Revolutionary Road (2008)

Kate Winslet: April Wheeler

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• April Wheeler : Tell me the truth, Frank, remember that? We used to live by it. And you know what's so good about the truth? Everyone knows what it is however long they've lived without it. No one forgets the truth, Frank, they just get better at lying.

• April Wheeler : So now I'm crazy because I don't love you, right? Is that the point?

  Frank Wheeler : No! Wrong! You're not crazy, and you do love me. That's the point, April.

  April Wheeler : But I don't. I hate you. You were just some boy who made me laugh at a party once, and now I loathe the sight of you. In fact, if you come any closer, if you touch me or anything, I think I'll scream.

  Frank Wheeler : Oh, come on, stop this April.

  [He touches her for an instant and she screams at the top of her lungs before walking away. He chases after her] 

  Frank Wheeler : Fuck you, April! Fuck you and all your hateful, goddamn...

  [He breaks a chair against a wall] 

  April Wheeler : What are you going to do now? Are you going to hit me? To show me how much you love me?

  Frank Wheeler : Don't worry, I can't be bothered! You're not worth the trouble it would take to hit you! You're not worth the powder it would take to blow you up. You are an empty, empty, hollow shell of a woman. I mean, what the hell are you doing in my house if you hate me so much? Why the hell are you married to me? What the hell are you doing carrying my child? I mean, why didn't you just get rid of it when you had the chance? Because listen to me, listen to me, I got news for you - I wish to God that you had!

• April Wheeler : If being crazy means - living life as if it matters, then I don't care if we're completely insane. Do you?

• Frank Wheeler : I've been with a girl a few times. In the city. A girl I hardly even know, who is nothing to me. But it's over now, really over. And if I weren't sure of that, then I guess I could never have told you about it.

  April Wheeler : Why did you?

  Frank Wheeler : Baby, I don't know... I guess it's a simple case of wanting to be a man again after all that abortion business, some kind of neurotic, irrational need to prove something...

  April Wheeler : No. I don't mean why did you have the girl, I mean, why did you tell me about it?

  Frank Wheeler : What do you mean?

  April Wheeler : I mean, what's the point? Is it supposed to make me jealous or something? Is it supposed to make me fall in love with you or back into bed with you or what? What would you like me to say Frank?

  Frank Wheeler : Why don't you say what you feel, April?

  April Wheeler : I don't feel anything.

  Frank Wheeler : In other words, you don't care what I do, or who I fuck or anything, hum?

  April Wheeler : No, I guess that's right, I don't. Fuck who you like.

• April Wheeler : Don't you see? That's the whole idea! You'll be able to do what you should have been allowed to do seven years ago, you'll have the time. For the first time in your life, you'll have the time to find out what it is you actually want to do. And when you figure it out, you'll have the time and the freedom, to start doing.

  Frank Wheeler : This doesn't seem very realistic.

  April Wheeler : No, Frank. This is what's unrealistic. It's unrealistic for a man with a fine mind to go on working year after year at a job he can't stand. Coming home to a place he can't stand, to a wife who's equally unable to stand the same things. And you know what the worst part of it is? Our whole existence here is based on this great premise that we're special. They we're superior to the whole thing. But we're not. We're just like everyone else! We bought into the same, ridiculous delusion. That we have to resign from life and settle down the moment we have children. And we've been punishing each other for it.

• April Wheeler : I saw a whole other future. I can't stop seeing it.

• April Wheeler : Who made these rules anyway?

• Shep Campbell : You just... wanted out, huh?

  April Wheeler : I wanted *in*. I just... I just wanted us to live again. For years I thought we've shared this secret... that we would be wonderful in the world. I didn't exactly know how, but just... just the possibility kept me hoping.

  [takes a cigarette cush] 

  April Wheeler : How pathetic is that? So stupid. To put all your hopes in... in a promise that was never made. See, Frank knows. He knows what he wants. He's found his place. He's just fine. Married, two kids. It should be enough.

  [takes a sip of martini] 

  April Wheeler : It is for him. And he's right. We were never special or destined or anything at all.

• April Wheeler : Just because you've got me safe in this little trap, you think you can bully me into feeling whatever you want me to feel!

• [first lines] 

  Frank Wheeler : So, what do you do?

  April Wheeler : I'm studying to be an actress. You?

  Frank Wheeler : I'm a longshoreman.

  April Wheeler : No, I mean, really.

  Frank Wheeler : I mean really, too. Although starting next Monday I'm doing something a little more glamorous.

  April Wheeler : What's that?

  Frank Wheeler : Night cashier at a cafeteria.

  April Wheeler : I don't mean how you make money. I mean, what are you interested in?

  Frank Wheeler : Honey, if I had the answer to that one, I bet I'd bore us both to death in half an hour.

• April Wheeler : You'll what? You'll leave me? Is that a threat or a promise?

• April Wheeler : You've never tried at anything. And if you don't try at anything, you can't fail.

• April Wheeler : Frank Wheeler, I think you're the most interesting person I've ever met.

• April Wheeler : Won't you miss the city?

  Frank Wheeler : Nothing's permanent, right?

  April Wheeler : Right.

• Frank Wheeler : You know what this is like? April, honestly? This talking like this. The whole, the whole idea of, of going off to Europe this way. This is the way I felt going up to the line, the first time, in the war. I mean, I was, I was probably just as scared as everyone else; but, but inside, I never felt better. I felt, I felt alive! I felt full of blood! I felt - everything just - everything seemed more real. The guys in the uniforms. The snow on the fields. The trees. And all of us, all of us, just, walking. I mean, I-I was scared, of course; but, I just kept thinking, this is it, you know! This - is the truth!

  April Wheeler : I felt that way once too.

  Frank Wheeler : When?

  April Wheeler : The first time you made love to me.

• April Wheeler : Are you still talking? Isn't there any way to stop your talking? I need to think! Can't you see that? I need to think!

• Frank Wheeler : Everything you're saying makes sense; if I had a definite talent, if I were a writer or an artist.

  April Wheeler : Listen, listen to me. It's what you are that's being stifled. It's what you are that's being denied and denied, in this kind of life.

  Frank Wheeler : Then, what's that?

  April Wheeler : Don't you know? You're the most beautiful and wonderful thing in the world. - - You're a man.

• Frank Wheeler : Well I support you, don't I? I work ten hours a day at a job I can't stand!

  April Wheeler : You don't have to!

  Frank Wheeler : But I have the backbone not to run away from my responsibilities!

• April Wheeler : The truth is, we just need something different. You know, we're not getting any younger and we don't want life to just pass us by.

• April Wheeler : I hear you're a mathematician.

  John Givings : You hear wrong. Its all gone now.

  April Wheeler : All gone?

  John Givings : You know what electrical shock treatments are?

  April Wheeler : Yes. Yes, I do.

  John Givings : I had thirty-seven. It's supposed to jolt out the emotional problems. It just jolted out the mathematics.

• Frank Wheeler : Have you been to Paris?

  April Wheeler : I've never really been anywhere.

  Frank Wheeler : Well, maybe I'll take you with me then, huh? I'm going back the first chance I get, I tell you. People are alive there. Not like here.

• Frank Wheeler : Sweetheart, what are you talking about? Where are we going to live?

  April Wheeler : Paris!

  Frank Wheeler : What?

  April Wheeler : You always said it was the only place you'd ever been that you wanted to go back to. The only place that was worth living. So, why don't we go there?

  Frank Wheeler : You're serious?

  April Wheeler : Yes! What's stopping us?

  Frank Wheeler : What's stopping us? Well, I can think of a number of different things.

• April Wheeler : This is our chance, Frank. This is our one chance.

• April Wheeler : There are things we can do. We don't have to let this stop us from going, do we?

• April Wheeler : So, I guess Paris was a pretty childish idea, huh?

• Frank Wheeler : April, we can be happy here. I can make you happy here. We've had a great couple of months. It doesn't need to end. We're gonna be okay. I promise.

  April Wheeler : I hope so, Frank. I really hope so.

• April Wheeler : Come on, let's do it.

• April Wheeler : When I first met you, there was nothing in the world you couldn't do or be.

  Frank Wheeler : When you first met me, I was a little wise guy with a big mouth.

  April Wheeler : You were not! How can you even say that?

• Milly Campbell : We should have a toast or something. To Paris!

  Frank Wheeler : To Paris!

  April Wheeler : To Paris!

  Shep Campbell : To Paris!

• April Wheeler : Where are you going?

  Frank Wheeler : If its all right with you, April, I'm gonna go use the bathroom. Okay?