01.21.09
Revolutionary Road
Wow I can’t believe yesterday when I buried my head in the piles of movies I almost passed this on. It’d been such a pity to miss out on this movie!
Based on a novel by Richard Yates (Thank God we’ve got movies I am too impatient for books…), it’s about a couple who met,married young, had kids, moved to a suburban house and how they struggled to make sense of the rest of it.
Leonardo Di Carprio plays the somehow “sane” husband,like most of us, who is not completely dull while has a sound sense of responsibility. Kate Winslet is the troubled wife, ex acting student who lost her meaning of life after marriage. One stuck in a job that seems quite hopeless and the other at the edge of a breakdown by the triviality of a housewife’s life. The only way to rekindle the passion of life is going to Paris and start it all over. In the process of getting ready things changed: Husband unexpectedly was offered a promotion and from there the career path seemed to clear out,meanwhile wife got pregnant again. Last straw added to the crazy plan of escaping. Eventually Paris dream fades away. Wife died trying to extricate the baby in home, by herself.
In the mean time they’ve had affairs each on their own, the mathematician neighbor who went crazy, the mundane(ordinary) couple friend they have, and the fights…the fights so intense u don’t breathe when you watch…
Movie like this leave you think for a moment, instead of going:”WTF?! it is an end already?”
I couldn’t help taking side in the movie: always thinking–geez this woman does not deserve him. Probably because I belong to this big ordinary mass who doesn’t really have big dreams. And to see people who constantly searching for the meaning of life is just a bit beyond me. They normally end up so miserably and what’s worse is they don’t find it either.
I said to Gordo:”well…have you PONDER upon meaning of life lately then?”
“Not lately,” He said,”I was busy trying to survive….”
True, when people are struggling to live, they normally don’t try find ways to kill themselves at the same time…
I am not sure this movie despises marriage: the “mundane” couple friend, who is obviously not too happy with each other; And the end of the movie when the murmuring of the fat wife becomes very thin and low and eventually evaporates in the ears of the old husband… It’s like a message—NOW WHAT?!
But nevertheless big truth to it.