American Beauty showed me the entire life behind things , that incredibly malevolent force .

Rating: 10/10 (28 April 2014)

Have you ever felt like you're dead inside or sedated? Or you're not enough or they just don't understand you and you wind up not understanding yourself, then you realize trying to be perfect changes you . Well, it's never too late to get it back . Like Lester who wants his freedom and sense of self back being infatuated to Angela is an indirect approach to admit his incompleteness . Angela is his symbol for change like we have a crush then we change for our crush but we realize our crush is just a symbolism of our subconscious longing for change . Our conscious want to see a concrete reason . Like Lester he realized that he wants to change for himself to have his own voice and not for Angela that's why he didn't have sex with her. He used weed as his antidepressant (g13) that's taboo but it helped him. He wants to see his own life ahead of him . Carolyn wants a picture perfect scenario she is a control freak because she can't control her own career that's why he controls Lester and Jane. She' always read inspirational books about career which made her expectations so high and reality so low. She loves gun because she can feel control. That's why she had an affair with Buddy an image of success but his crazy philosophy in order to be successful one must project an image of success makes him shallow. Angela wants to be a model but she hides something her insecurities like she says "there is nothing worse in life than being ordinary". Jane is insecure with herself that's why she wants a boob job but in her nudity scene it shows that she has an above average breast size. It's just a symbol of her longing for appreciation . Her friendship with Angela sucks her empty. Lester loves her but she thinks that Lester is a loser dad. Carolyn wants her to be gorgeous but she wants to be herself . There she found Ricky the most normal character he is happy for who he is . He doesn't need a gorgeous outfit because he has genuine beauty on the inside. But his dad Frank passed all of his insecurity to Ricky and his wife . His wife became catatonic but Ricky saw beauty in simple things like the plastic bag it was his coping mechanism . Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it and my heart is just going to cave in . Just profound really profound . And the ending where Lester found the real beauty behind things - his family . Jane found Ricky. Angela realized that she doesn't need to be a sexual object to be pretty. Ricky found the beauty in Lester's death he saw closure , happiness and contentment . Frank never accepted himself . Carolyn realized amidst all the power and money she wants ,he really loves Lester. Carolyn doesn't want to kill Lester she just wants to gain power but she realized Lester loves him even though she's ordinary. She woke up from the fact the she's a prison of her own unrealistic expectations which stopped her from being a great wife to Lester. We should look closer we will find beauty all around us . It's hard to stay mad when there is so much beauty in the world.