Yes, but typing that whole thing into Babelfish, hitting “English-to-French,” then copy-pasting it back into here is a bit more work than I was looking to do at the moment.

“The suburbs are filled with as many unique, interesting people living their lives on their own terms as any other place from penthouses to poorhouses.”

Friend, I live there. No they ain’t Like all other landmarks of the “mainstream” of society, ‘The Burbs’ are alternately openly or subtextually hostile to that which doesn’t “fit” to one degree or another. Just the way it is. If it WEREN’T, you wouldn’t see the creative industries so jam-packed with ‘different’ folks who fled them… and now take their revenge (such as it is) by eviscerating their tormentors in image, word and lyric. Generalization? Sure. And like all generalizations, it’s more true than the generaliz-ee in question wants to admit.

Though, even if they WERE, it’d be a moot point since I was speaking of (pretty plainly, I’d ad) “The societal system that needs to be at work in a suburb of the type seen in Revolutionary Road.” This specific place, of this specific type, time and place, in this specific movie. That’s the story of the book and the film it’s been adapted-into: Two people discovering that the place they’ve found themselves living is anathema to the type of people they are (or were, or thought they were - the question of which one it is is kind of the key to the drama) - one accepts it, the other cannot, both are devastated by the other’s choice.

Could you be more pretentious?

The suburbs are filled with as many unique, interesting people living their lives on their own terms as any other place from penthouses to poorhouses. The idea that suburban life is uniquely stifling is precisely the Kool-Aid Hollywood has been peddling for the past few decades, and you’ve been drinking it.

Surroundings effect a people about as much as people effect their surroundings. The societal system that needs to be at work in a suburb of the type seen in Revolutionary Road requires the subsuming of individuality and the self into a collective conformity in order to create a “bubble zone” of superficial stability and middling comfort. Since that’s not really the way human beings are naturally “wired” for the most part, and since some of us are better (if we so choose) at resisting it than others, you’re going to get some friction.

Didn’t you see “Sense and Sensibility”? What about “Titanic”.

This movie sounds like the mere opposite of Frank Capra, as if the fiends of the underworld concocted a dark looking glass where the diametric antithesis of a perfect movie was born: a perfectly bad movie.

Take out the lazy cliche about the gay Marine and you’ve got a damn near perfect film.