The American Dream and its drawbacks.

Rating: 10/10 (11 May 2018)

The American Dream. A set of life goals that includes having a great house, beautiful and loving wife/husband and joyful offspring. It is a stereotype followed by numerous people all around the world since the reality is completely different. Even the most perfect family consists of some kind of madness and the others usually are not even aware of that. Everyone thinks only about her/his life and envy the perfection of those families living the American Dream even when not knowing the truth. ,,American Beauty" tells the story of Lester Burnham, played by Kevin Spacey, and how he decides to change something in his life. He has got a wife, Carolyn (Annette Bening) and a daughter Jane (Thora Birch). Carolyn is focused primarily on herself and her career while Jane is a typical, rebellious teenager that seems to be lost in the world. Their life was not perfect and each of them goes through a severe transformation. Lester falls in love with Jane's friend Angela (Mena Suvari) and she meets a new neighbor, Ricky (Wes Bentley). They want to change something and they follow different paths. Each character was played outstandingly, spectator is completely absorbed by their performance with accompaniment of magnificent music, composed by Thomas Newman which is perfectly fitting in the atmosphere of the movie. Slightly magical and intriguing charms and allows to dive into the show. The movie presents that life can be like a plastic bag on the wind: unpredictable and surprising at every step. What decides about life being good or bad? Is it the wealth? Happy family? Or maybe living in general? Each of us has a limited lifetime and should make as much as possible within it. Dreams can come true, we just need to push them a little and that the most beautiful things are usually the details. Also the pressure from the community or another person can lead to an absolute madness, people can do and consider things that they would never think of normally. In ,,American Beauty'' there is both love and hate at its finest, and how it affects our lifes. The movie teaches and talks about topics of everyday life, and how it can be given a unique pace, since life and its point are the main features of this masterpiece. 5 Oscars absolutely deserved 10/10!