Beautifully American

Rating: 10/10 (25 October 2008)

American Beauty is basically a film about a man who loves his daughter's friend who is roughly twenty five years younger than himself while his wife shags other men and his daughter gets her tits out to the drug dealing next door neighbour.
But there is more to this film than that. It is a beautiful journey through the last weeks of Lester Burnham (Spacey) and as he announces that he will be dead in less than a year at the beginning of the film, the initial question is... 'Who kills Lester?' Yet as the story progresses, you realise how unimportant that question is. You will probably forget it as you are dazzled with the great cinematography and emotion filling characters; be it a sense of "Well that was your fault, you tosser," towards Lester, "Jesus, you're a bitch," towards his wife Carolyn (Bening), or whatever you think of the varied characters.
My advice: watch this film and enjoy it. It's spectacular.