...makes the hopeless emptiness of yesteryear look pretty good. A nice house in New York on one middling corporate guy's salary during an era of super high taxes, with the wifey free to stay home and be with the kids?
sharehaha yes! very true. I was watching this movie and thinking "oh, if they only could live in todays crazyass time, they woul think there lives much nicer and quieter".
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If you have your health, food to eat, and a roof over your head you have the world by the balls and shouldn't be looking back for fear someone may be gaining on you. Leo and Kate's characters are weak sauce whinny bitches who will never be happy because they are like jack asses on a treadmill chasing a carrot that will always remain outside their grasp. Happiness comes from within not from without. If you are the kind of person that thinks you will be happy if only you can have that girl, that job, that house, etc. you have sealed your fate that you will never be happy because there will always be something you don't have.
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I always think of it in terms of what people's lives were like a century earlier: when most people had to scratch in the dirt from dawn till dusk just to put food on the table (or not...). They needed to chop firewood for an hour to be even half warm, if they had 8 kids they'd be lucky if 2 or 3 lived to adulthood and they had to walk as much as a mile just to get water. Their homes were basically shacks, their clothes rags, they had few choices, less education and pretty much expected life to be awful.
People in these circumstances had no concept of the "emptiness of life" because their lives were "full": full of grief and sickness and labor and misery and death. They'd be pretty amazed to find out people who had been freed from all this could still be miserable.
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God was the first person to have done inception in human to question the quality of life and be unhappy no matter what the real situation of his/her life, so that human will strive for more and evolve and grow.
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Leo and Kate's characters are weak sauce whinny bitches who will never be happy because they are like jack asses on a treadmill chasing a carrot that will always remain outside their grasp.
April would never be happy. Frank resigned himself to their suburban life.
shareWell I think you are totally wrong and I grade your post D-. How do you like them apples?
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Completely agree with you. They didn't care about the house, car, children, social status, etc. That just stuff happened and they were "pulled into it" as you elude to.
What we see in the film is each having a natural reaction: April wanted to cut everything and flee from their problems and Frank tried to take more of it hoping things would change (job upgrade, better paycheck, bigger house, etc).
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I think unhappiness can occur with any married couple that doesn't have a romantic spark anymore, regardless of the economic circumstances of their day and age. There are plenty of happily-married couples in today's world.
shareto be happy, romance is not even necessary. all that is neccessary for happiness is respect, which these people in this movie had none of. THey didnt respect themselves or anyone else.
shareLol I know right but sadly for so many people happiness is based on what your interpretation of happiness is. I've seen and know many people who appear to have it all but they are never happy because its not what they wanted. They wanted to be a millionaire/billionaire/travel the world/sleep around/have this type of body/marry this type of person. The grass will always be greener on the other side, if you can't accept that you'll never be happy.
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Yeah when I saw the "sweet little house" on Revolutionary Road I sighed to myself and thought, "Ahh the good ol' days!" What I would do to, like you said, live in a period where you and your loved ones could live more than comfortably on a single income, your wife can tend to the affairs of the home and family, you can afford a lovely house for a growing family, and your neighbors and community could relate on a much more personal level and pretty much saw "eye to eye" on everything...
shareThat would be true if that's all it took to be happy.
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That would be true if that's all it took to be happy.