Now I see his Revolutionary Road, about how Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCarprio try to escape the mediocre life. By this time I had settled for some time in the center of mediocre life. So feel again.
Faced with the topic of how to escape a mediocre life, everyone handles it differently. Frank was doing his father's old job in sales. He felt the emptiness and stupidity of his work and the lack of vitality in his life, so he used the low-level seduction of the female secretary in the office as a distraction. After losing confidence in his mediocre acting skills, April finally decided to face his heart and find his true life. So she proposed to Frank, go to Paris!
The interesting thing is that in this proposal, Frank is the one who really shoulders the mission of finding his own value, while April places his hope in his ideal life on his husband and is willing to sacrifice himself to become a European secretary. Another detail is that the last time Frank felt like he was "real life" was when he was on the front lines and April was the first time Frank had sex with her. It seems that women build their own value on love and men, which is not a specialty of the East.
So just like Kevin Spacey, who finally broke his cowardice back then, the days of the two of them were radiant and radiant. Then, as everyone can imagine, the real problems came one after another, the temptation for promotion (a man's desire to fulfill his father's expectations?), the troubles of pregnancy, and finally the two returned to moderate reality after facing their inner ideals. , and was completely torn down by the tug of war between the two.
For those around them, The Wheelers' fantastic decision was shocking and disturbing. Because it hits their inner secret - everyone wants to escape this mediocre life, but everyone collectively tacitly whitewashes peace (of course, this is idealistic). The neighbors are so ordinary that they almost disappeared, and the man who does not exist in the eyes of his own children, the only remaining passion is the secret love for April, his wife Milly, after hearing the high-spirited announcement of The Wheelers, the pressure of extreme envy in her heart finally Overwhelming myself, weeping bitterly, and in the end, I can only cover up my cowardice with the self-consolation that "they are unrealistic." Frank's attire is the same, with blurry-faced colleagues, drinking coffee, and making old-fashioned, harmless jokes, submissive and daring to face Frank's razor-sharp truth. The seemingly warm and friendly old lady of the landlady ended up snobbing at the couple, blaming their neurotic fantasies.
They represent the secular attitude towards idealism: while envy and jealousy, they cannot tolerate this idealism reflecting their mediocrity and cowardice. It wasn't until the couple gave up on the Paris plan that they accepted it again with a smile (I have to admit that I too must have been part of this "worldliness" at some point).
There are only two sympathizers, the mathematician John (the only one who really understands the couple) and his dad. One is a lunatic in the eyes of the world, and the other is a lunatic's father. One drastic, one compromise. It's normal, in stories like this, the lunatic and the idealist are just a fine line.
Everything is as April enthusiastically pointed out: everyone knows the truth, they just get better at lying.
Then the key question is: what is truth? The video doesn't say so. Let me discuss: Is truth is that all people want to escape the mediocre life?
I think there are two possible points here, one is "mediocre", if most people live a mediocre life, then most people are against their will, realistic, compromising, and dare not face their inner feelings . When we were young, we may have all scoffed at the adult world, as the famous line in Trainspotting said, "Choose a life, choose a job, choose a career, choose a family. Choose a big TV, choose a washing machine, a Ford sedan. , 9 to 5, CD player, electric can opener. Choose a fixed-rate mortgage." I once asked myself, is this kind of mediocre life that I can see clearly what I want?
The second is "escape", are we just escaping purely for the sake of escape? I think mature or sophisticated people might see idealism this way: an ideal is an ideal precisely because it will never be reached. Yes, life tires us all because of repetition and tediousness. Is it just a necessary hope to weave a beautiful vision for yourself, to have a so-called possibility of living the life you really want? And you have to wait until you have two children and two houses before you realize that you have lost the right to continue to have this hope?
Just like a question unsolved by revolutionary road: after going to Paris, what happens? Will they come back in despair at the end?
American Beauty is followed by Revolutionary Road, illustrating that the proposition about the ideal life has never been solved.
How I want to really face my heart, how to distinguish between compromise and reality, responsibility and cowardice, this is everyone's own problem. How to escape a mediocre life? If you're young and don't have to go through the lure of a high salary and the pain of a miscarriage, maybe you have the luxury of thinking about it.
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