Revolutionary Warfare
Revolutionary Road is a horror movie. It’s no coincidence, I think, that the tragic protagonists of the film – Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) and April Wheeler (Kate Winslet) – live in a house at the very edge of their suburban anti-idyll, slanted on a hill. They are on the edge of the woods; at one point we see April through the window-pane at twilight, dressed in white, having just returned from roaming wildly through the trees. It is a gorgeous and frightening image, enhanced by the constantly creepy score. This is an “everyday” drama that had me on the edge of my seat, terrified at the inevitable, violent conclusion. A film where the sadness is offset by the importance of the ideas being examined, and how they pertain to every single one of us. Read more
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