Revolutionary Road

Today, I am free before doing 4 night on-call which is a hell to me. I went to nearby Vue to watch a film. Basically I am not a movie fan. But I enjoy quality films. I prefer to watch at home where I set up 37 LCD with a surround system. I don't support poor quality download movie or pirated DVDs that Chinese-look people normally sell on the street in East London town centres. What happened last time was I had a chance to watch Mama Mia together with my friend in his place. I don't know from where he got that DVD. But it was very poor resolution and terrible sound quality. As a result, I felt tasteless on such a fantastic movie and went back in half show. Since then, I never try DVD if I don't buy properly from the shop.

At O2 Vue, I chose Revolutionary Road starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo as I heard on TV that she won Golden Globe award recently for her role in it.

Here is the breif story available on Wiki

Set in 1955, Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) and April Wheeler (Kate Winslet) move to Revolutionary Road in a Connecticut suburb, and have a daughter and a son.

April is an aspiring but unsuccessful actress who is dissatisfied with her life as a suburban housewife. Frank despises his dull job at Knox Business Machines. From time to time they have bitter arguments. Frank has sex with a young secretary from the office in celebration of his 30th birthday.

April proposes a move to Paris to make their lives more exciting; she will have a job (she heard that secretaries of government agencies are paid well), while Frank can figure out what he really wants in life and start doing that. Frank agrees, and they tell colleagues and friends, who react politely, but find the idea rather immature.

In the meantime, Frank is offered a promotion, and April gets pregnant. April wants to have an abortion and has bought a device to do that herself; it is safe up to pregnancies of 12 weeks. Franks is against that, and emphasizes that there are still two weeks time to think about it.

They are friends with local realtor Helen and her husband Howard. They visit them sometimes with their son John Givings, who stays in a mental institution; he was a mathematician, but as a side effect of 37 electroshocks he forgot everything of it. He has no inhibitions to ask Frank and April direct questions and tell them his explicit opinions about the dull life in this town and about their marriage, to Helen's embarrassment. First Frank and April agree with John, but later Frank gets angry, after which John says that he feels sorry for them and their unborn baby. During an argument Frank tells April he wished she had had the abortion.

The emigration is cancelled. Later April has sex with neighbor and Frank's friend Shep Campbell. While Frank thinks the abortion is cancelled too, April carries it out in too late a stage of the pregnancy, and she dies. Frank moves away with the children. Helen talks negatively about the couple to Howard, but he turns his hearing aid off.

If you watch the movie, you will discover it is much more than that. There is a something nasty going on at the background.