To sum it up this film is one long, 2 hour-odd shouty argument, made to feel as if it lasts for about 15 billion years! Two married arseholes, hector back and forth at each other about their first world problems until you just can't take any more of it. It's full of 'emoting' and the sort of bellowed monologue that is like catnip to the serious actor. No doubt when the script came through both
Winslet and
DiCaprio probably thought it had 'Oscar' written through it like a stick of rock. Unfortunately the dialogue is the kind of preachy eulogising that nobody in reality actually ever speaks like, and whilst I concede the time period was far more rigid regarding the roles of men and women in society, with two central characters who care nothing for each other, it begs the question of why the fuck should the audience? Tedious.
IMDB:
Revolutionary Road
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