Dude, it's just a plastic bag in the wind

Rating: 5/10 (20 November 2013)

What I learned from American beauty:
1. Smoking pot frees your mind and helps you exercise better.
2. Having extra-marital affairs makes you more confident.
3. Women liking guns is empowering.
4. Men liking guns is psychopathic.
4. Homophobic men are obviously closet gays.
5. Mouthy sexually obsessed and exceptionally good looking cheerleaders are obviously virgins.
6. Good looking teenage girls come on to middle-aged men who have nothing going on.
7. Selling drugs is an honorable career choice.
8. Death obsessed voyeurs are really sensitive.
9. Ex-Army men are secretly Nazis.
10. Watching a plastic bag float in the wind is really beautiful and profound.
11. Swapping a cushy well paid desk job to work for low pay in Macdonald's is an authentic thing to do.
12. Blackmailing can be fun.
13. All gays are obviously decent welcoming people.
14. People give long saccharine monologues when dead.
15. Montages can help fill out a film.
16. The way to a girl's heart is to write her name in fire in your back garden, film her surreptitiously and show her a video of a plastic bag.
17. Staying at home with a violent control freak father is wise when you've got $40,000 saved from drugs money.
18. Drug dealers in New York are more than glad to help out a 'bro'.
19. Buying yourself an expensive sports car after declaring "your possessions own you" is reasonable.
20. The emperor has no clothes.