Hopeless emptiness

Rating: 8/10 (11 May 2010)

The drama is about a couple played by Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet. When he meets her (April) he already says he works only for the money, without any passion. She, in other hand, dreams to be an actress.
But she is not talented and her career doesn't emerges. Every problem they have, the man starts some discussion and the woman tries to avoid it, in contrary to the usual, a typical change of roles.
Years later he keeps working in an unpleasant job while she is a housewife with two children. They live a tepid life without any big emotion and both keep fighting each other.
But one day, after a big fight where he seems very angry, April finds a photograph of him in Paris and a dream rises. She convinces him to go live in Paris and they tell everybody in town. Nobody seems to understand this immature idea, except the psychotic man called John. He is the one that understand the hopeless emptiness that rule their hearts. However it seems that the emptiness is stronger in the woman than in the man.
The woman than acts like an actress in her real life. In her last breakfast she is a great actress and the husband really enjoys it, even though I think he could realize that she wasn't being real, because of her great coldness.
After the movies end, I kept asking myself if I were in his skin, if I would have gone to Paris. This decision was foolhardy but I think he could convince his wife to go on vacation first, or something like that. He couldn't just say her plan, her dream was silly.
The main problem between the couple is that April dream about glamour and Frank was more realistic, more grounded.
Something I liked very much in the movie is the acting of Kathy Bates and the fact that she smokes a lot, even when pregnant. That was realistic because the time of the movie is around the fifties.
Something I didn't like in the movie was that even though they are parents of two children and some of their problems is because of them, the kids rarely appear in the screen. Other thing I didn't like was the scene he tells her wife that he has cheated on her.
But overall I liked because the movie makes you think. Sam Mendes is really nice.