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Revolutionary Road reunites Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet for the first time since that film about a ship that meets its watery demise. If you substitute relationship for ship and suburbia for water, you have a good working idea of the movie’s direction.

Far from a romantic play set against a nautical disaster, this film charts the disintegration of a marriage and love between two people that connected once but have now grown apart and have no facility to reconnect. Leo plays Frank Wheeler, a war vet returning home with no real direction after the intensity and horror of the battlefield and Kate plays his wife, April, an intelligent woman who after following the norm of the day is lead to a point of almost complete isolation from her true self.

If this all sounds like heavy going, it is but with the acting talent on display and the directorial ability of Sam Mendes (American Beauty and Jarhead) it’s a train wreck you can’t look away from. In scene after scene the frustration builds as these two decent people tear each other apart not from hatred or spite but from facing a life and social expectations beyond their grasp.

Few recent films pack the emotional impact of Revolutionary Road and watching its two main protagonists suffer is often difficult to watch but this film burns itself into your memory and will stay there long after less substantial films have disappeared from your thoughts.
Rob Hudson
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