This is one mixed up movie. It would have been enough to tell a story of a marriage with one partner burdened with a serious mental illness . . . but in Revolutionary Road, the so-called screenwriter (give him or her a F), brought in many other extraneous issues which made the movie overly complex and painful to watch.
Regarding the mental illness, Kate Winslett had multiple personalities, a fantasy that a move to another physical location would make her happy (she was too sick to understand that you take yourself with you wherever you go), she was seriously depressed and acted out her problems by being sexually promiscuous.
Some of the extraneous issues that didn't allow me to "get into" the movie are;
• The movie takes place in the late 1940's or early 1950's and the conversations were closer to 2009 culture than the 1950's (i.e. see a shrink if you are disturbed. Who talked like that in 1951?)
• The phony and stereotypical view that the people who live in the suburbs are empty headed, shallow and have no individuality. Yeah! It's great to live with your in-laws in an apartment on Jerome Avenue in the Bronx. Only the hip people live in the cities.
• Women's rights. The movie presented women who stayed home to care for their children as lame-brained. In reality, these complex, career and child rearing issues are still being worked out by all families today.
• Mentally ill people are the ones who really see the world as it truly is . . . the world that the sane but shallow can't understand. Give me a break!!
I'll bet that the book that this movie was based on was written by a 23 year old brat who just got out of her prom dress. How's that for a stereotype.
In addition, to add insult to injury, the musical score was terrible.
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