'Tell me the truth, Frank, remember that? We used to live by it. And you know what's so good about the truth? Everyone knows what it is however long they've lived without it. No one forgets the truth, Frank, they just get better at lying.'
- April, Revolutionary Road.
- April, Revolutionary Road.
Revolutionary Road tells the story of monotony, how social standards and the notion of picketed fences and warm baked dinners served by apron-donning wives has killed the joy and sucked the life out of those who never dreamt of conformity or cookie-cutter lives. How corporate aspirations and the 9-5 routine has emptied you out leaving nothing but a shell and the reality of non-achieved dreams.
I didn't particularly feel like this film was a masterpiece. I must say though that it was in some ways an eye opener. There are things I don't want. I do want to LIVE, I do want to BE, I do want to stand over this land and move, go somewhere, feel.
I didn't particularly feel like this film was a masterpiece. I must say though that it was in some ways an eye opener. There are things I don't want. I do want to LIVE, I do want to BE, I do want to stand over this land and move, go somewhere, feel.
'It takes backbone to lead the life you want.'
- April, Revolutionary Road.
'Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness. '
- John Givings, Revolutionary Road.
- April, Revolutionary Road.
'Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness. '
- John Givings, Revolutionary Road.
*Currently listening to Columbia screaming in the background, Rocky Horror Picture Show, round 23, time to catch up*
didn't see it, put it right up there with "choke" - figured they were trying to blow leonardo dicaprio through the ventura of entropy, the obligatory midlife affair and shutdown within work a sort of predictable conclusion to the fabric of half pursuit that knits together two point five-six lost lives
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and the flowers that they never send.
btw good review. Its always kind of cool to dodge a bullet.
ReplyDeletehmm... one movie review every two weeks... yep. the blog's dead.
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ReplyDeleteThe blog's not dead. But I'm not writing this blog for you. Find another source of entertainment.
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