Last night I watched the movie Revolutionary Road starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. I really just want to tell the world how I feel about this movie! First of all, I watched it mainly because Kate Winslet is in it and she's my favorite actress. Also, I've read the book so I was prepared for how depressing and bleak it was going to be.
This movie was fantastically crafted. The acting was impeccable, the camera angles/lighting/cinematography was awesome (like I know much about that!), and the screenplay was very well written.
Ok, now on to what I really want to say. These kinds of movies always make me so sad (obvi) because these people, not just the characters but the filmmakers and actors, live hopeless lives without the Lord! Basically the whole movie is about how this couple thought they were special and feel they have wasted their lives by settling down in suburbia. So they realize that they are not different from anyone else and everyone really comes to bad ends. As I watched the behind the scenes featurette the director, Sam Mendes, said that 90-95% of people today live in the "hopeless emptiness" of life because they don't have the courage to do what they really want to. I just wonder if Mendes really feels truly satisfied at the end of the day? I'm sure that all those people really love what they're doing and they worked really hard to get where they are, but that can't escape "hopeless emptiness". It really saddens me how many people realize that they are missing out on something huge in life, but just can't figure out what it is.
I feel like the characters in the movie sometimes, too. Sure, there are about a thousand things that I might really be happy doing that I don't have the courage to pursue. But I really have to stop myself because the Lord doesn't necessarily want me doing those things, He wants me working for his plan. Which I will be happy doing!...if only I could figure out what that is!
I really enjoy this quote because it calms my fears about my future and my past:
"We spend most of our lives trying to make things happen for ourselves...But life is not reduced to what you give or know or achieve. Nor is it reduced to your mistakes, your failures or your sin. Life isn't even defined by whom you love. Rather it is defined by the God who loves you. In other words, you are not the central character-not even of your own life's story. This is not meant to demeant you; it is meant to set you free."
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