The ideal road to struggle in reality

Kameron 2022-03-23 09:01:33

Finally found the "Revolutionary Road" that I have collected for a long time. The reunion of Leonardo and Kate after ten years is what caught my attention in the first place.

Fortunately, we have already prepared for it. The tone of this film is really contrary to the romance of "Titanic". The audience who want to relive their old dreams may not be able to bear such a blow. A couple who were once full of revolutionary romanticism, after embarking on a married life, faced various problems one after another, more and more acute conflicts, and finally went to perdition after the dream was shattered. Kate is dead, and the ideal of going to Paris is ruined. In life, many tragedies caused by realistic factors make people feel even more cold.

Individuals in marriage sometimes live a mediocre life at the cost of a lifetime of dreams. The tragedy of the heroine is that she has always been obsessed with her dreams. In the trouble of reality, she is powerless to struggle and unwilling to give up, and can only be destroyed in the end. American liberalism, in an almost insane form, was realized. Just imagine such a logic, it is difficult to hold in the Chinese social context. Individual tolerance and sacrifice are the cultural foundation of a harmonious society. In Chinese family relations, responsibility is destined not to destroy the overall stability, and of course it also preserves the self from another perspective.

Going back to the most fundamental proposition, are ideals and reality really so diametrically opposed? Matter and spirit are the foundation of human existence, and there is no need to separate them deliberately. There are so many pretentious individuals in the world, and how many can truly dominate the world? Most of the living beings have been honed in their own reality. Looking up at the kingdom of heaven in the world, why can't you be free and stretch?

It's a pity that even the young faces like Jack and Rose in the camera can be so slack due to the destruction of time... In addition to sighing, they can only accept it calmly. Reality never asks if you want it or not.

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Revolutionary Road quotes

  • John Givings: Helen's been talkin' it up about you people for months. The nice young Wheelers on Revolutionary Road. The nice young revolutionaries on Wheeler Road.

  • April Wheeler: I hear you're a mathematician.

    John Givings: You hear wrong. Its all gone now.

    April Wheeler: All gone?

    John Givings: You know what electrical shock treatments are?

    April Wheeler: Yes. Yes, I do.

    John Givings: I had thirty-seven. It's supposed to jolt out the emotional problems. It just jolted out the mathematics.