Another kwel stuff from Sam Mendes………..
A realistic one – about unhappy marriage ! And ,ofcourse, there are lots of jittery cigarette smoking and sloshed-down booze scenes and few ones with Mendes’ own signature (esp scenes pivoted around Zoe Kazan -
No wonder why the New York Magazine was concerned about those issues -
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/11/zoe_kazan_on_the_difference_between_nude_scenes_and_ones_in_panties.html); so no worries why it carried ‘R’ certificate…)
But , well back to our topic, RR is the kind of great novel that Hollywood tends to botch.
NYT noted”: “Paris will be their way out of suburbia and the ticky-tacky little box on a hillside on that cruelly named street, Revolutionary Road. But it’s also clear from the deadening claustrophobia of Sam Mendes’s visual style and the pounding monotony of Thomas Newman’s score that their exit is blocked.” OK, fine..
Dargis continues: ” Mr. Mendes’s investment in this story feels professional, diagnostic. Part of what makes the novel so powerful, beyond its familiar American theme of self-discovery, is its unwavering fury and how each intimate and acid word feels personal, as if Yates had dredged them up from some place deep inside his own being.” OK..OK..OK..
But a question: I can comprehend why there is a close similarity in the notes when it comes to the sound tracks of Saw and Dead Silence (as both are from Wan!); but why such a similarity between RR and Scent of a woman ?
I am perplexed! But, still I am sure, it is a movie worth watching ………. 4.5 times better than SDM 
