Of course, the reason why it is called Revolutionary Road, I think the director is still interested in it, the characters in that era had a little revolutionary consciousness, the consciousness of revolutionizing their own lives.
All in all, I was shocked when I saw it. The movie is actually a very simple story, but it can be made so heart-warming and resonates with the whole body. There are many details, whether it is from the dialogue of the characters, the expression of the characters, the body language of the characters, etc., I have a little chest tightness. The feeling is based on unconscious empathy for the character.
I think the director's skill is not only in seeing the big from the small, and arousing people's deep thinking from a small story, but also in that even if it is a simple story, its speed of advancement is relatively fast, and there is no sense of procrastination.
At the very beginning, Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio met. In a noisy bar or at a dance, their eyes met, and it was just two shots. The suaveness of boys and the independence of girls were laid foreshadowing.
Then went directly to the scene where Kate Winslet performed the stage play. After the stage play ended, Kate looked at Leo who was at a loss and perhaps bored in the seat with a complicated expression. On the way home, the two suddenly began to quarrel, very hysterical, and it was impossible to see who was right and who was wrong. The title is slowly printed on the screen, and the movie really begins.
But at this simple beginning, many problems have been clearly explained, the characters of the two, the hasty acquaintance of the two, the two are also considered handsome and beautiful, and everyone is envious, and the two have contradictions.
Then it was replayed that they started looking for their own house after they got married. The female agent introduced them to a House on Revolutionary Road. Unlike other houses, this house was built on a slope. Although the house is good, the slope is a metaphor for insecurity, instability and abnormality. Like their young couple, everyone thought they were a model, but a storm was brewing.
Leo means that his son replaces Laozi. He works in the company and once had ideas about life, but he is still dazed and does not have too many demands on himself. The movie arranged for him to cheat once, and it was very understated, which made him even more dazed. impression.
On the contrary, Kate's dream of being an actress is over at the beginning of the film. She already has two children, but she is not content with such a dull and depressing life. Maybe many people will envy her life, she has a husband and children, she doesn't have to go to work, she has a big house in the suburbs, and she is very happy. In fact, it must not be, especially for a woman who has a passion for life, all this is like a nightmare, she needs to wake up quickly.
The way to wake her up is Paris, which her husband once mentioned. If she goes to Paris, she can get a good job as a secretary in an international agency or organization, and she can support her family. Her husband can stop working and think about what she likes to do. Going to Paris, going to Paris, life will be very different. Kate sees the trip to Paris as a turning point in her life. Finally, she convinced Leo. They happily told their friends that they were about to leave for Paris.
Interesting things happened, there are two. One is a couple of their friends. After hearing about their plan, they were a little disappointed, but they were also very happy for them. But as soon as the Kate couple left, the couple's reaction just perfectly showed the prevailing values at the time. Two people are going to sleep, the man is wearing pajamas, the woman is sitting on the head of the bed, and the woman whispers, Wheeler and the two of them (that is, Kate and Leo) really have an idea (probably this means, forget what he said) , The man said, I don't think, what is this called, how can you ask a woman to support the family, and the man stay at home? The woman suddenly burst into tears, crying with joy, because she had been worried that her husband would also have such thoughts and hope that she would come out and do something. Now she is relieved, her husband has no such idea, her husband is willing to support the family, and she can continue to live the quiet life of a traditional housewife, which is great. she cried. The two slept hugging each other. Ironically, there was a scene before, where his husband saw two sons playing in the living room. He called the two sons and ignored him. He just stood outside the house and thought about it. Confused and helpless. This man later had an affair with Kate, maybe this was the most liberating thing he had ever done in his life. This couple embodies the grief of many couples.
The other one, the female agent is also a female neighbor. She thinks that Kate and Leo are a model, so she wants her silly son to meet them, hoping that they can give their silly son a role model. Of course, she doesn't think her son is stupid, but only thinks that his son has some problems sometimes. And her son, in Kate's words, was the only one who understood their trip to Paris. Later, it also pointed out the reasons for Leo's withdrawal. The character is interesting, but I find it a little awkward. On the other hand, her mother, although she is a big supporting role, makes me feel that such people are terrible in society. They are innocent and harmless on the surface, but their own concepts of right and wrong are deeply rooted, and they are easy to cause great harm to others in public opinion.
Leo, of course, was persuaded to go to Paris, and he wasn't determined himself, and that indecision manifested with the arrival of a good job, and turned into a complete change of mouth with Kate's third pregnancy. Leo thinks that the trip to Paris can be discussed again, but Kate thinks that he is a last stand and can't stay any longer. I think many people can understand this feeling. For example, you have already offered to resign, but the other company that you promised before doesn't want you. Can you stay in the current company? After you've said you're leaving for a month, after everyone already thinks you're leaving? No, no matter what the new job is like, the old company can't stay anymore, the heart has gone.
The two people were arguing, and the acting skills here are so good, both of them are good. And in the dispute, there is a faint feeling of Changling (Angelina Jolie's "Suspicious Clouds"), that kind of desire plus guilt, that kind of people who give you a hat of your brain to make you feel sick Don't turn over, a little bit of that, Kate almost couldn't stand it. Leo still seems to have the upper hand. In the end, there was a big reversal. Kate ran away and came back. The next morning, a good wife and a good mother usually made breakfast, quietly watched Leo go to work, and then went upstairs to have an abortion, and was sent to the hospital with heavy bleeding.
They later left Revolutionary Road, but the true ending is unclear. To be sure, Kate failed. Life on Revolutionary Road is business as usual, and a small Revolution on Revolutionary Road has vanished into thin air.
Many people say that Kate Winslet is actually a complete literary young woman, and Titanic is actually one of her few commercial films. Just look at her films after Titanic to know that. I have seen her other small film called Little Children before, and now I think about it, it is somewhat similar to this Revolutionary Road. A married housewife and a married, unemployed husband meet while raising a child and have a relationship. It is also dissatisfied with the status quo of life and needs to change, but the background of the film is contemporary. In the end, the man was timid, and the two failed to elope.
There is also the recent movie The Reader. The novel itself is very exciting. It is also very exciting to change it into a movie because of its special theme. However, The Reader can only be regarded as an art movie, a small production, which is very Kate Winslet's way.
From my personal experience, Kate is very good at performing the despair of the character's inner world, and is used to releasing the characters' vigorous emotions in a light narrative. He is an actor who can make the film tense. So in this sense, literary films are indeed a good outlet for her. Of course, I think her agent must also be very good, helping her find such a good film. And her husband, hehe.
Of course it can't be compared, but when it comes to young women in literature and art, there is actually one in China, and that is Zhao Wei. Many people have the impression of Xiaoyanzi, but according to her colleagues I interviewed, Zhao Wei is actually the most literary girl among the cover girls. She really reads a lot of books and has a lot of her own ideas. I like to take the initiative to strive for such and such things. In short, she is actually not a stupid eldest sister, but a very smart woman.
Going back to Revolutionary Road, it’s really not an exaggeration to describe the look and feel as shock, because there are many kinds of shocks. Seeing cool shots, there are visual and auditory shocks. Lu said the latter.
There are two versions of the plot synopsis on imdb, in fact, the content is similar, but the different versions of the synopsis reflect the different realms of English, which is really shocking.
Here's a shallow version: It's 1955. Frank and April Wheeler, in the seventh year of their marriage, have fallen into a life that appears to most as being perfect. They live in the Connecticut suburbs with two young children. Frank commutes to New York City where he works in an office job while April stays at home as a housewife. But they're not happy. April has forgone her dream of becoming an actress, and Frank hates his job - one where he places little effort - although he has never figured out what his passion in life is. One day, April suggests that they move to Paris - a city where Frank visited during the war and loved, but where April has never been - as a means to rejuvenate their life. April's plan: she would be the breadwinner, getting a lucrative secretarial job for one of the major international organizations,while Frank would have free time to find himself and whatever his passion. Initially skeptical, Frank ultimately agrees to April's plan. When circumstances change around the Wheelers, April decides she will do whatever she has to get herself out of her unhappy existence.
Here's a rap version: April and Frank Wheeler are a young, thriving couple living with their two children in a Connecticut suburb in the mid-1950s. Their self-assured exterior masks a creeping frustration at their inability to feel fulfilled in their relationships or careers . Frank is mired in a well-paying but boring office job, and April is a housewife still mourning the demise of her hoped-for acting career. Determined to identify themselves as superior to the mediocre sprawl of suburbanites who surround them, they decide to move to France where they will be better able to develop their true artistic sensibilities, free of the consumerist demands of capitalist America. As their relationship deteriorates into an endless cycle of squabbling, jealousy and recriminations, their trip and their dreams of self-fulfillment are thrown into jeopardy.
In the end I found that the shocking thing about Revolutionary Road was that there was a line in this complex version that directly pierced: Their self-assured exterior masks a creeping frustration at their inability to feel fulfilled in their relationships or careers. Beneath their self-assured exterior
, What is hidden is actually a fragile despair, and this despair comes from the powerlessness of feelings and life.
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