The rotating hour hand, crowded carriages, people in suits and leather shoes, wearing a top hat with a blurred face, poured out of the platform like a school of fish. At nine o'clock in the morning, flock to the various cubicles of the city on time. Such days are repeated mechanically, every day, every year, every life.
In the midsummer many years ago, when I was sweating and crowded in this 9 to 5 subway crowd, I first had the urge to "I want to go to Beijing". Just like April, the heroine in "Revolutionary Road", after having had enough of meaningless work, dull and indifferent life, and that stagnant marriage, finally broke out the "I'm going to Paris" fantasies.
Go to a distant place, to a fresh city, to find a lost ideal, and to live a different life. The heroine of the story, April, was inexplicably gripped by a dream called "Going to Paris" on a calm morning.
And her husband, Frank, a down-to-earth office worker who worked as a salesman for his father's generation, was obviously tired of this mediocre job. Even flirting with female colleagues to combat the dullness of life.
When his wife happily announced to Frank her dream of great Paris, Frank no doubt hesitated. He's a man, and he has a family to support. Even though Paris was his childhood dream, there were so many realities in front of him that he couldn't go crazy with it.
But once the dusty dream is opened, it is like an unstoppable flood. In the name of love, April finally kidnapped the man who married her because of their mutual passion. They decided to go to Paris together!
The gloomy life of the middle-aged couple was thus lit up by "Paris". They couldn't wait to tell everyone about this great decision to their neighbors, colleagues. The surprise, questioning, and ridicule that the friends responded did not dampen their pride and passion at all.
They felt more different and more excited to weave the Parisian dream. They have to resist the mediocrity, anguish and triviality that this life weighs on them. This is their revolutionary road.
After finishing a day's work, Frank rushed home full of enthusiasm. He was greeted by the sweet kiss of his wife and the play of the two children on the green grass. This is the most heartwarming scene in the film. The setting sun shone on them, all exuding the light of dreams.
However, the sudden promotion and salary increase easily taught Frank that Paris lost its gravitational pull. April's unplanned pregnancy further fulfilled the broken wings of her dream. No matter how the dream continues to rise, it is still just a soap bubble with brilliance, and it cannot stand up to the little tricks of reality.
Facing his wife's unbearable disappointment, Frank has his own reasons: he wants to raise his salary, buy a bigger house, and raise a new child... Behind his eloquent self-justification, there is a heart that cannot be faced—— The cruel life has already cut off the dreams and passions one by one. He has no courage to challenge reality. He wants to know the promotion and salary increase, not the unknown displacement. So, bye, Paris.
"Revolutionary Road" seems to show us, far from being a couple's "seven-year itch" from falling in love to quarrelling to numbness, but a revealing of the truth of life and a questioning of ideal courage.
Frank is undoubtedly the majority in society, and ultimately chooses to live comfortably in the established order rather than taking risks for his ideals. Buried in the fireworks, disappearing in the crowd, the days are getting darker and the ideal is getting farther and farther away. Faced with the emptiness and mediocrity of reality, I have to endure for a while, and I will persist for a lifetime, even if life is far from the appearance of dreams.
April is a complete idealist, and the shattering of her Parisian dream taught her to lose her soul in an instant. She has no way to compromise with reality as easily as her husband. She didn't know how to face this irresistible life. She aborted herself by almost suicidal methods, and the bright red blood, along with her dreams, struggles, and her life, fell drop by drop on the white carpet. Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, the dazzling sunlight on the Revolutionary Road is still brilliantly calm.
When Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, after 11 years, danced hand in hand again in "Revolutionary Road", the corners of their eyes and brows were filled with traces of time carving. They are no longer the glamorous and young lovers in "Titanic", and we are no longer the teenagers who dreamed of love so much.
11 years ago, the unparalleled love between rose and jack on the Titanic ignited countless people's yearning for love. After 11, the pursuit and collision of the ordinary couple April and Frank on the road of revolution can not help but teach people to fall into deep thinking about life.
In fact, we have never lacked a longing for a beautiful heart. We should ask ourselves, perhaps: How much determination do we have to break through the chaotic and oppressive web of life, and how much courage do we have to pursue the life we truly dream of?
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