How revolutionary can you be?

Rating: 9/10 (18 March 2009)

I still have the anguish and distress in my stomach. The same I had when the movie was over and the same I had when I went to bed that night.
Leonardo Di Caprio still looks like the same kid as in Titanic, always good-looking and elegant, but now making the biggest effort to convince us that he is a great actor. The truth is that he is. There is nothing much to prove...
I didn't know much about the movie and never read the book before. My choice was purely based in the quality of the actors and director and maybe a trailer I had seen previously. Fortunately 100 minutes later I was seating with the impression of having seen one of the best movies of the year.
A movie that can describe the suffocation of living a life full of conventionalisms and the frustration from dealing with the impossibility of getting rid of them. Any argument from the Wheeler's in the 50's can be the exact same argument from the Johnson's in the 00's in a suburb anywhere. But "Revolutionary Road" is not only the typical story of a couple who buys a house, has kids, goes out with the friendly neighbor's and one day starts asking "what are we doing around here?"...
Seems like no one knows the answer except a magnificent character, a neighbor's son who has a psychiatric problem. Maybe sometimes you just need to be a little insane to see things as they really are.
No need to tell you anymore. Please go and watch it for yourselves. Devastating but necessary.