Revolutionary Road

Revolutionary Road is not going to make you laugh. If I remember correctly there is exactly one scene that makes you smile and it's after a very depressed Leonardo just cheated on his wife only to see she still loves him. So even that isn't really a high quality smile. You certainly will spend a lot of your time with your insides clenched as if you were hiding from a boogey man or at the very least trying to stay vapor distance away from someone with really bad breath. In a way Revolutionary Road has bad breath.

I thought the movie was really good. To say I really enjoyed it might be a lie, so I am choosing to be careful with my words. I love Leo, and I have a collection of Kate Winslet pictures above my work area that some may consider to be "unhealthy". So what, I'm not healthy, neither are you. As is their standard fare, they both put up award worthy performances. And in some ways their characters carry with them some of the traits they each carried in that sinking ship movie. She, stuck in her life that she doesn't really want. He, a dreamer that is caught up in a different situation than he ever expected. The differences come in how their characters choose to live with these traits, in real life suburbia, as opposed to some fancy ship where we are just getting a romance so all the teenagers see the movie a ton of times.

Let's get this out of the way, I am sexist, or as everyone from an older generation likes to call it "old-fashioned". I think women are crazy and men are sane and most problems in life are derived from that specific equation. I bring this up for only reason, Revolutionary Road agrees with me. I don't want to give any spoilers but from these eyes, the film was about how guys can stay sane and grounded through even the toughest of hardships and girls go batshit crazy all the time. If you were trying to get me to agree with your worldview Mr Mendes, don't try so hard next time. I'm in, and send your wife (Kate Winslet) over to make me a turkey. Now!

While the message I took from the movie may not be what you take, in the end Revolutionary Road is simply a fascinating, if not morbidly depressing, look into what life is like when you move to the suburbs and start a family. Thank god I live in a city.