Brilliant and Bizarre

Rating: 10/10 (12 September 1999)

American Beauty starring Kevin Spacey and Annette Benning is brilliant and bizarre. All the characters are acted amazingly. The movie is unique and disturbing while also beautiful- parts are hilarious, others cause anxiety, whilst some are fantastically cathartic. The subject matter is America itself, and the film revisits this suburban "paradise". This drama plays across the silver screen like a soap opera on crack.
Overall I highly recommend this movie, it is unique, and it stretches the boundaries with both its subject matter and its visual eye candy. Truly something worth seeing, I presume that reviews for it will similarly explicate its special character and quality of film.