I vehemently disagree.. Life isn't that way, she had sealed the deal and called it a close; did u even see her reactions and comment when he went to her office to break the news to her about his invention getting the hit? She mocked him of borrowing a suit to come see her, and reiterated it was over between them and only had 2minutes to say what ever the hell he had to say? Did u watch that part? Or perhaps you skipped it. She had called it a close, and even started another relationship with her ex guy..

Bitsy:



I kinda agree with you, personally I believe Robert frustrated her out of that marriage. She lost "EVERYTHING" because of his selfish dream. He should have gotten a steady job to support the family expenses while nursing his dream on the side.

No doubt, cookie has anger mgt issues, but Robert should've understood the emotions she was feeling and went back to her after he won the contract.

I'm with Cookie on this, when she said to him on the yatch that He didn't fight for her.

life isn't like that brother; Roberts would have been so stupid and foolish and ungrateful should he had left Deborah to go back to mel, that wouldn't be a good move...
Mel had anger management issues, the guy fought for Her, Remember when she asked him to leave; he refused, until she threatened to wreck hell on him and turn to her demon if he doesn't, he had to, so he doesn't see her getting hurt again..
Even at the divorce table, he was pleading and still telling her he never cheated.. How else do u want him to fight? I guess to use a gun to her head and threaten her to tie a tape around their two..

That guy is so good and has a wonderful heart, he has some blame like the previous commenters wrote, not supporting her then, and perhaps cheating at the first instance (but c'mon, they were teenagers and knew little) , who hasn't made any mistake before?

But all in all, Mel had all the blame; it's quite a sad one and very sensational so to say; it was really an eye opener, so sorry for them it had to end that way..

I really have very little to blame to put on the guys side, u really can't eat ur cake and have it. That's life

LordsApostle:
I am not the movie type, have only watched one movie the whole of this year; but I just had to see this and it was worth every bit of it.

Good to know.

LordsApostle:
If u pretty and stay around my axis PH, you can come collect the original movie; unadulterated..

Are serious right now?


Anyway, no thanks, I'll pass.

As me never watch the movie make I read una comments maybe I will deduce what really happened in this particular movie acrimony

megareal:
The critics spoiled it for me. After their terrible reviews, I just don't feel like watching the movie at all.

Total turn off, got me thinking if its actually the same movie peeps are discussing here.

THERE IS ONE COMMENT I'M YET TO SEE ON THIS "ACRIMONY" ISSUE

ACRIMONY IS A ONE-SIDED STORY

That aside, d guy is a con artiste and d girl is jes too dull and naive.

Oh! And finally, "you do not negotiate with crazy" is my favorite line

Colourich:

I gat u babe

swagguElite:


Thank you! this is exactly one of my points. he never for once attempted to get a side job to help his wife doing two jobs! ...which can a toll on women. imagine a woman doing two jobs she will definitely be stressed n get older than her age. under this same condition ...I blame Taraji Henson for not forcing her husband to get a side job. how can be one be working on battery
for more than 12years. Even when he was given an opportunity to showcase his work at d veri end. I witnessed that he doesn't even hv a prototype that the company can work wit n start from there. so what was he working on for so long?!.

secondly, one of the comments up there which I read started that she was obsessed with the guy n should hv left him be. she has sacrificed enough to enjoy the rest of her life with him. Imagine she lost her womb coz the guy was cheating on her with anoda lady. (I know yu might say it was her anger that coz that nt the guy) but ask yourself 2 questions ...(1) if the guy wasn't cheating woud she have done wat she did?! (2) if it wasn't dat she really loved the guy don't you think she would hv gotten a gun to kill him or get a knife to stab or cut his dick off ... its not like you don't read d news ...girlfriends cut off dick of cheating boyfriends anyhow nowadays!
Instead Taraji did not shoot him or cut his dick off but smashed his sleeping truck ..which we all know that that cannot kill him.

thirdly, this is a general question! ... put yourself in the shoes of Taraji Henson _wont you have given up on his battery after such a long time after all your family hv been against you from the beginning n you hv been working two jobs n also been ever faithful to a husband who hv cheated before ...won't you have also given up after 16yrs being in that marriage ah ahnn! think am nau!

fourthly, even though I blame both of them for having faults in their actions n inactions I still ponder on to blame Taraji more for not killing the guy n the lady n thereafter kill herself ...so that God will judge them n not us here on nairaland!

but what can we say ...it is a movie ... a brilliant one in fact. Tyler Perry made an ace on this one.

abeg..the gal has anger issues.....do you know how many times I have been cheated upon...did I die?...so because someone cheated on you... you want to kill yourself....the guy cheated during relationship and never cheated during marriage... she just assumed because of what she found out..she divorced him based on assumptions and pressure from her family


two things to learn

think before you act
live with whatever your actions are

learn to cut your loses
never based your opinion on assumptions..unless I catch anyone red-handed..I always give people benefit of doubt


the gal bleeped up


but that guy lazy no be small..he just let the gal carry the whole load

she failed to learn from.moses in the Bible... he led the children of is isreal close to 40 years both he himself did not get to the promise land

Tyler Perry nailed it on this....but this movie don cos kasala for my house....the ladies see d guy as a monster...d men see d guy as a saint to the point me sef i no knw which angle to look am again.. The man did what many men wouldnt do...as well as d woman

kfrosh:
If you watch the movie non-judgementally with an open mind, both of them are to blame but the lady has the most blame. The man ignored little things he should have been doing while in the relationship. He was a bit selfish, he shouldn't have ignored little things he could have done to make the wife happy while broke.
There's both short term dream and long term dream. While working on his batteries, he could have support his home with some side jobs too, his own only worries was his batteries and batteries alone leaving all burden on the wife working two,three jobs.
He could have also showered more love to his wife while at it. So many things to learn from the movies.
The film also tells us that being a good man or good woman doesn't mean you'll reap the dividends of being good.

You've never had a big dream, have you? Everything pales into insignificance at the thought of the possibility of achieving it.

LordsApostle:
If u pretty and stay around my axis PH, you can come collect the original movie; unadulterated..

There's no way you'll like what you'll see if she honours the invite. She's practically deformed.

MariaLavina:
I'm going to see this movie

Pls do cos u gonna love it

If you say Robert is blameless, then you lack empathy. Keep gender aside, and make an unbiased judgement. Both of them share the blame and the lady was only being human.

I think the side chick knew what she was doing by intensionally leaving her wallet in the man's truck because I still can't understand why she didn't realize that her wallet containing her person stuff wasn't with her.

what about the posting of pictures, maybe it was a show off just to spite the woman.

Clumsy writing. Taraji wasted her talents on this bloated drama.

My brodas its jst a movie dats why we can blame d lady... picture d event as a real life scenario. A man u spent all your insurance inheritance on, at the brink of costing you your mum's house, he also jeopardized your sisters and their spouses business costing dem their biggest client by selfishly abandoning a scheduled delivery without making a call for some1 to ensure/continue the delivery knowing fully well wat is at stake if the 11am deadline is not met.... upon dat, he went to make a presentation and came back home telling you he rejected an offer of 800k which could ordinarily put an end to all ur mystery haba.. is dat not symptom of being jinxed... d relationship and empty promises frustrated the lady..
BOTTOM LINE IS some relationship are jst nt meant to be dats y dey fail at moment of trial and hardship, d guy might neva hit it if not for d ex he cheated wit back den

Those saying the man has no blame.... Are only seeing from one side

The major fault isn't even highlighted

It wasn't about the money for cookie

It was about him

He went ahead and did all the things he promised cookie to the other lady

That was why she was mad

Same building
Same yacht name
Wedding gown

He could have done something else..... It was what got her to that stage of irreversibility.... Some might say it's nothing... But with what she's been thru

She had her faults too.... But no one or very few would have put up with him all these years.... That guy was a loser.... He was a con artist

And in real life... It doesn't work that way... Been applying for same thing.. Same company for about 30 years.... Who does that.... While you just useless doing nothing else to support a woman working her ass off

She had every right to be mad

He went ahead... Married same gal that was the cause of her losing her womb... And giving her the same life he promised her.... It was the perfect finale... They both dead... Even the other lady should be dead.

To add to it... What killed her pass.... He was gonna have a baby
Mehn, he doesn't deserve to get off like that in cookie's books

She divorced him year.... But the dude did not even blink when he made it... Engaged the other lady.... That was just there for him for a minute

The lady targeted him... Dropping her wallet was to destroy his home.... She watched their videos
She wants that... And she was in a position to have that... She's the real mvp in the movie... She's alive... Now a widow... She gets to inherit it all

Shugavee:
I totally agree with you,,, I hv watched that movie more than twice trying to look for how to fault him but really tho the man is better than so many men out there,,, the woman lost with the work of her hands,,, cause other than cheating ones he did nothing else.. please I don’t wanna argue,,, if u don’t agree ,,, good! Move ahead

Thought you agreed with the OP.

kfrosh:
If you watch the movie non-judgementally with an open mind, both of them are to blame but the lady has the most blame. The man ignored little things he should have been doing while in the relationship. He was a bit selfish, he shouldn't have ignored little things he could have done to make the wife happy while broke.
There's both short term dream and long term dream. While working on his batteries, he could have support his home with some side jobs too, his own only worries was his batteries and batteries alone leaving all burden on the wife working two,three jobs.
He could have also showered more love to his wife while at it. So many things to learn from the movies.
The film also tells us that being a good man or good woman doesn't mean you'll reap the dividends of being good.

but you realize he couldn't get a job because of the criminal records and not laziness?

Bitsy:



I kinda agree with you, personally I believe Robert frustrated her out of that marriage. She lost "EVERYTHING" because of his selfish dream. He should have gotten a steady job to support the family expenses while nursing his dream on the side.

No doubt, cookie has anger mgt issues, but Robert should've understood the emotions she was feeling and went back to her after he won the contract.

I'm with Cookie on this, when she said to him on the yatch that He didn't fight for her.

Really, he should have went back to her? he didn't fight for her?

Robert pleaded with him all the time till they got that house where they divorced.. he even pleaded with her right there but she refused.


I don't know whether you people think divorce is child's play. When you divorce your spouse everything between you two formally cease to exist.

If not for Diana, we all know Roberts wouldn't have made it later on, so how exactly do you expect him to leave her for Melinda who chased him out?
Even when he was offering the 10m to Melinda she told them they can never be together again.


She spent $1m on him and he gave her $10m, tell me how exactly Robert is still wicked?


Simple question for you, if Robert didn't make it later on would Melinda have wanted him back?

I believe so too

GrabHisBalls:
There's no way you'll like what you'll see if she honours the invite. She's practically deformed.

Tyler Perry and his bias movies, he is always about favoring the men and painting the women in bad light.

Could not get a professional job, not side jobs.

Hanseel1:


but you realize he couldn't get a job because of the criminal records and not laziness?

We tend to forget what led to her sudden action, though she faulted her family member that persuaded her for a divorce due to the purse that was seen in the truck.

Won't they have been together if actually her sisters didn't push her to the wall?

Won't she have been the beneficiary of the outcome of Robert success?

Honestly, when trust is lost in a home, an element of divorce could be clearly involved.

JohnnyPalmer:
Those saying the man has no blame.... Are only seeing from one side

The major fault isn't even highlighted

It wasn't about the money for cookie

It was about him

He went ahead and did all the things he promised cookie to the other lady

That was why she was mad

Same building
Same yacht name
Wedding gown

He could have done something else..... It was what got her to that stage of irreversibility.... Some might say it's nothing... But with what she's been thru

She had her faults too.... But no one or very few would have put up with him all these years.... That guy was a loser.... He was a con artist

And in real life... It doesn't work that way... Been applying for same thing.. Same company for about 30 years.... Who does that.... While you just useless doing nothing else to support a woman working her ass off

She had every right to be mad

He went ahead... Married same gal that was the cause of her losing her womb... And giving her the same life he promised her.... It was the perfect finale... They both dead... Even the other lady should be dead.

To add to it... What killed her pass.... He was gonna have a baby
Mehn, he doesn't deserve to get off like that in cookie's books

She divorced him year.... But the dude did not even blink when he made it... Engaged the other lady.... That was just there for him for a minute

The lady targeted him... Dropping her wallet was to destroy his home.... She watched their videos
She wants that... And she was in a position to have that... She's the real mvp in the movie... She's alive... Now a widow... She gets to inherit it all

Wow! You nailed it.

Best analysis so far.

Hanseel1:


but you realize he couldn't get a job because of the criminal records and not laziness?

Then how come he eventually realized he could do odd jobs after the Lady kicked him out?

Bitsy:



I kinda agree with you, personally I believe Robert frustrated her out of that marriage. She lost "EVERYTHING" because of his selfish dream. He should have gotten a steady job to support the family expenses while nursing his dream on the side.

No doubt, cookie has anger mgt issues, but Robert should've understood the emotions she was feeling and went back to her after he won the contract.

I'm with Cookie on this, when she said to him on the yatch that He didn't fight for her

Did u stop to think maybe he was equally as exhausted from the relationship as she was...

kfrosh:
If you watch the movie non-judgementally with an open mind, both of them are to blame but the lady has the most blame. The man ignored little things he should have been doing while in the relationship. He was a bit selfish, he shouldn't have ignored little things he could have done to make the wife happy while broke.
There's both short term dream and long term dream. While working on his batteries, he could have support his home with some side jobs too, his own only worries was his batteries and batteries alone leaving all burden on the wife working two,three jobs.
He could have also showered more love to his wife while at it. So many things to learn from the movies.
The film also tells us that being a good man or good woman doesn't mean you'll reap the dividends of being good.

Thank you!... at least you're not biased

GrabHisBalls:
If you say Robert is blameless, then you lack empathy. Keep gender aside, and make an unbiased judgement. Both of them share the blame and the lady was only being human.

Agreed she was only been human and yes they are both to be blamed however she shouldn't have goon ahead to cause trouble for Robert and the fiancee it did nothing but bring them closer to each other, maybe leaving with what she was offered would have made him realise what he had lost...