Han Haoyue
Leonardo DiCaprio, who starred in "Revolutionary Road", has not yet stepped out of the "fresh meat" image of "Titanic", of course, it is also far from the "sloppy style" in "The Revenant", this movie is Leonardo's representative work in the journey from idol to power, and many people are the first time to see Leonardo's "exploding" acting skills from the film.
Leonardo's role in "Revolutionary Road" is a small clerk who gradually loses his romance and interest in married life, and the heroine who partners with him is Kate Winslet, who became famous with him in "Titanic". The story idea and actor choice of "Revolutionary Road" correspond to a proposition: if Jack and Ruth successfully disembarked from the ship, what kind of married life would they have?
Obviously, "Revolutionary Road" gives a surprising but extremely realistic answer: after a short period of sweetness, they have to face the trivial and even cruel marriage and family life, the ambitious but always failed small clerks, the actress who wants to become famous, the couple has their own secret desires, but the experience and pursuit of real life has become increasingly empty, and the distant Paris, and the Paris that cannot be visited, have become their "poetry and distance".
"Revolutionary Road" is classified as a love movie, and its other translation name, "True Love Journey", seems to verify this statement, but it is really not a love film, but a real-life theme work, which accurately tells the struggle of American families in the economic recovery period after World War II, and the pain caused by the continuous loss of opportunities by individuals, and after having ambitions, people can only stand still.
Leonardo exploded in the film with amazing acting skills. In "The Revenant Hunter," which helped him win an Oscar, the audience remembers his painful expression of being torn under the bear, but in "Revolutionary Road", when arguing with his wife, his expression is even more terrifying than the scene of being bitten by a bear.
This makes people think deeply, how much pain does a failed marriage give to man? If you have the opportunity to watch "Revolutionary Road", you must not forget to replay it several times, to see Leonardo's anger gushing out from the heart, how to stretch the blood vessels of his face, how to flow through the cells of his face, you can clearly observe the whole process of a man's collapse, that moment, leonardo's character's inner storm, can be comparable to Hurricane Katrina.
The characters portrayed in "Revolutionary Road", although they lived in the 1950s, are not at all outdated in today's view. There are many overlaps between the current atmosphere of the times and the environment in which "Revolutionary Road" takes place, such as worrying about the state of economic development, nostalgia for the happy family model that has been hard to establish, fear of various unknown elements, tearing due to inconsistent pursuit of life goals, etc., which will make the current audience feel shocked, how many people are afraid of Leonardo's grumpy roar in the film? Because the voice he makes is precisely the voice that some of us try to restrain from being heard by others.
The ancient Roman poet Horace said, "The pain of the heart is more than the pain of the body", throughout the ages, the narrative core of most classic literary and artistic works is to show the pain of the mind that is much greater than the pain of the body, and it is precisely because of the variability and elusiveness of the inner world that it has created its marine characteristics - because of fluctuations and never frozen, the biggest attraction of "The Road to Revolution" is also this, compared to a pool of stagnant water, the storm can intensify contradictions, find contradictions, and resolve contradictions.
Rather than always accepting only the pleasure of the heart, I think more people still want to accept the test of pain, because without pain, there will be a lack of sensitivity to love and joy, and without earth-shattering waves, they will not experience the great peace and happiness that occur when the wind and waves are calm. Although the ending of "Revolutionary Road" does not provide a solution for the audience, it gives a clear hint: in the face of daily changes in life, we can only have a scrutinizing attitude at all times, in order not to be involved in the whirlpool, unable to get rid of, the so-called "revolutionary road" is to strive to leave, overcome and surpass mediocrity.
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