Monday, January 5, 2009

Revolutionary Road

Directed by Sam Mendes
Released in 2008

Honestly, I'm not really a fan of these Mad Men-type post-WW2 American period pieces. There isn't anything particularly interesting about that time: everyone was bourgeois and bigoted. Whatever.

The movie itself was alright. Leo and Kate put up a good show but the movie relied too much on its period-piece-ness for success. The plot itself was banal: suburban couple wants to break free of its unhappy middle-class existence but is too scared.

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