April Frank Movie Analysis

This film is about a young suburbanite couple frank and april Wheeler, living in conneticut in the 1950s. They have two beautiful children and a lovely home. April is a stay at home mother, and frank works as a sales man for knox machines. Frank is not so happy with his career but knows it pays the bills, and is good security following in his father that passed footsteps. They start having problems in their marriage, and frank cheats on his wife with a cowerker. April always seems unsatisfied, and she is not content with the idea of living a life so basic, and settling just because they have children. One day frank comes home from work and april wants to talk to him about how shes been feeling. Both are bored with their lives but decide to switch things up buy moving to france. April has this fascanating …show more content…
there waSs manyn pros and cons to this big decision they made. The couple soon start tellinbg everyone about the move to paris, most find it humoring and dont take it serious.When he tells his boss he would have to resigningh soon, he offered a promotion.
Meanwhile april fimds out she is pregnant and is afraid it will put a damper on their plans to move to paris. April comes up with the idea of having an at home abortion, and gets a home kit to do it. Frank isnt comfortable with the idea whatsoever, so they let it be. theres a big difference in this film on gender role ideoligy of the 50s when this took place and that of today. like i said in the beginning he was the bread maker and she waS The stay at home wife and mother. April seemed very depressed and unhappy with this role, like she wabted to do more and be more. Women didnt have much say in things during this time. she soon comes to find out that frank took the job offer and their not leaving to paris anymore. their love slowly starts to fade along with her dreams and asparations, she was heartbroken. In my