Critical Culture: Revolutionary Road
Problem is the 60s-novel's satire of the 50s is stale in the 00s. Without a backbone of literary goodness (haven't read the novel, just assuming it had one), the film fails to be anything more than a dated, well-acted, badly-realized melodrama—rather: badly-realized bad melodrama: Mendes must be a Douglas Sirk literalist. More than that, it's a movie during which people keep yelling at each other that isn't the least-bit exciting or entertaining.
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