Blog #6

October 15, 2009 maxwae01

I just recently watched the movie “Revolutionary Road” with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet a movie in which shows an age when women would try self-abort on planned pregnancies. The movies is based on the novel written in 1960’s by Richard Yates. The movie makes you truly feel the depression of a woman in 1955. Frank (Leo) and April (Kate) Wheeler are married but in a rut with their lives and marriage. April wanted to be an actress but now is a housewife with two children. April tries to find a way in which they can live their lives happier and decides that they should move to Paris, she hopes this will rejuvenate their lives. April ends up getting pregnant which puts a stop it their plans moving to Paris. April is so unhappy, very depressed, and truly believes her pregnancy is wrong. She obtains the objects needed to self-abort but he husband disapproves. It makes me so uneasy to watch her life because she is truly unhappy and sees abortion as her only option. Women should not have to go through these circumstances alone and in the 50’s there was not much education on other ways of not getting pregnant and once pregnant not really options. April has to abort the child within the first twelve weeks, but goes past this time period. After an argument with her husband in which he states that he wishes she would have had the abortion, April then runs off. After her return she acts like everything is fine until Frank leaves and then she tries the abortion. Due to unclean circumstances, lack of knowledge, and going past the time period April dies from the abortion. Movies like this make individuals look at the situations in which women are unhappy and cannot fathom the idea of another child, the man does not have to have the child or stay home with the children so he does not understand. Abortion also shows the inequality between men and women, the women is the one truly going through the situation when pregnant. Yet, men can have sex with no consequences if they truly do not want the child.

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