Revolutionary Road tells the story of April and Frank, a middle-class suburban couple who are dissatisfied with the uniformity and monotony of their everyday lives, in which they are comfortably off and on the surface embody the American Dream, an affluent family living in Suburban Conneticut. April aspires to leave behind the suburbs and start a new life in Paris, taking her family with her. She, especially, is unfulfilled by her life in suburbia, and feels that a move to Paris will give her the urban vibe she so desperatley craves, and will get her away from what she sees as a cultural wasteland. However, Frank, although at first dissatisfied with his office job, is offered a promotion and feels compelled to stay. this shows how the capatilist structure entraps people into a cycle of monotony that is manifested in Suburbia. This is also shown through the attitudes of their neighbours who disapprove of their idea and find it absurd, and question why anybody would want to change from the suburban lifestyle.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/film-review-revolutionary-road-1003897431.story
This reveiw lambasts the film as "a didactic, emotionally overblown critique of the soulless suburbs". It does take into account that the suburbs are anomic and culturally vapid, and deals with the question that neither can be satisfied there, arguing claiming that both April and Frank are equally as bad as each other- "But Frank hasn't calculated on a stubbornness and selfishness in April worse even than his own."
The review ultimatley is negative of the film, drawing similarities between Titanic and American Beauty, Mendes' previous work
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