Far from Heaven is apparently the typical dramatic plot which takes place in the 50s: Cathy is the perfect housewife, with a lovely and successful husband, two well educated children, but suddenly something happens which begins to disintegrate everything. As a matter of fact she discovers the homosexuality of her husband. And meanwhile she starts talking with her black gardener about her grief and finds out he is the only person with which she can have a relationship. Enough to put in discussion all the values and convictions of a life which seemed to be perfectly under control...
When Cathy speaks with Raymond in the garden he tells her that often you must look behind the colors of things and this is what happens to Cathy and partially to her husband Frank. They start a new chapter of their life whose substance is different from everything they believed in before. Apparently the color of things does not change and goes on to be the charming one of the 50's Connecticut with its gorgeous red and browns and the wonderful pink orange of flowers, but behind that something important has happened and changed deeply the flow of their life.
When Cathy speaks with Raymond in the garden he tells her that often you must look behind the colors of things and this is what happens to Cathy and partially to her husband Frank. They start a new chapter of their life whose substance is different from everything they believed in before. Apparently the color of things does not change and goes on to be the charming one of the 50's Connecticut with its gorgeous red and browns and the wonderful pink orange of flowers, but behind that something important has happened and changed deeply the flow of their life.