Revolutionary Road
2008. Directed by Sam Mendes. Screenplay Justin Haythe from the novel by Richard Yates. With Leonardo DiCaprio & Kate Winslet.
What is it to abandon the promise one’s made to oneself?
Deep in the code of our inherited male narrative, woman as the portal for life, the mother, is idolized into deepfreeze or reframed as burden; either way a method for crippling and containing. This tends to turn women’s great gift for birthing life into nightmare by way of elaborate, mostly repressed mechanisms that block and bind us, setting our biology in opposition to any discovery of what womanhood might be, might be becoming once separated from reproduction. Which is underway. There is no turning back…
Read the entire Discourse in Our Promise Parlor part one Revolutionary Road
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