It is movie to exist forever

Rating: Null/10 (21 April 2004)

American Beauty is great for me because I watched it once on Rusian TV, about month ago and I still addicted to it. I read a plot and bios of Sam Mendes and Kevin Spacey, a story how this movie were produced. And I realized that Sam Mendes from a good screenplay, small moneys, careful actors has made an outstanding movie. The plot was more crude and ordinary than what it became after cutting. There were a story with the end known from the start, with an American court and people said something about 'you know, I will die sooner'. There was an obvious homosexuality of Colonel. In movie it is a surprise for an audience and confirmation of the deepest suspicions of the most devoted movie watchers. Kevin Spacey always played miserable worms without any shadow of attraction. He starts the same but in a few minutes we see him charming, sexual and benevolent. He collides with daughter, wife, employer only because he understands that he has misplaced his desires and does not live but survives. His family exists to show the success of his wife. Everyone around is a lier and everybody cripples lives of their dearest. Colonel Fitz treats his son extremely cruel to make him 'a real man'. Father is a latent gay and son suffers from his brutal cruelty and coldness. Ricky (a son) so used to hide his essence that real life has become a film for him and he finds himself in videotapes which he makes. Lester (Spacey)'s wife Caroline is the poorest woman in the world. None loves her and she even does not need it. Her lover is more business idol than a close friend. She lives for shopping of attributes of success. She and Lester see their daughter every day and know nothing about her. Lester tries to be free and happy. He does only really important things. He falls in love. He does not understand that he upsets the ideas of wife and daughter how he should behave that they want to kill him at least in their thoughts. He could be killed by anyone and at the end it is not really important that he is killed by Colonel who fools himself suspecting a gay in his son. The biggest hint in this movie for me that Lester sees in dreams his love (young girl) around roses which his wife cultivates but he does not realize it.