Open Access“I Saw a Different Life. I Can't Stop Seeing It”: Perfectionist Visions inRevolutionary Road
Author(s) -
Paul Deb
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
film-philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.112
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1466-4615
DOI - 10.3366/film.2021.0175
Subject(s) - vision , conversation , relation (database) , politics , aesthetics , identification (biology) , sociology , media studies , literature , art , political science , law , communication , computer science , anthropology , botany , database , biology
In this article, I claim that Sam Mendes’ Revolutionary Road (2008) is a recent version of the film genre that Stanley Cavell calls the “melodrama of the unknown woman”. Accordingly, my discussion focuses on two key elements of that identification: the film's overriding dramatic and thematic emphasis on conversation, and the central characters’ relation to the wider social and political concerns of America.