Sunday, April 27, 2025

Marriage Cops (2025) Hot Docs 2025


MARRIAGE COPS is a look at the officers in  the Women’s Helpline in Dehradun, India who look to help the couples in their jurisdiction that are having marriage  trouble. It’s a kind of forced marriage counseling.

This is a good little film that plays like a version of the self help TV shows we see in the afternoon.  I say this because the film is  largely various couples going into see the officers and trying to work out their differences. Some of them work things out, some don’t. Some are shocking and some are funny. It’s a real world slice of life where the counselors are trying to help the couple instead of playing to peanut gallery for ratings. This is kind of like what we might get if Frederick Wiseman did a show like Dr Phil.

I was amused. There is enough here that we remain engaged from start to finish without overstaying it’s welcome, unlike the TV shows that try to do something similar for ratngs..

Definitely worth a look

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