An ambitious try

Rating: 7/10 (11 February 2009)

The American dream again and has that dream ever been more strong than during the 50s? However that was, this is about the couple who tries to escape it. Or maybe they are escaping the escape? Di Caprio and Winslet, especially Winslet, are competent. But the acting is anyhow too melodramatic sometimes. This is not people of the 50s. And it's not neither film nor theater.
But it is a serious try to illustrate complicated feelings. Not silly at all, but the ambitions are higher than the result. If we're still waiting for the Great American Novel, we've already got the Great American Movie. But is isn't this one.