Can April and Frank work it out? They are so weak in a world where people have departed from their "state of nature" (to quote Rousseau here).

Rating: 7/10 (7 February 2009)

Being 20 something, I don't want to appear too smart on this subject simply because I am not. However, I don't understand the silent smile that Mr. Howard Givings' wears at the end of the movie. Is that the expression of human wisdom? Is that signifying a kind of reconciliation with the unhappiness in life? Is that telling us to give up our true desires just to be living from hand to mouth? I want to stop asking these questions for now because I have sensed an impasse just inches ahead. I am thinking about the couple in Michael Haneke's The Seventh Continent and another couple in Robert Bresson's A Gentle Woman. Having seen those two, I have to say Revolutionary Road is much easier to grasp, however, in a way, also not as thought-provoking as them.