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Jacki Garfinkel on Aug 18, 2009 at 8:15PM

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Revolutionary Road

Though Revolutionary Road featured the reunion of Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio—which we had been waiting for since Titanic—its significance was much deeper than that. Revolutionary Road is a poignant film, and though it's not a feel-good movie, it makes viewers look inside themselves and evaluate their own relationships. The dialogue between Kate and Leo is profound, but one line, said by Oscar nominee Michael Shannon's character, takes the cake.

John Givings: Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.