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Rating: Null/10 (5 April 2000)

I did not want this movie to end. "American Beauty" may not be entirely realistic, but it had stayed with me in a very real way. Kevin Spacey floored me. I think that his job as Lester Burnham is the best acting I have ever seen, not just because his character was so cool, but because I cannot imagine anyone else in that role. And its moral made me think about how I live my life. Lester asks his wife in the movie, "When did you become so joyless?" I realized that that's the thing in life I never want to be. Lusting after a teenage girl and smoking weed are not my way of being joyful, but that's not really what the movie is about; it's about finding beauty in your life and enjoying it for what it is. And I can't think of a better way to live life.