The ideal road to struggle in reality

Kameron 2022-03-23 09:01:33

Finally found the "Revolutionary Road" that I have collected for a long time. The reunion of Leonardo and Kate after ten years is what caught my attention in the first place.

Fortunately, we have already prepared for it. The tone of this film is really contrary to the romance of "Titanic". The audience who want to relive their old dreams may not be able to bear such a blow. A couple who were once full of revolutionary romanticism, after embarking on a married life, faced various problems one after another, more and more acute conflicts, and finally went to perdition after the dream was shattered. Kate is dead, and the ideal of going to Paris is ruined. In life, many tragedies caused by realistic factors make people feel even more cold.

Individuals in marriage sometimes live a mediocre life at the cost of a lifetime of dreams. The tragedy of the heroine is that she has always been obsessed with her dreams. In the trouble of reality, she is powerless to struggle and unwilling to give up, and can only be destroyed in the end. American liberalism, in an almost insane form, was realized. Just imagine such a logic, it is difficult to hold in the Chinese social context. Individual tolerance and sacrifice are the cultural foundation of a harmonious society. In Chinese family relations, responsibility is destined not to destroy the overall stability, and of course it also preserves the self from another perspective.

Going back to the most fundamental proposition, are ideals and reality really so diametrically opposed? Matter and spirit are the foundation of human existence, and there is no need to separate them deliberately. There are so many pretentious individuals in the world, and how many can truly dominate the world? Most of the living beings have been honed in their own reality. Looking up at the kingdom of heaven in the world, why can't you be free and stretch?

It's a pity that even the young faces like Jack and Rose in the camera can be so slack due to the destruction of time... In addition to sighing, they can only accept it calmly. Reality never asks if you want it or not.

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Extended Reading
  • Lexi 2021-11-11 08:01:14

    He fucked a girl, and she fucked a man. They loved each other, and they hurted each other. Being happy needs to fool and blind yourself, do you wanna to die or live in a whole big lie for the rest of your life?

  • Terrence 2022-03-23 09:01:33

    The performances are all good, but the discord in marriage life and the search for an ideal life are a little too hard. Love is not all life and death, and poetry and the distance are not completely opposites - there may not be poetry in the distance, but there is poetry in front of you.

Revolutionary Road quotes

  • Bart Pollock: Frank, let me tell you something my father told me. A man gets only a couple of chances in life. If he doesn't grab'em by the balls, it won't take long for he's sitting around wondering why he got to be second rate.

  • [first lines]

    Frank Wheeler: So, what do you do?

    April Wheeler: I'm studying to be an actress. You?

    Frank Wheeler: I'm a longshoreman.

    April Wheeler: No, I mean, really.

    Frank Wheeler: I mean really, too. Although starting next Monday I'm doing something a little more glamorous.

    April Wheeler: What's that?

    Frank Wheeler: Night cashier at a cafeteria.

    April Wheeler: I don't mean how you make money. I mean, what are you interested in?

    Frank Wheeler: Honey, if I had the answer to that one, I bet I'd bore us both to death in half an hour.