Posts Tagged ‘Revolutionary Road’

  • Away We Go: Finding truth in facades??
    A very simple take on Away we go would be that it is a testament of Sam Mendes’s love for dysfunctional families. And in fact this take wouldn’t at all be entirely incorrect. American Beauty, Revolutionary Road and now Away We Go. He loves American dystopia. Away We Go actually is a nice romantic indie with some genuine laughs and smiles. Only if this film had aspired...
    by Gaurang at September 26th, 2009 at 11:09 am
  • The Requiem Or the Dream ?
    “What man of you, having an hundred sheep if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?” Luke 15:4 Whether it’s Paulo Coelho’s “The Alchemist” or “The Zahir“, the recurrent dream, the pursuit of a goal has been a winner’s...
    by Subhasish Chakraborty at May 27th, 2009 at 02:05 pm
  • “Revolutionary Road”: Bleak, Bold and Brilliant
    Once you are done with your board exams, and the laundry-list of competitive exams which follow, there is a lull-period of almost three months before you actually join college. People do all kinds of stuff during that time: some learn how to drive(and then proceed to channelize messrs Schumacher, Hamilton and Raikkonen), some take to uselessly useful stuff like the odd...
    by Aditya Mani Jha at January 6th, 2009 at 04:01 am
  • Road To Perdition: A Modern Classic
    iView Author: Aditya Mani Jha (Kharagpur, West Bengal) Email: amj91288 [at] gmail [dot] com Road To Perdition: A Modern Classic “Road To Perdition” is perhaps one of the most under-rated films of recent times. This 2002 film, directed by Sam Mendes(of American Beauty fame), was appreciated for its performances(though not nearly enough) but criticised...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at July 12th, 2008 at 12:07 am