急求《革命之路》的英文影评!

发布网友发布时间：2022-05-06 18:54

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热心网友时间：2023-09-11 06:22

你好， cpu土豆大哥。
援引国外某影评人，其中不乏对影片深刻的理解和电影艺术手段的分析，文章结构相当精湛，简短精要，你可以藉以参考润色，希望能帮得上你的忙。
Bottom Line: A marriage crumbles in this didactic, emotionally overblown critique of the soulless suburbs

The initial audience for this pungent critique of the soul-damaging, ball-busting desolation of the American suburbs of the postwar era might be "Titanic's" Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet reunite in "Revolutionary Road," only instead of their characters finding themselves on a sinking ship in 1912, they run aground in a disastrous mid-1950s marriage.

In the bad-marriage movie sweepstakes, "Revolutionary Road" is no "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" But when sheer nastiness seizes its characters, the vindictiveness and emotional damage are breathtaking. Here's the real difference: In "Virginia Woolf," George and Martha are locked into a symbiotic, disturbingly needy relationship that absolutely feed off their acidic battles. But for "Revolutionary Road's" Frank and April Wheeler, you wonder: Why don't they just get a divorce?

The initial audience for this pungent critique of the soul-damaging, ball-busting desolation of the American suburbs of the postwar era might be large. Younger audiences will be curious about the DiCaprio/Winslet reteaming, while older viewers might gravitate toward an old-fashioned domestic drama, the kind that more or less disappeared from cinemas once sci-fi, fantasy and horror took over. Yet the fragile foundation for all the marital histrionics in "Revolutionary Road" might lead to tepid word-of-mouth.

Justin Haythe's script and Sam Mendes' direction hew closely to Richard Yates' 1961 novel. Which means it fails to escape the novelist's misogyny and contempt for anything suburban. The phrase seized upon in both works is "hopeless emptiness." It's apt.

Frank (DiCaprio) and April (Winslet) are indivials born with an innate sense of superiority but absolutely no ambition. So finding themselves married with two young children and living in Connecticut, they are frustrated and bored. Her solution: Sell everything and move to Paris where they will get in touch with their inner bohemian.

He likes the idea for a while. Then, when a promotion at his Manhattan firm from a soulless job into a much better paying soulless job emerges, he sours on the idea. Her pregnancy because of bad family planning seems to settle the issue. But Frank hasn't calculated on a stubbornness and selfishness in April worse even than his own.

The Great Paris Getaway scheme is strewn with alteries on both sides -- his with an office bimbo (Zoe Kazan) and hers with the boorish next-door neighbor (David Harbour) -- intrusions by busybodies like their happily chirping Realtor (fellow "Titanic" alum Kathy Bates) and the story's own Greek chorus. The latter is the Realtor's institutionalized son (Michael Shannon).

The moment he walks into the Wheeler household, he cuts through all the b.s. as he immediately discerns the couple's tenuous relationship. He asks all the right, damaging questions and makes all the right, devastatingly accurate observations. So in this tale of suburbia the only fellow who understands anything is the one on a four-hour pass from the funny farm.

"Revolutionary Road" is, essentially, a repeat for Mendes of "American Beauty," right down to the formal camera compositions, repetitive musical chords and shocking death at the end. Once more, the suburbs are well-upholstered nightmares and its denizens clueless -- other than one estranged male.

Clearly, this environment attracts the dramatic sensibilities of this theater-trained director. Everything is boldly indicated to the audience from arch acting styles to the wink-wink, nod-nod of its design. Indeed his actors play the subtext with such fury that the text virtually disappears. Subtlety is not one of Mendes' strong suits.

The movie mostly finds its dramatic rhythms in the, yes, titanic quarrels between its married couple. These lack for true wit or appreciation of rhetoric. Yet they are as toxic, hateful and desperate as any ever committed to the screen between a husband and wife.

热心网友时间：2023-09-11 06:22

看太久了，一时半会儿写不出来

你结合自己看法，借用人家语言，试着写写吧^_^

http://www.hollywood.com/movie/Revolutionary_Road/3462220(这里有电影简介和一些comments)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0016Q2D66/ref=nosim/paramountcom-20 （这里有editorial review和customer reviews）
http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/12/26/movies/26road.html?scp=4&sq=revolutionary%20road&st=cse（这是在The Newyork Times上不错的一篇movie review，完整、正式，可以参考一下）

热心网友时间：2023-09-11 06:22

I just watch a film called revolutionary road.it talks about a married couple in the 1950s, have always seen themselves as special, different, ready and willing to live their lives based on higher ideals. So, as soon as they move into their new house on Revolutionary Road, they proudly declare their independence from the suburban inertia that surrounds them and determine never to be trapped by the social confines of their era. Yet for all their charm, beauty and irreverence, a good man with a routine job whose nerve has gone missing; a less-than-happy homemaker starving for fulfillment and passion; an American family with lost dreams, like any other. Driven to change their fates, April hatches an audacious plan to start all over again, to leave the comforts of Connecticut behind for the great unknown of Paris. But when the plan is put in motion, each spouse is pushed to extremes–one to escape whatever the cost, the other to save all that they have, no matter the compromises.

this is one of my favorite films.the movie is old news because of all of those other Ice Storm, America Beauty ect movies. But all those started with this book, I think. So in that way, it's been done but it is also original. But really, Leo and Kate are miscast for this if you do read the book you see they don't really physically match the characters--even though they are both great actors. I also heard a great thing on NPR about how Sam Mendes is a great director, but a poor fit for this story, and I agree.

第一段是影片简介，第二段是看法。

第二段来自别人博客，对影片的感想。

热心网友时间：2023-09-11 06:23

大家回答都不错就不多嘴啦