 min. into the documentary.

Couple of comments: this is the latest documentary from writer/producer/editor/director Roger Nygard, best known for "Trekkies" and "Trekkies 2". Here he reports on the state of marriage in today's society. In and of itself an interesting tropic, except that what I watched was NOT AT ALL what I had expected: the tale of 3 couples who have been married some years now, and what has become of that marriage. Yes, it is in the documetnary, buried midway through, and covering about 15 min. but tjat is it. The rest is a non-stop parade of talking heads expressing their views of love and marriage and the power struggle that comes along with marriage. I must admit, this barely kept my attention, and it's a good thing this didn't last longer than 1 hr. 20 min. as I don't knwo I would've made it to the end. Bottom line: I was frankly misled into thiking this would follow 3 couples struggling with marriage (not unlike, say ,the excellent "Couples Therapy" documentary series on Showtime). It is anything but that, I am sorry to report and this wasn't worth my time.

"The Truth About Marriage" premiered in 2018 and is now widely available on a number of streaming services. If you are interested in the state of marriage in today's society, I'd suggest you check this out, with limited expectations, and draw your own conclusion.