For those of you who did not follow OSCARS , this film was nominated in the best film category and some more categories...
I watched the movie last night and was shocked to find that how much i could relate to it .....
RR is not only the name of the street were the characters live but also the road they try to take to fill up the "hopeless emptiness" of life ....
Yes the HOPELESS EMPTINESS........
Thats wat life becomes , when we get disillusioned by the conformism of the society ... we grow up being told to want a good job and marriage and family .. and in the process of doing so we loose out on living life ... thats when life becomes empty ...and it takes a mental patient in this film to realise that this emptiness is hopeless... ppl live hoping to arrive in life and start living it ,,, while life passes you by and you reach your old age and realise that you still havent arrived and you are about to die..
We get into the comfort zone of our life , as we grow up and grow in our careers our lifestyle changes and it becomes more and more expensive. Suddenly there is a point when you realise that this is not what you want from life ... u dont wanna spend your life working 10 hrs a day and not really enjoying what you do...
but by then its too late ... you are trapped ..you are caged ... you want out but you dont have the guts for it ... you are too secured in the emptiness of your life to want to venture out .... but the spirit within you dies .... life just becomes a chore .....
The Revolutionary Road is about having the guts to get out of this confrming life and doing what you want to do ... but to do it you have to take the risk of failing and starting from the scratch ...which most of us are scared to do ...
Why i could relate to this !!! well , at the moment i do feel caged sometimes but the door of the cage is still not locked ... I try not to feel too secured with the job I have and the money that I earn .... dont get into credit , keep a inexpensive lifestyle , doesnt matter how many promotions I get ..... and always imagine the worst case scenario and say to myself ... thats not too bad :O)
However this movie potrays the fear that I have ... of getting stuck in a life that I dont want .... after all , you always know your own self .. and as far as I know myself .... I have the wanderlust;) ....
3 comments:
"... we grow up being told to want a good job and marriage and family .. and in the process of doing so we loose out on living life ... thats when life becomes empty"....
i admit that in a way different from your view as stated further.....u make life hopelessly empty for yourself...u choose to bind yourself by conformism.....no one asks you to earn a good living to stay out of the conformism....even if you are earning good you are bound by conformisms...so go and get a life and stop blaming the exisitng system before you can create a different one....
In your job, in your family, in your marriage you do find the fullness and happiness....in your own way...the thing is you need to find it out for yourself....no one will find it out for you....away from this you wouldn't have had an opportunity to mark the word "Life", ...u cannot just sit and blame the conformism of society for your life being empty...we and "YOU" have every right to lead a life as "we" and "you" wish...but for that be brave enough to face the so called society as it is, neither the world nor the society is going to change as per your convenience and will..."Escapism" can no way fill your life...accept that first....things will fall in place...try being responsible and answerable to yourself first, society comes only after you know who you are and what you want to do...
Absolutely agree with u ... but not required in the context of the movie.
Definitely one can choose whether to abide by the conformism of the society , but lets accept it ... its easier said than done for most people ...
Human race has probably gone through thousands of years of construction and conformism .. one cant be so hard on them and say .. its just a matter of choice ...
Talk about being responsible and answerable to urself !! not everyone has the privilege of just
being responsible for onself ... that wat makes it difficult to choose to be a "non conformist" ..heck!! look around you and you ll find thousands of examples...
Priority is a matter to be decided by oneself....no matter whether u r only responsible for urself or the entire world.....
secondly....its not about being bound by conformism..rather making oneself happy with all that they have and in the process for craving more not blaming the world for the way it is....
Doubtlessly, if you are happy and satisfied...then world is so...look within and then beyond....
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