American Beauty (movie)

The movie American Beauty bears the name of the most popular in the USA brand of roses . The roses are present in the picture everywhere . They are like a scarlet ribbon running through the canvas of the narration each time concentrating audience 's attention upon themselves as upon the stereotype of American beauty . This is not a story about empty cellophane bag flying in the wind . This is not a saga about a masturbating wimp American man . And even not about that that life is a shit and women are you know who

. This is rather the story of stereotypization of mass conscience that reached global proportion . This is a story about that that our life as any reality is a mosaic with different patterns - sometimes even ugly and detestable . Some of us see the life lines interlacing as a stifling web and others see it as roads running away beyond the skyline

Overall , American Beauty is a film about the life of an average American family , and problems experienced by each member of this family . And in this case it does not matter is the family American , English , French or any other as it was already mentioned the stereotypical conscience became global . Movie plot is simple enough and , to certain extent hackneyed . To tell the truth the beginning of the picture evokes feelings of boredom as you expect a typical tearful story of jerk husband , stinker wife , their daughter suffering from loneliness and lack of understanding and their neighbors - a bit screwed guy , trading drugs and practicing voyeurisme with his video camera , his father , colonel retired , who hates homosexuals being himself a latent homosexual However , the way all this story is presented makes this movie different and distinguished . American Beauty is impressive for the fact that there are no right or guilty characters in the story . For example , Lester (Kevin Spacey ) is not a dull , horny jerk , he is rather an average man who could not achieve in this life anything or even establish a normal family , where al least someone would understand and support him . His wife Carolyn (Annette Bening ) is not a stinker or a whore she is a simply unhappy woman , which tries hard to bluster way out of difficult life I will sell this house today , I will sell this house today (Carolyn , but fails . And their daughter Jane (Thora Birch ) is not a wicked child dreaming of killing her parents but rather a poor little girl , who feels awfully lonely and seeks for someone to understand her .The central event of the film is the moment when Lester is trying to free himself from the chains of commonness and dullness of the life surrounding him . He quits his well-paid position and starts working in McDonald 's and going in for sport . But the outward manifestation is not the point the point is that Lester got free inward . He ceased being afraid of his wife , he has got that job which does not give you...