Revolutionary Road

"I'm kind of cheating here because I haven't read the book, only seen the movie. I wrote a FB note about it at the time, so I'll just copy/paste it here:<br/><br/>Just watched "Revolutionary Road", a glaring depiction of a relationship trainwrecked by the (ultimately) differing social desires of a married couple living in 1950's Connecticut. A painfully dark film that had me riveted to the screen.<br/><br/>This film, and those similar to it, are more realistic and truthful than all those "chick-flick" fantastical romance movies out there (and how I've come to hate them!!). Seriously, how many of us have dutifully stayed in the box that society and well-meaning people have thrust upon us, AND if we have, are we able to confront the damage it does without it doing us in??<br/><br/>But, dare we step outside the box at all?? Because the couple in this film did (or tried to do) exactly that, only to see their plans for a hopeful future unravel and disintegrate before their very eyes. The limitations that we think hold us back, may ultimately be the very thing that could have freed us from a far more horrific outcome.<br/><br/>The question becomes, do we live the way we're supposed to (adequate job, cubicles, quaint house, white picket fence, 2.3 children, a family car), or do we.......live the "American" dream of a carefree life and a passion for what WE choose to do (not what society chooses for us)?<br/><br/>Which is more dangerous?? And....are the choices really all that different from each other? "The more things change, the more things stay the same"...<br/><br/>Amazing thought-provoking film."

"You will end up hating the characters. It is also incredibly depressing."