Based on a novel by Richard Yates, which tells the story of an unhappy marriage, the new movie “Revolutionary Road” stars Kate Winslet opposite Leonardo DiCaprio as April and Frank Wheeler, a couple striving to push their life to meet their expectations and views upon themselves and how life should be.

Trapped inside a maze of disappointment and delusion, feeding on the strong belief that they are different from and superior to other people, Frank and April are trying to escape the humdrum of the suburban life they have fallen prey to.

Feeling nothing but contempt for each other, the two are merely by-standers to their dissolution as a couple, thrust back and forth between the issues at work and those at home, which at some point, render Frank to have a brief relationship with another woman.

The only moment they seem to have found a way to make things work is when April decides that she, Frank and their two children should move to Paris, where the woman thinks her husband could become the kind of man she wants him to be.

As bitter irony, there is actually no means of escape from the Revolutionary Road street on which the Wheelers live, as there is no possibility of a “revolution” within the couple to set their relationship and their lives on a new foundation, that of their haunting hopes and dreams.

The movie, set in mid-1950s, was directed by Kate Winslet’s husband Sam Mendes, while Yates’ novel was adapted into a screenplay by Justin Haythe.