Honey, I'm home!

Rating: 9/10 (21 August 2009)

It opens at a party, where the two main characters meet each other. Then it flash forwards to a play, where Winslets character just performed an awful acting performance, and the two main characters lash out on the side of the road on the way home. Then the title rolls. And after a while, you think that there isn't a better scene than that. But soon it happens. The movie is about a plan to put a marriage back together, but after an unplanned pregnancy, a few affairs, an new high paying job for the husband. And then comes the scene, after a long roller coaster ride of drama and high hopes, where a man who is virtually mentally ill exposes the perfect couple as seen in public for what they truly are. DiCaprio can't handle it, yells at him for feeling insecure for being exposed. The man tells Winslets character he feels bad for her but at the same time, thinks she is awful as well, for putting up with everything and how she let her become a ruined human. He leaves, saying he feels sorry for himself, but says that there is one person in the room he wouldn't want to be: the unborn child. After he leaves, the eruption starts, and the fight escalates into the woods. It's the perfectly acted scene of this half of the decade so far. And what happens after is just unbearably unbelievable and at the same time, irritably true to life. Revolutionary Road will not necessarily corrupt or destroy your view on the perfect 50's life, but instead it will make you realize what a lie that lifestyle is, and help you realize why we are here now. Winslet and DiCaprio are not only at the top of their game, but at the top of the entire game (that's every actor in the world, thank you). They stick with you and eat you alive. Don't expect any comfort.