I wasn’t too familiar with the storyline when I started watching this film and the beginning seemed very promising… but then everything just got strange. A motionless family-life and a hope to escape the emptiness of social standards by pursuing a life in Paris – like I said, since I didn’t know what to expect I was a bit taken aback. I’m not saying Revolutionary Road was a bad film, or a boring one, and had I been prepared for this kind of a story, I most likely would have appreciated it more while watching. Now that I’ve had time to think it over, the story and the subjects it touches, are thought-provoking, even distressing at times. Even though the film is set in the 1950s, some of the topics are still relevant today. Back then, the norms of how to live a normal life were much more strict but even today, when freedom in any form is greatly encouraged and appreciated, people trap themselves in meagre lives, dull themselves into mediocrity and ordinariness. So it makes me wonder, how much has really changed?