Siege Story

Clara 2022-04-21 09:01:36

When I first saw the title of the movie, I thought it was another revolutionary story with a torrent of great times. Unexpectedly, there is a film about married life under such a big hat. The problems reflected in it are likely to be encountered in most marriages, and have nothing to do with Paris. It's just that for every person in the besieged city, it is not necessary to go through a revolutionary mental journey.
1. Control: It has been said that the war of the world is ultimately a war of the sexes. The tragedy of the protagonist is that both sides want to control the other. The way the wife escapes from the present life by helping her husband realize his dream is essentially a form of control; it is better to kill the child and sacrifice his life than to succumb to the work of always pretending to be stupid and pretending to care about her husband at the breakfast table, acting as a He smugly explained that he was good at knowledge to a proud loyal audience, control... Likewise, a husband needs his wife to "talk" about everything, even when the wife is at her most emotional; today she wants to chase her dreams, and tomorrow she's lost for promotion. Total overthrow of the wife's expectations; the essence is control. We enjoy the sweetness of marriage, but we are all afraid of losing ourselves in marriage. We cannot reconcile but control.
2. Communication: When the desire to control is too strong, too much to prove that you are right, you cannot communicate. Provocation, anger, accusation, belittling, disregard. Only when the goals are the same, the eyes of each other have a tacit understanding, and they can even listen to the lunatic with a tolerant smile and find a common language. When I was young, I used to quarrel to express the desire to communicate. When I was old, I would just turn off the hearing aids indifferently. The audience is meaningful, and the participants are just tired.
3. Love: Love itself involves compromise and integration into each other. Control and inability to communicate drag people out of the chemical reaction of love. It is not difficult to understand the heroine's reaction at the moment of despair. The sadness is greater than the death of her heart. She really doesn't love him anymore. In the ivory tower, she loves herself more, she can't understand and accept his choice of life. So, don't be a full-time housewife easily, you will lose yourself, your expectations will be too high, and you will gradually get out of society. In other words, it will make him appear worldly.
4. Cheating: Cheating is to express dissatisfaction with the marriage, and both parties can make excuses. To prove that there are still some free lunches that allow people to enjoy the sweetness of temporary passion and vent their dissatisfaction with the damage of love in marriage.

As for bystanders outside the siege:
1. Only a madman has insight: the facts are all bloody, only a madman is so desperate to tear the veil of warmth. And the lunatic is very natural, he will only be alone, and there should be no siege.
2. Are women fickle when they grow old or are women the most realistic? Yesterday they praised them as the best couple, but in a blink of an eye they can criticize so indifferently, they are completely different.

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Revolutionary Road quotes

  • Shep Campbell: You just... wanted out, huh?

    April Wheeler: I wanted *in*. I just... I just wanted us to live again. For years I thought we've shared this secret... that we would be wonderful in the world. I didn't exactly know how, but just... just the possibility kept me hoping.

    [takes a cigarette cush]

    April Wheeler: How pathetic is that? So stupid. To put all your hopes in... in a promise that was never made. See, Frank knows. He knows what he wants. He's found his place. He's just fine. Married, two kids. It should be enough.

    [takes a sip of martini]

    April Wheeler: It is for him. And he's right. We were never special or destined or anything at all.

  • April Wheeler: I saw a whole other future. I can't stop seeing it.