Despite being regarded as one of the classics of American Literature, Revolutionary Road, which has been adapted to the big screen today, reveals the facts about the crackling of the Wheeler couple’s marriage, just like in the novel.
Sitting in a typical suburban house, Frank and April Wheeler are a young, educated, charming and exemplary couple from the outside. As a matter of fact, the young couple have always seen themselves very special and different, and they are ready and willing to live in accordance with their high life ideals. Therefore, when they move to their new home on Revolutionary Road, a street lined with luxury homes, they proudly announce their independence from the static environment that surrounds them. They are determined not to fall into the traps that determine the social boundaries of that period.
But the Wheeler couple finds themselves in a situation they never expected. As Frank Wheeler turns into a man who is frustrated day after day because he has a routine job, April turns out to be an unhappy housewife trying to suppress her wishes and passions. The result is a typical American family that has lost its dreams just like any other.
With a desire to change the course of their destiny, April develops a bold plan to start all over again. They will leave the comfort of the state of Connecticut behind and go to the unknown world of Paris. However, when the plan is put into practice, it turns out that Frank and April are now in two opposite poles. While someone wants to leave everything they have behind and escape at all costs, the other is in favor of protecting everything they have. And the result is; The salvation, which is supposed to come with the dream, has been such a lie and has not neglected to bring the great collapse.
Adapted from the book written by Richard Yates in 1961, the film is not just a conventional critique of the middle class, but with the influence of the history of the adapted novel, not neglecting to deal with the effect of the political atmosphere in America in the 50s. Seems to have descended into the roots of.
Indeed, it is evident that the original name of the novel and the film refers to America’s struggle for independence in the second half of the 18th century and the establishment of the United States.
British director, one of the most spectacular films in the history of cinema and the two blockbusters of Titanic, Kate Winslet and Leonardo di Caprio, who were known at that time, with the films named American Beauty, Road to Perdition. In the movie Revolutionary Road, signed by Sam Mendes, if you want to watch your love as a middle aged couple who get married and barked, not if you want to watch your love as a young couple living at all costs.
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Revolutionary Road (2009)
Directed by: Sam Mendes
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn, David Harbour, Kathy Bates, Marin Ireland, Jonathan Roumie, Samantha Soule, Maria Rusolo, Gena Oppenheim
Screenplay by: Justin Haythe
Production Design by: Kristi Zea
Cinematography by: Roger Deakins
Film Editing by: Tariq Anwar
Costume Design by: Albert Wolsky
Set DecoratMusic by: Debra Schutt
Art Direction by. Teresa Carriker-Thayer, John Kasarda, Nicholas Lundy
Music by: Thomas Newton
MPAA Rating: R for intense thematic material, drug references, violence, sexuality, language.
Distributed by: Paramount Vantage
Release Date: January 23, 2009
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