“Revolutionary Road” is the latest movie that brings Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio together. The movie is a somber adaptation of the 1961 novel written by Richard Yates and its horror action is set in the 1950s suburbia. According to Washington Post, “Revolutionary Road,” directed by Sam Mendes, is austere, controlled and draws a sad story at the same time.

Frank Wheeler (Leonardo DiCaprio) and April Wheeler (Kate Winslet) have not yet reached a desperate status at the beginning of the movie. Frank works for a business machine company in Manhattan and slowly copies the life that his father had had.

April stays at home and brings up their two children. Her life is miserable, as she had tried before to find her way as an artist in a community theater production of "The Petrified Forest" but failed in accomplishing it. The action of the movie takes place during a hot summer, while Frank and April do their best to live a happy life.

Yet, Frank cheats on April with a secretary who works at the company (Zoe Kazan) while April dreams about moving to Paris, the city which Frank had visited during the war. Apparently, Paris is the place that April considers to be the best representation of her meaning of happiness.

A quite bad thing about “Revolutionary Road” is that it describes some experiences and draws some characters that couldn’t have existed during the 1950s. April draws the character representing the unhappy woman who stays at home, years before psychologists didn’t even try to write about this problem.

On the other hand, Frank is confronted with some complex problems which couldn’t have existed at that time. All in all, the movie stops at describing the desperation of a family and doesn’t go further on describing its real environment too.