Located on Revolutionary Road (Revolutionary Road), an elegant white cottage with a quiet and leisurely temperament. It is located on a small slope on a slightly higher terrain. It looks a bit independent from the surrounding cottages. The slope is covered with greenery, descending from the hut, just like a girl's emerald green skirt, which makes people fall in love at first sight, just like the hero Frank first met April. But how can this peculiar hut be as revolutionary as the name of the street? These two things, one positive and one negative, moving and still, are put together, symbolizing the life of the heroine April, which is full of contradictions.
April, played by Kate Winslet, has an enterprising and determined personality, but unfortunately, under the shackles of society and family, he cannot pursue his ideals. She was an excellent stage actress, but she could only stay in a third-rate theater troupe in a small town, and perform some unknown plays with some actors who were rambunctious. Early marriage and childbearing suffocated her career development, leaving her with a sense of unrewarded ambition. The place where Frank played by Leonardo DiCaprio initially attracted April was his uninhibited appearance and unique ideas. Similarly, in order to survive after marriage, Frank could only let himself get lost in the rigid and dull day after day, year after year. At work, the picture in the play of office workers wearing the same felt hats and similar suits, walking in the train station, fully depicts people's lonely hearts in the crowd, and Frank is Buried in one of these isolated islands. He couldn't play his strengths in the office, so he had no choice but to seduce female colleagues to relieve his depression.
April, who is tied to the daily laundry, cooking, and housework, pulls the heavy trash can, just like pulling the iron shackles that life has imposed on her. She begins to realize her own inadequacy and anxiety about the status quo. When taking the photo, she found a picture that her husband took in Paris during the war. She remembered that he said that the place was great, although she had never been there. In an instant, she felt that she could find an exit for her predicament, so she suggested Her husband quit his job and moved his family to Paris, hoping to find a new life. Of course, in order to convince her husband, she also inquired about the salary of a secretary, hoping that she could find a job as a secretary there, and she would support the family while her husband could find his ideals. When she proposed this amazing idea, Frank couldn't accept it for a while, but under April's constant lobbying and urging, the enthusiasm for life hidden in his heart seemed to be awakened, and the two couples began to look forward to a new life, making Plan to move to Paris.
After all, life and life are two different things. If you want to have a stable life, you should not think about life; if you want to pursue life, you have to give up the ease of life. So April, who cares about life, keeps shouting, is the purpose of life just to settle down and resign from life? Of course, many people who have seen this movie do not sympathize with her experience, they only think that she is unrealistic, full of fantasies, forcing their husbands into an uncertain future, and even cheating with neighbors when they are frustrated and frustrated. I'm sorry, but as long as you feel it with your heart, Kate Winslet's superb acting skills can make you feel the suffocation and shackles in April's heart. She yelled "Who sets the rules" in the kitchen, she rushed into the forest and screamed, etc. Her actions will give you a deeper understanding of her inner unwillingness to be ordinary and unsatisfied with the status quo, even if you don't fully agree with her thoughts.
Relatively speaking, does Frank only care about life and give up life? I don’t believe it, but men’s focus is generally more practical. When they think about practical economic issues, they are also more anxious, or it can be said that they are unknowable about the future. Men generally do not have the courage of women. Of course, the promotion just gave him a step down, and April's unexpected pregnancy gave him an excuse to change his original plan. It was the lunatic John in the play who was the most sober, and he said that pregnancy was not the reason to change to live in Paris. Are there no children in Europe? The author subtly arranges this character to make us reflect on the fact that the people who are excluded in real life are often the people who can see the truth of life the most. Therefore, John said to Frank and April, "Many people are empty, but to really see the Despair, it takes real courage", quite telling the story of their situation.
In addition to the contradiction between life and life, the film also explores the sincerity and sincerity of marriage. When Frank came back with a female colleague in the company in order to vent his anger towards his wife, what he encountered was the warmth of his wife and children singing a birthday song to him; and when he confessed to his wife that he had fooled around with a female colleague , happened to be the day after the wife had an affair with the neighbor, in exchange for the wife's unconcerned response. April asked him why he told her the truth, if he just wanted her to be jealous, what she was thinking about was her one-night stand with her neighbor, because she knew it was just a vent, and to put it bluntly, it would not benefit anyone. So is Frank sincere about marriage, or is April sincere about marriage? This is a good topic the screenwriter throws at the audience.
A beautiful woman is destined to have an extraordinary life, and a beautiful and talented woman is destined to have a difficult life. This is true throughout the ages. Although the American thinking in the 1950s was more conservative than it is now, trying to put April in today's society would also It may not end well, because life has never been for extraordinary people. Although this movie does not have the touching love story and thrilling great scenes of "Titanic", it leaves more people to chew on.
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