| Revolutionary Road is a 2008 British American movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Both the actors have been paired after the tremendous success of Titanic.
Frank and April (Dicaprio and Winslet) is a happily married couple with a son and a daughter move to Revolutionary Road in one of New York City's wealthy Connecticut suburbs. Frank despises his marketing job where his now-deceased father worked for twenty years in a similar position, whereas April is dissatisfied with her life as a suburban housewife, boringly engaged in raising her two children and all the domestic chores of day to day’s life. The couples feel they are unique and special, but trapped in the conformity of life in the suburbs, where they moved to raise their children. From time to time they have bitter arguments, where often Frank physically throws April out the house reprimanding and berating her out of sheer frustration in life.
On Frank's thirtieth birthday he seduces a young secretary from his office, and begins to sleep with her on occasion. Returning home late, April surprises him with a birthday cake and a proposal that they move to Paris, with April working as a secretary to support the family so that Frank can discover what he truly wants to do in life. Frank’s talent at his job earns him some recognition, and April becomes pregnant again. April wants an abortion and has bought a device she has heard is safe if used in the first twelve weeks. Frank disapproves. April runs into the woods and asks to be left alone. She returns and, the next morning, calmly acts the part of a supportive housewife.
In this movie, Frank and April are friends with local Realtor Helen Giving’s and her husband Howard, who occasionally visit with their adult son John, a former mathematician who is now under psychiatric care in a mental institution. John has no inhibitions about asking personal question to the couples, but on the contrary they are interested in him for his perception and honesty. After some frequent petty quarrel when Frank leaves for the day she attempts to perform an abortion with her device, which goes wrong, and she dies later that day in the hospital. Frank moves to the city with the children.
It is a not to be missed beautiful movie about a happy and rich couple trying to come to terms with reality and personal problems while raising the two children. |
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