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Revolutionary Road (2008)

Starring: Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio
Director: Sam Mendes
Country: USA
Genre: Drama

There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home.

There’s an elephant in suburbia’s room that not many people acknowledge. The idea of being trapped in the facade of the American Dream isn’t anything new, but Mendes’s newest descent into the material is even more harrowing than his ‘99 effort American Beauty. Though it’s set in the 50s when women’s rights hadn’t yet been fully recognized, the film still rings completely relevant. DiCaprio and Winslet reunite to completely destroy the fantasy love story they created in Titanic, and they have such a strong chemistry, it’s hard not to believe their troublesome woes. Don’t go into this film lightly, as it’s not even just an attack on domestic life, but on all lives who have allowed their dreams to slip through their fingers. It’s not pretty.

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