On watching Revolutionary Road

1. Enthusiasm for Michael Shannon and his character John Givings.
2. Fascinated that this was a Winslet-Mendes husband/wife "passion project."
3. [this reason removed, in Knnth's words, "out of respect for Kate Winslet"]
4. Disappointment that the picture window ended up on the cutting room floor.

Richard Yates writes the picture window:

"'Of course it does have the picture window; I guess there's no escaping that.'
"'I guess not,' Frank said. 'Still, I don't suppose one picture window is necessarily going to destroy our personalities.'"

"Their sofa could go here and their big table there; their solid wall of books would take the curse off the picture window; a sparse, skillful arrangement of furniture would counteract the prim suburban look of this too-symmetrical living room."

"When the funnies were finished at last he struggled to his feet, quietly gasping, and stood for several minutes in the middle of the carpet, making tight fists in his pockets to restrain himself from doing what suddenly seemed the only thing in the world he really and truly wanted to do: picking up a chair and throwing it through the picture window."

Kenneth upholds the continued significance of the picture window in our lives by forwarding this article along to me: "Shots fired on southwest side, picture window hit."