Eyes that cannot see...

Rating: 1/10 (13 June 2011)

It would seem this couple lived in the backwoods of Appalachia rather than the Connecticut suburbs of New York City. New York City in the 1950's was hardly a period of dearth of intellectual, artistic, political and social change. The movie requires the audience to suspend time and actually believe April was so close-minded she could not get a driver's license or take the railroad into The City - The Big Apple ! Man. However, we are expected to believe she was itching to blaze trails and live the good life in beautiful Paris! Hey, there is a really apt expression that fits her situation : "Where ever you go there you are." She was infantile, narcissistic, and worse a coward. I would have had more respect for her had she simply gotten on the plane and sent him a letter with a picture of her standing in the Louvre Museum or sitting at an open air café drinking a glass of milk! It occurred to me that in "Titanic" - DiCaprio died and here Winslet does. Perhaps in their next movie together they can die together or couple in a modern version of "Dead Again" made by Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh - this might work out the bad karma at long last - breaking the energy of star-crossed lovers who happen to be Libra (Winslet) and Scorpio (DiCaprio). LOL.
It is safe to say I did not "like" the movie.