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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Extended Reading
  • Lela 2022-04-23 07:01:33

    A confrontation between ideals and reality, a challenge of reason and impulse. The world is so big that only one madman understands their dreams; the beautiful love finally fell in the mortal world.

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.