Revolutionary Road: Pretending everything is fine

[@alisonsalter8352]

“You should value what you do Frank. You’re obviously good at it.” We utter the words WE ourselves need to hear. Always. And eternally.

[@laurenc2976]

He's so grateful and almost disbelieving that she's showing any kind of interest in him and what he does. It's heartbreaking.

[@ABC4475]

I think she thought this is at least the one last thing she could do for him.

[@dub2459]

Probably one of the most underrated movies, both put in Oscar worthy performances.

[@legendary2553]

Agreed

[@thomasc2680]

The darkness at 3:27 is very sad. April’s light has already gone out. She’s just about completely dead inside and soon to be lost forever. Very eerie and sad foreshadowing. She steps into the light to say her last goodbye to her husband. I think she was hoping he wouldn’t leave her to go to work and that he could step up and do the brave thing. Have a real conversation and healing. But that’s not who he was.

[@elitsanikolova4170]

Very nice point of view. I didn't pay attention to the foreshadow. Only when he says "so long" (in my native language he says "see you tonight" and she didn't give the same response), I think in english you can translate it in many different ways.

[@alloldgames5962]

Your Analysis is more sad than the scene itself😢

[@thomasc2680]

@alloldgames5962 I somehow take that as a compliment lol. Def a movie everyone can learn from. Most tragedies are, in movies and life. And then there are also good things too! Don’t be too depressed lol this movie did mess me up for days though

[@gemmasinohin6759]

I actually expected anything good for the last scene but it wasn't. It's really sad to Frank that He didn't figure out ironically what was happening that morning, during that time it was totally different after a day they had a fight. 😢😢😢

[@labelmeposh]

I LOVE how you said "That's just WHO he was." And he didn't WANT to change. I appreciate that acknowledgment.

[@17tamal]

The way she looked at Leo when he was drawing the computer.... it's scary. I wonder what was she thinking. Love Kate's acting ❤❤❤

[@ABC4475]

She think this may be the last time she had conversation with him. That’s why she pretended everything was fine, she wanted to make a good peaceful ending for Frank.

[@odeng82]

I always thought of that moment as one final internal wish for him to change his heart and value HER the same way he values everything else in his life that doesn't really matter...

[@ButterflyDivide]

As someone who knows a lot about this kind of thing, the way she’s lit up in a shadowy sense, and half lit to show a duality in her psyche… this was a moment after a huge fight between the two. She makes a breakfast for Frank, and completely goes in like nothing is wrong. The reason why she did this, is because suicide victims commonly acted… super happy because they made their decision and are recognizing that their end is near. She decided to act normal because she feels relief for her decision, notice the lack of light in her eyes compared to DiCaprio. There’s no life in hers. If you watched this whole movie, you’d realize that this was a moment she made a major decision that was gonna get rid of all her problems.

[@gailharris4013]

Wow

[@gayathrisonnoe911]

You are on point

[@retroreceptionist7571]

And in the novel I believe she wrote in the note “frank please don’t blame yourself and signs her name. She knew it would likely kill her as she also knew she was past the point of the recommended 12 weeks in gestation I think. Also she had already bled out a lot before making it to the phone. I think it would be easier it it looked like to frank that it was more of an accident and to the world and their social circle, a tragic miscarriage that lead to her dying. But those who knew the truth knew.

[@christinabaatz1204]

Suicide never gets ride of your problem. Your believe in YOURSELF does.

[@thelordismyshepherd1366]

@@christinabaatz1204 It is better to believe in God. He can bring help and healing. If we just call out to him for help he shows up.

[@Jjsspace]

"Pretending everything is fine" my life's motto But this is an accurate representation of marriage in the '50s and '60s. The parents wouldn't get a divorce, they would just pretend everything was fine, so that the children wouldn't grow up in a broken home.

[@fadedneverland6091]

God, I feel that. They just wouldn’t do it until the youngest child was 18. But as a kid I always knew they didn’t love each other. I still wonder if they did us more damage by staying when everything was broken than they did by eventually leaving like I deep down always knew they should.

[@Reshme77]

How's that been working for them?

[@Monica-dj7ee]

Yep same. Parents fight with each other, next day they pretend everything is alright. They live compromising their happiness just for their children’s. They justify it with the sentence love. Children’s grow up thinking that their parents are the best parents in the world until they grow up and face the reality of marriages.

[@anneb889]

If neither parent is abusing the kids, overall, it is probably best for the kids to be raised in the two parent house. It’s also okay for kids to know their parents argue, but come to resolutions. Kids don’t ask to be shuffled back and forth. I knew a girl on my daughters lacrosse team that missed games every other weekend, because her dad lived hours away, and she was with him on those weekends. She wound up quitting, was missing too much. You do make a commitment when you bring kids in the world. Based on what I’ve seen with some divorced couples, who use the kids to get back at the other spouse………divorce can seem as toxic as a bad marriage…..if you can bear it….try to. Kids grow up, they don’t stay young forever.

[@sumithrababu1312]

My parents also live like nothing happened just for me n my brother.. they raised us like princess n prince.. i got married now but they are still together.. i know they still don't like each other but they help each other.. they are a weird couple.

[@A.Y.11]

Just goes to show you can have everything in the world, material success, a family, wealth, comfort etc. But if your inner self is missing a sense of purpose and tranquility, it all means nothing.

[@rebeccalehaen2062]

she just did not love him anymore... and he was always bizzy with his own self. You can¨t force love. If you marry the wrong person because you lost your inner self once ....it¨s a mistake. I don¨t know if that ever happened 2 April.... but i know it happened 2 me. When the love of my life left me he took my inner self with him. That¨s why i now practice loving God before everyone else! Maybe that 2 could have helped April!!

[@jennifersteffan2229]

Well said 😀

[@mayavanderbent7895]

I love the movie. It gets under your skin. When the music starts you feel it coming 😢

[@beauau630]

I like the arrangement of the seating position and the actor's perspective when eating the last breakfast. He basked in the light and looked toward his wife and the cozy manor house. Opposite his gaze is a housewife and a happy family. But she was in the dark and looking at the wall of the dark room had difficulty breathing. This house is a prison cell where she must soak her personality to live like a beautiful doll, a robot that does housework like any other housewife. I am a mother, believe me taking care of a child is not simple, every night I stay up to hold the child to breastfeed while my husband sleeps soundly. So, making her go through that a third time alone is a doozy. Not to mention he also had an affair and considered it a spice life. What about her? Her life is cleaned up after the words of doing nothing and being a housewife. Maybe her plans to go to Paris seem unrealistic. but it was her last struggle to say I don't want to live like this anymore, I want you to help clean this huge house, carry this heavy trash bin out every morning, I want to have a life. My own life to be told, I want to go to work and see the world out there, not four walls and children who are disruptive and cry all day when they are not satisfied.

[@benjaminrosloff4518]

I wish I could see Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet perform together in every film as couples. I love them better in Titanic than Revolutionary Road, because from there, they get along very well.

[@didaota6637]

I'v watched this movie about 6 times and never get bored

[@muhammadwaseem2480]

Where can I watch this movie?

[@jonathanneal1319]

OMG, get out of my head.

[@Bane520]

@@muhammadwaseem2480 Hulu

[@shantikallappa9001]

Do you have the link please do share

[@Bluey306]

the use of lighting is simply magnificent.

[@SarahGMoore-ex6kf]

I think what breaks my heart most about this is they could have lived happily ever after. I get this isn’t what they intended to settle into but he is so grateful to her for the bare minimum. If they really truly loved each other they could’ve compromised, a bit of both of what they wanted.

[@texasbest308]

I wonder sometimes if this scene symbolizes marriages from that time era 50s and 60s when couples pretend everything was fine and perfect when it was not. This era or time setting of the movie makes me think of Ward and June Cleaver for example

[@julieerin115]

Reminds me of the Drapers.

[@Sassy4826]

I always wanted a marriage like Ward and June, but that only happens in a fantasy world.😔

[@shannahighsmith1179]

People still do it

[@anneb889]

@@julieerin115. Frank seemed like he was a more attentive husband than Don. April strikes me as the kind of person who wouldn’t be happy anywhere……I could see her after a year or two in Paris….let’s move to Greece, etc,etc. She kinda reminds me of Scarlett O’Hara.

[@sweetcheeks5775]

Americans have such a dumb immature stereotypical view of the world before the 70s. It’s ridiculous.

[@erinunderwood3103]

Oh look he drew her another picture

[@carmenroffa]

😂😂

[@Immy_maes_youtube]

Yes, but Jack lost his skills

[@bigvictory143]

Literally all he wanted was peace but she viewed it as death.

[@TropicalWandering]

Jack survive from the iceberg

[@trique9776]

Best scene from Titanic Part 2, and Jack (AKA Frank) will hopefully make it back to Paris in part three to draw his French girls lol

[@nenisguevaragomez8122]

Sounds like a cycle to be closed .

[@howief86]

i was today years old when i learned there was another movie starring Jack and Rose from titanic!!

[@adritaalam1961]

What?noooooo

[@jonathanneal1319]

This one is not exactly "Rose and Jack". Don't go into this expecting that dynamic.

[@Thepublicaccount]

You use to draw me like your French girls now it these stupid computers.

[@toomuchinformation]

😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@nostalgia9338]

@@toomuchinformation When you were inside your mother's belly, I wish she was campaigning for her "rights".

[@natpope666]

😂😂😂😂

[@evonnegonzaga6927]

His is always my first love 😘😘😘

[@dikrali2744]

I love both of them. Love from Morocco

[@angc1456]

Only Thomas Newman can do this masterpiece score 3:09

[@hothotheat3000]

Once you’ve tapped out on a relationship, the things that enraged you no longer irritate you. You know you’re done, so you emotionally detach. Saying you don’t care and truly not caring are two different things. I think he knew she’d tapped out and he was terrified in this scene.

[@labelmeposh]

Agree

[@WhatsDaveUpTo]

This movie had a profound effect on me. And made me reject American style suburban-corporate life and move to Europe.

[@divinekaran]

how is that different

[@krejziks3398]

Her: I gave him a clear hint and behavior that shows i'm mad with him The hint:

[@mariosanchezgumiel7757]

"You should value what you do, Frank. You're obviously good at that." The sentence is a compliment, but she knows HE KNOWS he is not good at anything, so it always sounded to me like an insult.

[@labelmeposh]

😂😂 that's what I got. Also him being good at work instead of good at his marriage struck a cord with me too. Everything was ab him.

[@cherylhulting1301]

That's not what April says. She says "You're obviously good at IT." Meaning the job. April knows that Frank is never going to reach for the stars, and that she's going to leave him. But she tries one last time to buck him up about his choices before she goes.

[@byronthomas153]

Jack survived.

[@kingmaxgenesis6481]

Free full movie plssss

[@lindacosta5688]

This movie triggered me. Could not watch it again

[@pianojoe-b8f]

Can anyone tell me the place of this film? very beautiful

[@mskaylamichele92]

Shes just a....robot...sad really..

[@AngelMuraue]

Reminiscing the Titanic 💕🛳️

[@JayS.-mm3qr]

She should see what computers can do now. It's really kind of interesting.

[@misscomment8025]

Kate and Leo forever😊😊😊

[@susydesanctis4755]

I love their friendship!💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫👫

[@sadiasattarshishir7256]

This hitting me now so badly. You shouldn’t do this to me 🙂

[@Bbyluvusa]

This is just me speculating…but how much of this was a plan to break up the chances of Leo and Kate getting together? Sam Mendes, the director, married Kate and popped out some kids…he also directed the movie American Beauty which was about r@pe and had an actor in it Spacey who has been accused of r@pe in real life…like I feel so so sad bc this movie creates a nightmare of marriage and how much was this planned out intricately to sabotage them and mess with the minds of the audience watching? Again, just me speculating but truly, I can only imagine this effing up how you feel towards someone…these people are both full of love and seeing how Mendes’ marriage to her ended in divorce I just think Hollywood messes up people who are capable of true love. Again, just me shipping L + K haha, but also, not trying to downplay how messed up Hollywood is.

[@nondumiso-v3u]

I’m going to ask the acrimony movie question. Who is on the wrong in this movie? ☹️

[@cherylhulting1301]

Neither, really. They drift apart because they are fundamentally incompatible in their desires and temperaments. But they are also bright people caught in an environment that is stunting their possibilities for growth. They also keep projecting their own desires onto each other. April is an artist who keeps projecting her own desires and restlessness for creative growth onto Frank. Frank is also restless and unfocused, but he also longs for the stability that his job and suburban home will bring to him. He keeps projecting his desires onto April as the standard of what is "normal."

[@LynnWukotich]

Reminds me of the Stepford Wives

[@BekahMarie11]

Wasn’t he cheating on her anyways?

[@ScottSummers-h3x]

Leo looks like Kate's son here. lol

[@GitSumGaming]

I cringed

[@TopGunn-m4c]

Unsonnable

[@aladdout9454]

I feel like if she by some miracle had waited this suicide thing a bit out, Frank would've rewarded her with the lifestyle or independence she wanted. Since she played into living his lifestyle happily.💔💔

[@nostalgia9338]

Wasnt her intention though to self abort than kill herself? I wonder what she was thinking after the abortion.

[@AishaAisha-zg3cu]

Even if Frank would habe known Aprils intention he wouldn't create a better life for her. Men are just like that. They don't change

[@jrdb04]

@@AishaAisha-zg3cuokay first off u have issues men do change secondly what did freak do wrong at all liek yea he had his moments but really eh grave her hood life kids Loved her money and even said if he takes the new job they would have money to travel the world so what did he actually do wrong

[@cherylhulting1301]

​@@jrdb04 April didn't care about the money.

[@jrdb04]

@@cherylhulting1301 did I say she did? And what does that do if she didn’t? Dosnt negate what I said about frank giving her a good life

[@JayS.-mm3qr]

Oh you should see things now, April. One man working an average job probably wouldn't afford you any home at all, let alone that mansion you have their, with the huge lawn. Would you prefer being an admin assistant, and still being even more poor than you were in the 50's?

[@cherylhulting1301]

You don't get it.

[@JayS.-mm3qr]

@@cherylhulting1301 A worse quality of living? I do get it.

[@Jules2439.5]

I’d rather be at work, mingling with coworkers, having a sense of purpose, and getting meaningful things done than take care of a man’s house all day with no independence. Comfort does not equal happiness. Our brains are not meant to isolated away from community just to keep a nice big home. Grateful for my job, city, boyfriend, and life. I’d never trade places with her.

[@JayS.-mm3qr]

@@Jules2439.5 thats great if you'd rather. My point is now it's expected and often non negotiable. She had the option as well, don't know why they made it seem like there are literally no options for anyone. She lacked imagination. She could volunteer.... or do the very thing that she expected her man to do, for some reason. She suggested that he read amd research stuff, and then do something that he "really" wants to do. Why tf wasn't SHE doing that, if she thought it was so great? She was the one who supposedly had all this time on her hands. Instead she projected all her heavy, esoteric ideas on to Leo, and just expected him to do it, or else he's not a man. "Taking care of a house" really isnt much work, tbh, in modern times. But if it needs to be done, soneone's gotta do it, you know. Can you please retract your comment about being grateful? Lol. I have never asked someone to not be grateful, but I resent you saying that, because my point was that they had options back then, that don't exist today, due to massive inflation, rich getting richer, less available land, overly hectic paced life is expected now. It's fine if you choose that, don't say your grateful for basically, having the value of your labor greatly diminished, because that's ultimayely what you're saying. You are saying your time is so undervalued now, that both family units are forced to extra labor, in addition to whatever needs to be done at home, because one average job doesn't cut it anymore. So you might as well say, "I would be grateful if my salary were cut in half, and take my benefits while you're at it. It will mean that I will HAVE to spend more time at the office, (or whatever you do), and that's great because people are not meant to have choice in what they do with their lives. And I resent the possibility of doing something like raising kids, or having a social life, or a personal life. That would take away my office time, and it's so unnatural." Take it back.

[@bigvictory143]

@@JayS.-mm3qrthis exactly. she could have taken up a hobby. she did not need to escape to paris to find adventure in her own life.

[@jonathanneal1319]

This scene marks the beginning of my support for women's choices, specifically abortion.

[@noemicervantes6751]

Having an abortion doesn’t solve anything, it only adds more trauma.

[@meg4458]

@@noemicervantes6751 Tell that to s/a victims that are underage. Get real.

[@noemicervantes6751]

@@meg4458 I WAS a young s/a victim and if I got pregnant even at that age I would have valued life more. Because it’s not the baby’s fault gtfo

[@nenisguevaragomez8122]

​@@noemicervantes6751 💔💔💔💔

[@jonathanneal1319]

@@noemicervantes6751 I'm getting quite a different story from those who have had abortions. Any links pointing in your direction outside of your own experience (I read what you posted)?.

[@connorj4219]

Yeah why is everything not fine?

[@joylynch5204]

I am not understanding why everything is not fine

[@Mfxixi19]

They had a really huge argument the day before

[@connorj4219]

@@Mfxixi19 about why they didn’t love each other

[@maydemesa6251]

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[@joylynch5204]

It won’t get rid of them hopefully she is a believer in Christ.

[@miriamsreality]

Abd you keep making the same faces

[@nancysmits8087]

Kate Winslet is an excellent actress, but this movie is plain boring.

[@vanderlustforever7134]

I literally despised this movie. Oh whoa is me I’m a housewife in thriving post war america married to a successful computer guy. It was forced depressing when there was no reason to be depressed.

[@rimadaschakraborty8411]

Well, not eveybody has a dream to just settle down for less. Some want a little joy, a different air to live a better life.

[@angiesamantamunozalva6875]

I think you are watching this wrong, maybe try to understand it

[@4llowyourdream]

And I literally despised Frank and was really surprised when I read the comments under such videos where a lot of people think it was April who's in the wrong.

[@anitanoterajes]

This bloke is a lost cause, their parents failed to raise them to see women as people not ornaments

[@garyrobertson6778]

literally, though?

[@inquisitorkrieger8171]

The story of a selfish, cruel woman driving a man insane. Tale as old as time.

[@siennavine81]

You wish.

[@giorgisabashvili2664]

both of them were selfish, they both tried to pursue the happiness and had the same goals, but the guy reneged on these goals by remembering his father and how much he sacrificed for him, and decided to do the same for his kids, this meant sacrificing her for the kids as well. their love died the moment he did the introspection and realized there was nothing but reality and void

[@joetamburello6292]

@@giorgisabashvili2664 disagree. She wanted a lavish lifestyle

[@cherylhulting1301]

Whoosh. You really missed the point. And conveniently forgot that Frank is no innocent. He was cheating on April.

[@cherylhulting1301]

​@@joetamburello6292 No she didn't. I don't think you've read the book or seen the movie.

[@catsfan_M]

She is more beautiful with red hair.