Revolutionary Road

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CHARLIE ROSE: So what’s interesting to me about it is it also, in
these two characters, embodies this basic dichotomy between freedom and
order, between wanderlust and responsibility, all that.

SAM MENDES: Well, it’s -- I think what moves me most about the book
and what movie me about the movie, I hope moves other people, is that they
so desperately want to remain together. You know...

CHARLIE ROSE: Above all.

SAM MENDES: Yes, and I think it’s -- but it’s a tragic love story.
At the end of the day, it is about two people who want to remain together,
but are being pulled apart by circumstance. You know, but it is also about
something very central, I think, to thinking now about relationships. And
this is something which makes it, I think, not just a period piece, which
is there is this universal theme in the middle of the movie about how do
you take control of your life if one day you wake up in your mid-30s and
you are not living the life you want to live.

CHARLIE ROSE: That’s I think the subtext.

SAM MENDES: So I think a lot of people live lives, find themselves
living lives that they didn’t expect to live, that they didn’t want to
live, compromising, compromising with their partner or their home or their
job or any number of things.

CHARLIE ROSE: Education and mortgages.

SAM MENDES: All of those things. I’m a big believer in, you know, I
think I may have said this on the show before, that life is diamond-shaped.
You know what I mean? And you know, for a while in your life, you know,
the possibilities are endless and perspectives, you know, that the world
seems boundless and full of possibility.

But at a certain point, you know, those lines start drawing in, and
you make your choices. You know, who are you, what do you do. Who are you
married to, do you want to have children. Now you can’t have a
relationship with another person because you have committed to this. You
can’t have another job because you have committed to this.

CHARLIE ROSE: Life is about choice.

SAM MENDES: So life starts going inwards. And at that point, people,
some people start to panic. You know, what happens when life goes inwards
and you haven’t made those choices or you have been unaware of making those
choices? And how do you get it back? You have one chance -- I think Yates
says this -- one chance to get your life back, to recapture the dreams when
you were 18, 19.

CHARLIE ROSE: And how do you know when that moment is?

SAM MENDES: Well, I think most people do know. I think most people
do know that there is a moment when they realize they’ve made a mistake,
and they might be -- there might be a chance to escape. And that doesn’t
mean necessarily divorce. It means to re -- to begin their life again, you
know. Everyone, in the context of this movie, you know, Kate’s character
is obsessed with refinding the love they once had and the belief that they
could have a life that was fulfilling.

CHARLIE ROSE: And how often do you think that happens? If, in fact,
you, for all the reasons we talk about, lose the love, you can somehow
refind it?

SAM MENDES: Well, in April’s case, the character, she pins all her
hopes on something that he promised her when they first met, which was that
they would go to Paris and they would live a life in Paris. And Paris was
unlike everywhere else.

But Paris is a metaphor in the movie and in the book. Everyone has
their Paris. Everyone has their -- the place where they were, where
everything was possible. You know?

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