revolutionary road: hopeless emptiness

Some viewers said this is Sam Mendes's 50's version "American Beauty", some said this is the story of "Titanic" 10 years after. To me, this is the movie I'm most eager to watch since the day I knew it.

The happenings to this young couple living in the suburbia of 50's can be referred in the lives of many married couples, the conflicts between the reality and their dreams in mind. When the husband and wife cannot fine tune their goals to the similar level, problems and quarrels will be incurred. One day either one of them may find out that the one lying next is no longer the one he/she loved before.

When the wife asked the husband to quit his boring job and went to Paris together to find their long lost dreams, the husband was still willing to give themselves a try. When the husband finally had a chance to get promoted in his firm and proved to his old man he was not following his route of failure, he could not persuade his wife to give up her unrealistic dream lingured in her mind.

Until one day, when the husband confessed his affair to his wife, she couldn't care less and said to her husband: "Why did you tell me about it? I just don't want to listen and I don't even care." This is the most hopleless mement between the couple, things rapidly turned worse and eventually their relationship ended tragically.

When the neighurhood of this pair of couple thinks that they are the role model living in the Revolutionary Road, the guy receiving treatment of the psychotherapist is the only one who can read through their minds and point out their weakness and their darkness side boldly. When the real emotions are being revealed, the husband cannot control his temper and the wife just chooses to sit back with a cigarette without any expression on her face.

That night was the hardest night between them, suddenly everything seemed fine the next morning. They were having their greatest breakfast together, the husband thought everything's fine and back to their normal track of life. He even didn't noticed the ideas staying in the wife's mind. This was their last time spending a normal, sweet and healthy family life together.

All these are just daily happenings between married couples, nothing spectacular and special. However I feel like sinking to the bottom of the abyss watching their quarrels and turning downs, deeply proving my impressions towards the turning sour process of the married couple, when they cannot transcend their status of emptiness and hollowness.

Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.