Must see, this could change your life!

Rating: 10/10 (11 January 2009)

This is a difficult movie to watch because I think that the many messages will resonate with any and everyone. It's important to live our lives for ourselves, not for our parents, not for our spouses and not to let life pass us by. Once we stop we stop dreaming, we stop living. I know that sounds extreme, but this movie has made me reflect on all of the time I've wasted, who I've lived my life for and whether I've left things too long to change. It's far too easy to accept our lot in life and just run out the string in our mediocre and less than satisfying existence until we die. The Wheeler family, April (Kate Winslet) and Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) are a couple that has moved to an "idyllic" small town to live out the "dream" but in reality, no one seems to be able to be true to themselves or to communicate and the dream is shown for what it really is, a nightmare.