Oh no, don't get me wrong, this film is pretty good, but it's hardly "Revolutionary Road", for a number of reasons.
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Even though I thought that movie was mighty cute, I can sort of respect Winslet for wanting to make up for that sappiness with the sadder romance stuff, but having "Revolutionary Road" released a few days after this film is just plain sadistic, not to people's emotions, per say, but to the quality of this film, by comparison. A lot of people in this film, such as Ralph Fiennes - who was a super-Nazi in "Schindler's List" - and Bruno Ganz, - who is playing a Holocaust survivor four years after he played Hitler - seem to be apologizing for their own Nazi pasts, but Winslet seems more interested in making up for "The Holiday". Seriously though, you do know that this is going to be quite the weighty drama, not necessarily because it's about Nazism and all of that jazz, but because it's a romantic drama starring Kate Winslet. I'd say that films dealing with Nazism seem to have lost their entertainment value ever since "Schindler's List" came in and said, "Hey, who needs a war movie where something actually happens?" (I would like to emphasize that I really like "Schindler's List", because I'm sure I'm in enough trouble for not out-and-out loving it), but "Judgment at Nuremberg", way back in 1961, was three hours of a trial, and it was good and interesting enough without all of the sex scenes.
It's a period drama about someone who reads, so, you know, this is going to be awesomely intense.
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