April and Frank’s last breakfast was peaceful. The day before, April was so irritable that she ran away from home. On this day, she thoughtfully asked Frank about scrambled eggs or poached eggs, and asked him about his new job. Even when Frank carefully asked April if she still hated him, April only gently shook her head, said "No, of course not", and then sorted his tie intimately.
Aipley made the best effort to paralyze herself. She tried to continue to live in pain between the hopeless kitchen and living room, but in the end she chose to drain the third child out of her belly with a rubber suction device. April's original intention was not to repeat the absurd trajectory of "using the second child to prove that it was not a mistake to give birth to the first child". Unexpectedly, she dyed her culottes and lost her life because of her determination.
The picture of April standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows when she was bleeding from her lower body was distressing. She used to long for the sunlight outside the window so strongly, but she could only be trapped in the square meter house inside the window. She was ready to paralyze herself, and accompanied Frank to stay in the breathless suffocation, but life in such a dramatic form allowed her to completely get rid of the shackles.
I've been thinking about the significance of the tragic ending of the April-style marriage. Why did Yates write April so cruelly? Later, I realized that there is no reason for unfortunate marriages. How many people romantically look forward to staying with their loved ones, only to find out that marriage has become a tomb of love, and that people in it may have long since died. Yates just magnified this tragedy to make viewers more aware that all marriages are on thin ice.
The casting of "Road to Revolution" is quite clever, Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCapLeo once starred in "Titanic" together, and in this movie he co-starred in an unfortunate couple. There is a high praise short comment in the Douban movie, "If Jack climbed on the plank back then, he and Ruth are this kind of virtue now." If it is normal for the hot love to survive the cliché days, then cherish the happy ones. Reinforce the crumbling ones, tighten the ones that are still in love, and walk away if you don't love them.
No couple in "Road to Revolution" is happy. Sheep’s love for Millie is more out of gratitude. The reason why Mrs. Givens married Givens is because “girls didn’t like her when she was in school, and boys didn’t like her when she grew up. And Howard Givens He was the only man who proposed to her.” Even the Blaises, who later moved into April and Frank’s original house, were separated by the distance they were seated, which probably predicted the future of their marriage.
These characters are always conservative in their exploration of marriage outlets. They are hovering between separation and inseparability. As long as there are no ramblings in their ordinary life, they are unwilling to escape for no reason. But to a certain extent, this conservative concept has formed a barrier for their long-term marriage stability. The Xuepus and the Givens have been with each other for so many years.
, on the contrary, will roar like the fierce tiger in April, who never expects to be stable, but people who are desperately paralyzed by life are the most unfortunate. has seen the truth of marriage, but people who are willing to have superficial happiness as always, and people who have seen the truth of marriage but reluctantly, as always, can hardly have even superficial happiness. The ending of "Road to Revolution" may not be to teach people despair, but to provide us with another outlet for marriage: it is more comfortable to change your mind than to indulge in misfortune.
The story of "Road to Revolution" did not stop after April's death. Instead, it took a long time to write other people's practices and comments on this tragedy. Among them, Millie happily told outsiders about the results of April's abortion and sent to hospital, over and over again. Although Millie was sincerely sorry for Frank at first, she was so scared that she didn't dare to look at Frank.
Many people always stay out of the way when talking about people who are unhappy in marriage, expressing desires more than emotional catharsis. Some people themselves make their marriage a grief, and after all, they have to become outsiders’ conversations. For example, April and Frank spent their entire lives searching for who they were, but they were sadly defined in the mouths of others.
But a person's life is probably a life under scrutiny, and we cannot stand still because of fear of others' evaluations. On Valentine’s Day a few days ago, a Weibo blogger recommended nine love movies suitable for couples. "Road to Revolution" was on the list. At first I was puzzled, but then I understood:
. If you want to be frequently poured cold water under the gap between imagination and reality, and you have to live on the sidelines of other people's remarks, but still choose to bravely love with the people around you, love can last forever.
