Revolutionary road:

Revolutionary road:

• Posted by Steven Perron 

Leonardo DeCaprio and Kate Winslet play a married couple in the mid 1950’s trying to deal with what first appears to be a midlife / mid-marriage crises till one day the wife comes up with an ideal to move to Italy and start over, this would allow her husband to realize his dream, Now the first time I watched this movie I was preoccupied with reading a book at the same time and the only reason I was even watching it was because my wife insisted, so I did not really catch to much of the movie.

Now the second time was in the bedroom, my wife decided to watch the movie regardless of the fact that I was trying to sleep, so as I was laying there I couldn’t help but listed to the movie as it was playing and since I was not watching the move and just listening to it I started to hear and understand the underlying plot to the move and at that time two words popped into my mind “RAT RACE”, at this point I sat up in bed and started to paying a lot more attention to what was happening in the movie and even had my wife start the move over from the beginning, so I could understand the whole plot of the movie.

Basically the husband got a job in the corporate world after getting married and the wife settled into her role as a house wife but both of them knew that this was not what they were mint to accomplish in life, as the move played on the entire sorted plot revealed itself to me, the husband was getting up in the morning kissing the wife commuting to work in the car and the subway just to end up in a cubical each day droning away at a deadened job along with hundreds of other people, then returning home each night just to start it all over again in the morning, this not only was driving him crazy but was also causing some very big problems in the marriage, so the wife comes up with the plan to move to Italy, so they could start over, but all of there friends think they are crazy except for one that has been deemed mentally challenged by the doctors, he believes it is a great ideal and will give them the chance to find there dream again.

About halfway through the movie the wife finds out that she is pregnant and after several horrendous fights they decide to stay where the are and not go to Italy because of the wife’s pregnancy and because the husband was offered a better position within his company at the same time, so several days later the friend that is mentally challenged decides to visit and finds out why the couple is not going to move to Italy, he immediately starts to analyze the reason for this and determines that the husband is to week / scared to leave what has become there “Comfort zone”, he poses the question (Don’t woman have baby’s in Italy), if yes, then why is this stopping you from going, this questing of course was asked because the pregnancy was the reason given for not moving to Italy, but there friend could see that the real reason was because of fear and not the pregnancy. The ensuing argument resulted in the friend being kicked out and told never to return, and later in the movie the wife self-induced an abortion for reasons not clearly stated in the movie, but the implied reason was to enable them to pursue there dream.

This movie had a lot more content then what I just described but the description of the plot I described above was what I got from the movie, now we all have had dreams and ambitions in life then for some reason we slowly loose focus on those dreams then the worries of life takeover.

I challenge all of you to think back and remember those dreams that you once had and remember those hopes for a wonderful future filled with wealth and happiness then take action to make them a reality now not later, it is never to late to have your dreams come true.