Revolutionary Road
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Movie Reviews of Revolutionary Road
Movie Review: Revolutionary Road: Favorite film, 2008
Summary: 5 Stars
I absolutely loved this movie and was disappointed it didn't get the Oscar love it deserved. When I first saw the trailer, I'll admit, despite a fantastic score, it seemed too ordinary. What I didn't take into account, and foolishly now in hindsight, was the chemistry between two of our finest actors fueling every scene, word and glance. Kate Winslet and Leo DiCaprio offer up a Master's class in acting. Just sit back and be mesmerized. You believe every emotion that passes between these two. Add a great supporting class (I found the repressed neighbors to be just as memorable as Michael Shannon), an incredible score, and confident, take-it-there direction, and you have my favorite movie of 2008. Highly recommend.Movie Review: I was definitely surprised! Dark feminism, 1950's style
Summary: 5 Stars
I had read a lot about this movie and how dreary it was. I was clueless as to how much of a feminist treatise it was. Spoiler alert! I knew it was about 2 idealists trying to slum it in the suburbs but the real message for me was how hopelessly trapped the Kate Winslet character was by motherhood. This is very much the tone of feminist literature of the period; the stranglehold of fertility.
I loved the movie and saw, clearly, many aspects of the lives of my mother and aunts of the period...chained by child after child. It is a cautionary tale and a breathtaking one. Watch this with Vera Drake and you'll think a whole lot more carefully about what we have gained in the interim.
Movie Review: The most important movie made in the last 20 years!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Below you will read the basic plot info, yet the heart of the movie is key. It's set in the fifties but it speaks to all generations, it voices a frightening desperation of mediocre lives lived, waiting for something bigger to come around the bend. The fighting scenes are so real and so filled with pain that I was spellbound. They are meant to be together it's just that April (Kate W) has the courage to leap while her mate(Leo) can't quite take that step and it's that very chasm that rips them apart. I think it's the most important movie made in the last 20 years. Some can conform and loose themselves in Suburban reality while others get chewed up by the static ritual of such existence.Movie Review: Real Life
Summary: 5 Stars
Revolutionary Road stays at the level of real life marital arguments. In real life, there are feelings, words, tensions, standoffs. There are also interpretations of just what's going on -- rarely even close to accurate, assuming there is a way of knowing.
The arguments feel real. The crazy-guy character/jester may seem to get close to the bone, but the story doesn't relieve the tension.
We saw the movie at the cinema last night. The tension took such an unresolved turn near the end, that a young lady a few rows in front of us fainted. Perhaps she had experienced the movies climax a little too intensely in her own life.
Movie Review: An emotional rollercoaster.
Summary: 5 Stars
Revolutionary Road starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet is a disturbing but honest look at a marriage on the brink of collapse. This film is drected by Sam Mendes (American Beauty), he just happens to be married to Winslet - I love how dark and unsettling this film is - the ending was uncomfortable to watch but definitely not forgettable in any sense. DiCaprio and Winslet are incredible and gifted actors, their chemistry is smoldering, don't expect a Titanic kind of film though. Probably the best film of 2008, I highly recommend it!