Didn't really sit down and watch this movie, just caught it in snatches while my brother was watching it on his computer. Directed by Sam Mendes of 'American Beauty' fame. Thought it was just going to be exactly like 'Mad Men' but a movie version, the good thing is that it was a kind of reversal of that. Not the picture perfect couple like the Drapers, who behind their seamless facade, have all sorts of problems, Leonardo di Caprio and Kate Winslet are a couple who somehow imagine themselves to be "special" and "different" from everyone else, but somehow got trapped into a conventional life. What turns out to be the real story is that maybe they aren't different at all, or at least in Leo's case, just don't have the guts to try anything at all, really. They're about to move to Paris, when Leo gets a promotion and raise and Kate gets pregnant. Kate wants to get an abortion and still move to Paris, but Leo tells her he wants another child so he can use it as an excuse to stay. Of course, in the end it comes out that he just didn't have the balls to tell her the truth, she sleeps with the neighbor, gives herself an abortion at home after the first trimester's passed, and of course dies. Last scene Leo all alone at playground, wondering what went wrong. Mendes seems to love tragic endings, and a kind of Sirkian melodrama. Overall, totally okay, except for the real-estate broker's crazy son character who has to spell everything out for the viewer.
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