Remember Leonardo and Winslet in that 1998 blockbuster movie? Ten years later, they reunited in "Revolutionary Road." Although this time there is no glamour at the time, it doesn't matter, now they are radiating the light from life and time.
The person who competes with you for this man is called life
-remember that "Revolutionary Road"
is very concerned about the translation of foreign films recently, such as "Revolutionary Road" to be said today, although this is fully respected from the original name "Revolutionary Road" The translation, but as soon as I saw it, my head full of third-rate movie scenes imagined it as love in war, how a pair of lovers throw their heads and blood to burn a great youth for the great revolutionary cause... Yes, the film had absolutely nothing to do with my imagination...the fact that it really breaks my heart.
Well, the book goes back to the main topic, say "Revolutionary Road".
The Wheeler family living on Revolution Road, at the beginning of the film, they are us - young and young, with many seemingly unrealistic but very moving dreams. However, when the time passed slowly, and they experienced work, marriage, childbirth... responsibilities came one by one, they gradually forgot the self who used to be full of fantasies about life, leaving only the busyness and running around day after day.
Both the Wheelers felt that their lives had lost their passion. In response, husband Frank chose to date other women. He told the girls in the office: "My dad used to work for Knox, and when I was little, I prayed to God that I would never be like He's like this, but now, I'm here, a 30-year-old man, still working for Knox, what's more ironic than that?" But
cheating only made his body passionate, but his mind was more bound by life. tight.
Such a person is actually us. Facing the reality, it is not that there are no waves in our hearts, but there is no way to break it all. A quiet life is like a moth, unknowingly eroding the youth's mood. By the time people find out, the spirit of youth is mostly gone.
People do feel emotional about this, so the word "unwilling" is often used by us. But in most cases, our "unwillingness" is so deliberate—the reason we like to describe ourselves to others in this way is because it gives us an illusion, which makes people mistakenly think that we have never changed, and that we are still the proud teenager. But in fact, everything can't come back, and we don't really want to break away from our existing life, but we just don't have the courage to face an already lazy heart.
We will be sad, sad and even cry over the past days, but in the end we will return to a peaceful and ordinary life.
This reality is always a little disappointing to say. Fortunately, there is another protagonist in the movie.
When Frank's helplessness in life reached a climax, his wife April saw the spark of hope again in the old photos, and immediately set about changing her life - "We go to Paris and do everything we want to do. "
The mood of the film instantly cheered up, and the plan quickly got them out of their dull lives. In those days, they seemed to have regained the extraordinary and unyielding courage they once had - a return after being lost.
It is difficult to always stick to one's own principles in real life and not to abandon one's original heart, but it is even more difficult to find oneself after being lost.
The repressed emotions at the beginning of the film seem so far away at this time.
According to the plan, they will leave soon, but life is always joking with people, it is the snake in the Garden of Eden, holding the happiness within reach as a temptation, invincible, and easily takes us away from the original direction .
Frank's revengeful spoof of work made him an elite in the industry, with promotions and salary increases coming one after another, and a bright future ahead.
He is us, he is shaken.
Compared to the low-hanging fruit and material happiness, going to Paris is nothing short of an adventure. Although in many cases, the word "adventure" can mobilize the blood of our whole body at the first time, but when faced with a real choice, I believe that most people will show their timidity. Even if they finally choose the latter, it will take a long time of ideological struggle. Well, who has the courage to act decisively?
Going to Paris, you may get a better life, but there, everything is unknown, and you have to work hard on your own. It is never a decision that ordinary people can make.
What's more, with the backing of life, his compromise just showed his maturity, making people unable to refute.
He chose to back off, but didn't dare to admit his cowardice, and the news of April's sudden pregnancy at this time just gave him a perfect excuse to hide himself.
It's just that he forgot that she was not us, she saw all this too clearly.
I think she was ready for death when she miscarried herself? Because of the tone of her voice when she called for help, it was so calm.
I love this woman named April. Maybe some people think of her as a fool, but I see her as the bright sun of April. The sparkle in her eyes when she mentioned Paris, her courage, perseverance, and unyielding... This defender eventually martyred her life. I have no intention of encouraging it, but it is indeed a decision that mortals cannot make. I can only say that this idealism The mind is too pure.
She was desperate for him. She insisted that she was the right one, but she couldn't make him realize his fault.
Her hysterical love can't change his languid heart, she can no longer see the one she loved in the old days, she is desperate.
If she can give up that plan at this time, they may be able to return to their previous lives, but unfortunately, the ideal is a fire that is hard to extinguish when it is ignited. She can't save him, but she still refuses to Life is soft. It's just that when she screamed that she didn't love him, I clearly felt that what she said was "love him"-because she loved him, so I didn't want him to abandon his dreams and waste his life in mechanical work all day long.
April dies, Frank accepts a promotion and lives alone. And I was actually ready to accept this ending.
If not, how will it end?
It is a pity that the person who competes with her for this man is called life. So no one can tell who is right and who is wrong in this battle.
Life shouted: I gave you comfort, you should just enjoy the comfort; and she, a woman, even if she dared to ask the most in-depth question about it, would at most shock the people around her at the time. In the end, people would still Back to the way he was, no one can change him.
Many years later on the revolutionary road, people who did not understand her took her as a talking point. The two men who love her still miss her deeply, and I know what else they miss - the unrecoverable youth, dreams, and beliefs.
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