Ten years later, "Revolutionary Road", which had only received three nominations, lost ground in front of a four-star film such as "Slumdog Millionaire". But it doesn't matter, Oscar is nothing.
ten years. To paraphrase an already abusive sentence, how many years can life be? I was almost intimidated by the calculations-I was only 14 years old when I watched "TITANIC". 14 years old! A distant age that can't be reached by imagination and memories.
Ten years are put on others, and the changes are the same. The high-spirited painter Jack became a boring office worker Frank with a slight blessing. The eldest lady Rose, who was round and jade, became a housewife April with a deep forehead. The lover who stood on the bow and looked at each other affectionately became a lover who lived in the revolution. Ordinary couples at the corner of the road are making noise every day. Ten years, Bai Ju, Baiyun Canggu, watching Kate Winslet, who is truly beautiful in "The Reader", can't be exaggerated.
But I must also admit that the years did not make Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet grow old in vain.
"Revolutionary Road" is definitely the best movie of 2008. none of them.
At the end of the film, the cold piano sound is still in my ears, and I can't say anything. The director asked a lot of questions and threw them before us, but didn't give a single answer.
I remembered that before our best friend went abroad, we sat in a food stall and talked about the road of life all night. I said, do you remember what I said in high school? Even if I don’t want a family or marriage, I still have my own career. I don't think so now. At the age of 24, my ideal for the future has become the first to be healthy, the second to have a happy family, and the third is to have a job that pays me enough to travel every year. As for the content of the work, as long as it has some meaning to the society, it is not a waste of resources on the earth. How do I feel that my ideas have begun to move closer to the direction of my parents? Am I getting old? My friend smiled, I think so now.
Later, my mother's comment on this was that this was a manifestation of mature thinking.
But when I write this now, why do I suddenly feel sad.
Just like when they first met, the humorous and wise teenagers talked about Paris, and the sweet-smiling girl dreamed of the stage. Ten years later, Frank looked like a standard office worker, with a suit, tie, and briefcase, flipping through newspapers on the commuter train, and fooling around with work in the office. He once vowed not to be a person like his father, but now he is exactly the same person as his father, a real joke. When he said this, his face made the world bleak and lonely. Trying to play the image of a good husband and father who earns money to support the family, and occasionally comes home with a guilty conscience, and the wife prepares for a surprise and is moved by tears. Paris? It was just a young and frivolous dream. Whoever has such a dream at this age has become a ridiculous thing.
But some people can't live without dreams. And this man is just his wife. Cooking, washing, and taking out the trash, April’s daily repetitive procedures all show the image of her housewife. Occasionally participating in the crappy country stage drama, in the face of the dream of becoming an actor, is clearly a satire. She imagined that she could start a completely different life when she went to Paris, instead of aging in the copy paste of life day after day, she could open up a passionate and colorful world. Unfortunately, her husband’s unexpected promotion and her unexpected pregnancy disrupted her perfect plan. In the end, at the end of the road to revolution, April failed and also ushered in death.
Did any of them think wrong or did something wrong? No one.
We have all been young and frivolous, and then reality will flatten our edges and corners with various setbacks. When I was in high school, I always believed that being polished into smooth pebbles by society is a disgusting thing. I can't do it, and I will never become such a person. Now someone says to me, "If the days have passed, and it’s just getting older, it’s probably the saddest thing." He raised his hands in agreement.
So Frank is not wrong, he is the epitome of many of us. Once strong and fierce, he lashed out at Fang Qiu, but eventually became mediocre, fell into a circle, yearning for stability, comforted himself with a little casual satisfaction, and forgotten dreams in the passing of life.
We are not willing to be lonely, we are all in love. But even medical research claims that the feeling of passion can only last for 18 months. Should we continue to walk with this person in the long life after that? April doesn't understand that love is like firewood in winter, thinking that it can keep burning without having to face the long cold after the fire has gone out. So she was disappointed and even desperate. She couldn't figure out how such a good man who always made her laugh had become such a virtue now. How could she be the perfect partner who was a perfect match for her. An annoying face. She can't stand the plain and unconventional life in the country. She wants to go to a gorgeous foreign country to write a shining new chapter in her life, but the people around her, including her husband, can't understand this kind of pain like suffocation. ? Until the love disappears and the dream is lost, it doesn't make much sense to continue to live as a zombie.
So April is not wrong, she is the self that many of us have finally been suppressed. Persevering in even imaginary fantasy, pursuing change, longing for passion, hoping that love will always be full of freshness and vitality, and finally be defeated by reality, and bury life in the shattering of dreams.
Some people say that "Revolutionary Road" is the follow-up story of Jack not drowning and going ashore with Rose. Maybe, I guess Kate Winslet must have thought about it when he made this collaboration. You see how cruel reality is. It changed the appearance and heart of the gifted and beautiful women, and threw us a bloody tragic ending, telling us that the prince and princess can only be happy in fairy tales forever.
After writing so much, what the film will tell is far from half of the story. Am I being too wordy, or is Sam Mendes too deep?
I remember that I was looking forward to this movie once when I talked to my colleague. The colleague who had already watched it shook his head and said that this movie was super boring and inexplicable, and that April was simply a lunatic. Indeed, when I first saw it, I felt that Frank was really pitiful. He always started a conversation with April with a very gentle and sincere attitude. He wanted to have an in-depth exchange, but in the end he always ended up with an out-of-control yell and quarrel. . Like Frank, many of us think that communication is very good, maybe even the best way to communicate, but it's not here.
Because the premise of communication is "Tong", and April has closed her door. Because no one understands. The thing she said the most was leave me alone.
So I can’t help asking, what other way can I save this marriage? At least in my opinion, April did make a mistake. She did not foresee that even if they did move to Paris, the ending of the story would not change.
Roads are cut off. The end of the revolutionary road is a dead end.
But such a conclusion is too depressing. What a good pair of lovers, why did they end up like this in the end?
Is life really so bad? The fat landlord who sold the house to them changed their opinion immediately after they moved out; when the host of the neighbor’s house said that we don’t want to mention the Wheelers, he was nothing more than remembering a rush of love affairs, like Craving for the color pages of coated paper in a thread-bound book. Is it true that only the son of a fat landlord’s neurotic mathematician can understand their thoughts and tell the truth? Life shouldn’t be so desperate and sad.
There is no answer.
So, "Revolutionary Road" is really a movie that needs to be watched many times.
Finally, let me turn the topic back to Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. The Oscars did not award the best actor and actress to them in this film, which further strengthened my idea that the Oscars are becoming increasingly unreliable. The years have indeed taken away their youth and beauty, but from those quarreling scenes, you can see how tension and fascinating the performance of the two people is now-even if the performance is a little overdone.
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