The seemingly stable family structure was actually riddled with cracks, and finally split and separated on a certain ice storm night, and became an independent body again.
The rupture of a relationship is like skin. But it's not a heart-piercing pain, and it can't be solved with tears. It's just a heavy heart when people see it. The death of the young man in the end made this sense of rupture even more tragic.
Ang Lee's "Ice Storm" reminds me of "Revolutionary Road".
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