what beauty

Rating: Null/10 (3 November 2001)

spoilers tonight i watched american beauty. i love that movie. its beautiful. to me the movie is trying to convey a depiction of what true beauty is. from the title, one would think `american beauty' stands for the hot blonde chick in the movie. well, this IS our culture... beauty is youth, female, and often blondes. however, the beauty in this movie (mena suvari) is not beautiful in that way. she is conceited at first, boasting her physical beauty and how every guy wants her... but inside she's really insecure and torn. she has no self worth. she equates her self worth to her appearance. that is all she is... a beautiful face and figure. this all goes to show the damage that society does to girls. however, in the end she starts seeing some worth in herself when kevin spacey showed care toward her even after he refused to have sex with her. kevin spacey was drawn to the cultural beauty at first... he wanted to have sex with mena suvari because that is what a `man's fantasy` is supposed to be.. .to have sex with a young, beautiful woman. however, in the end, he realized that she is a virgin and is innocent and pure... he couldn't take advantage of her. that's beautiful. if he hadn't known she was a virgin he would've had sex with her and felt good about it because she would just be an object or another conquest, not a human being or an innocent girl. that's one of the themes i love about this movie.
another theme i love is just how a seemingly normal person in society could be really troubled. many people out there feels oppressed by their jobs, responsibilities, and what society expects of them. i love the part when kevin spacey allows himself to be reckless and then says `i'm just another guy with nothing to lose.' i love it!
the ending was also amazing. i love the speech kevin spacey gave, and how the film showed where everyone was when the gunshot ranged. it made me cry. i'll have to admit that it disturbed me but the movie was still nonetheless great.