"Never underestimate the power of denial"

Rating: 9/10 (29 September 2013)

"Never underestimate the power of denial", this is exactly what the film aspires, don't live by your instincts, live by what you want others to think of you. It is about repressed instincts and reversed roles in society: the young girl who lacks affection becomes an angel, the well educated young boy becomes a drug dealer, the so called whore is after all a virgin, the saint wife ends getting laid out, the homophobic colonel ends kissing a man and the depressed householder states himself as never before. It's a film without mercy, so tragic that becomes comical. Sam Mendes tells the story of the American beauty in short tableaux, piercing and cutting, each with his mission, his comment, his scandal - served as slices of apple pie: one dark, one dirty, one anarchic, ironic . One way to organize the narrative that produces extraordinary results.