BE WARNED: If you ever have the opportunity to see the new film Revolutionary Road, DON'T! Get out of there as fast as you can, unless of course you would like to be haunted for the rest of your life by the horrible emotions that you will experience while watching this film.
My friend Bridget and I decided to go see this movie last Saturday, thinking that it would just be a happy little Jack and Rose reunion. FALSE. This movie made me want to kill myself. Now please, don't get me wrong, the movie was incredible by all technical aspects. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet were captivating and I never took my eyes off the screen for a second. It was the ending that killed me. I was sure that such a wonderful film would have to close with an equally wonderful and fulfilling ending. Yet again, FALSE. The ending to Revolutionary Road is quite possibly the worst ending ever formulated by any writer's mind in the history of the world.
Now I know it's an adaptation of the original novel, but why make the movie if the story ends so horribly? Why write the book? Did the author get gratification from dreaming up such a terrible ending?
I won't give away what happens, just in case any of you masochists out there want to torture yourselves. I'll just tell you that if so choose to see this film, you will leave the theater with the most unexplainable emotion. It is a terrible emotion, one that makes you think, in short, that life sucks and then you die. No one can be trusted, people are horrible to one another, and there is no hope for any of us. It was awful! Bridget and I sat there sobbing for ten minutes after the movie ended, and then we started laughing hysterically for another ten minutes because we didn't have any other way to express such a terrible emotion. I mean, maybe I missed something crucial about the ending. Was it symbolic? Maybe there was some message of hope embedded in that pile of misery somewhere. But I sure as hell didn't see it.
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