I hate this movie!

Rating: 1/10 (9 March 2005)

In 1999 three movies came across with anti-cubical message in them, American Beauty, Fight Club and Office space. Of those three the only one that looks down on the viewer like the movie is above them is American beauty. It is really annoying that the catch phrase is look closer when the movie is not deep or well thought out.
Main character is a regular guy who decides to change his life. This messes up everyone else's life. So he does one rebellious thing after the other and in the end, due to a sitcom like situation, in which he appears to be doing something he's not, he ends up dead. That's not a spoiler, the narration tells you that at the beginning of the movie. What message are you trying to get across when the main characters life change kills him. Don't change or die changing? The movie doesn't make it clear because a lot of things in this movie are left ambiguous and general so that it can seem to be smart.
The last line of the movie conveys a message that you don't get the movie but some day you will. Bite me. Why release the movie then? Everything is pretentious and trys to seem meaningful in American Beauty.
The movie has average cinematography. This bothers me because of how the movie keeps trying to say everything is beautiful. That is another example of how the movie trys to be above everyone. Violent or odd acts are happening and everything is beautiful. Like the movie is trying to have a message about that but doesn't have a strong opinion.
Fight Club and Office Space did a much better job of saying "take control of your life" and Feris Buelers Day Off said "life moves fast you should slow down and look at it sometimes". I hate American Beauty for saying someday you will understand the point and being general so that it leaves the impression of saying something without saying anything.