Malcolm & Marie — childish

I was sitting in my employee break room of my job scrolling through Instagram when I stopped at the trailer of Malcolm & Marie. Since covid I’ve been watching all the streaming apps. But this one felt different. I got excited seeing both actors. I loved Zendaya (Euphoria, HBO Series 2019) and John David Washington (BlackkKlansman 2018). And it’s been awhile since I’ve seen a movie or series surrounding Black Love. Everyone is pushing to show interracial couples or color blind casting but sometimes it’s just nice (and rare) to see two Black people working it out. (And that’s coming from someone in an Interracial relationship).

Malcolm & Marie (2021) written and directed by Sam Levinson (Assassination Nation & Euphoria) is about a couple coming back from a movie premiere that Malcolm directed. You soon realize that Marie is upset with Malcolm who’s drunk with joy and pride and not ready to hear what Marie has to say. Honestly they both really don’t want to hear what each other has to say but Marie needs and deserves to be heard. They both deserve to be heard, and even though both parties or at least one seems pretty fucked up, they yell, talk and cry to each other expressing their needs/wants/reasoning in the relationship that I’m sure relates to a lot of couples. It’s natural. We all fight. We all have secrets.

The powerful moments for Malcolm & Marie aren’t the fact that they try to be cruel to each other or get over one another when arguing . It’s powerful because you see the hurt. You see the fear. Two people so used to being dissapointed, but not at just people but themselves. Finding love and working through their demons together. Obviously the movie feels as though everything is in chaos in the beginning but soon starts to go down the rabbit hole of confession after confession to where we wonder will they stay in the end? Will we stay in the end? What makes us stay? What makes them stay?