On the Road Far From Heaven in a Ice Storm

Rating: 9/10 (20 June 2010)

Sam and the rest of the cast can do no wrong in my book so I'm ashamed I didn't see it when it came out until now. I think because of the subject matter I knew it wasn't going to be a light hearted film. I dreaded it in a way but I new it would be good for the soul. So I was born in the 50's and the settings and colors are spot on. Deakins is a master of course. Life in America after the war when were young and invincible and the feeling of optimism of a new world. Some are not cut out for cookie cutter world of picket fences and 2.3 children. Some of us plan to set the world on fire and be all we could be. Some just planned and fate intervened. Every generation is this way. Some times we get stuck in not what we wanted. April is one of those stuck people. Frank didn't mind it too much, it came easy to him. When I look back on the street I grew up on I realize maybe 3 out of 30 couples stayed to together by the time the 70's came along. For most it doesn't come easy. Will we alway have Paris?