Review: Revolutionary Road

Oh and as for the Oscars, Kate really should have won for this. I can only assume she pulled an Alec Guinness in The Reader and portrayed all the characters. I'm not buying a better performance.
And as much as I hate to give DiCaprio credit, he was awesome in this.
Right, I'm off to watch the death scene from Titanic a few hundred times. Baby faced little shit!

Great film but terribly sad. I wasn't too impressed at the start because it feels like you've joined half-way through and they're clearly already on a one-way road to hell but the little flashbacks work perfectly in showing just how fragile their foundations are. Frank is all talk and no trousers, a child pretending to be an adult with no ambition other than to do better than his dad, the only target for success he has. All the while April still holds on to her bourgeois ideals, despite being trapped in the hell of 50's housewife, and projects her dreams onto her husband in order to survive the mundaneness. Honestly, how the blue hell they lasted 7 years is a mystery. It's only when the mirror of their neighbours is held up to them that realisation starts to set in, before Kathy Bates borderline son turns up and decimates the illusion and the desperate stretching and clawing to get away collapses, leaving them to turn in on each other and implode.
One of the key moments, not of the Wheelers but of the entire story, is a simple scene between their neighbours. As they sit on their bed and both admit to privately ridiculing the Paris plan, the wife bursts into tears, clearly longing for the days when she could dream of such ridiculous slights of fancy. It's real Desperate Housewives stuff and it's tragically understandable.

But his face! His squishy little face.

He needs to take up hard drinking and intense smoking. I do want to see this, but I just watched Mad Men series 1 again, and if I get any more depressed by the realities of 50s Americana, I might burn all my poodle skirts and beat up the girls in the typing pool.

DiCaprio is one of those people who it's difficult to say you like, because he'll always be thought of as that little oik from Titanic. But he's awesome in The Departed, great in Catch Me If You Can and incredible in The Aviator.

Gimme the blueprints gimme the blueprints gimme the blueprints

if it's anything like Yates' novel then I'll not be watching it. Yates slowly and painfully pulls a marriage apart with an eye for the mundane details until by the end you are turning the pages thinking "I. Want. To. Kill. Myself".
Is the ending the same? I'd lay bets Mendes did.

And you're exactly right about DiCaprio - he has a child's head and is just not convincing as a grown up. Even with a little beard and a non-digital watch in "Blood Diamond".