I just don't get it.

Rating: 4/10 (6 May 2002)

I think I have never been so at odds with the "mainstream" on any movie as I have been on this one. I didn't find this movie entertaining at all, and I didn't find it insightful, or revealing of American suburbia. Virtually every character in the movie is grossly dysfunctional to a comical degree. Perhaps the most being the wife of the neighbor. She is comically catatonic, and unresponsive to her surroundings, and her husband doesn't seem to notice, or care. The Kevin Spacey character is nearly completely estranged from his wife and daughter, but doesn't really seem to be all that concerned about either as he pursues a relationship with his daughter's friend, and smokes pot, and works fast food as his wife cheats on him. His daughter seems to appreciate the attention of the neighbor. Anyone else would have been treating him as a stalker, and getting a restraining order against him. And the young man (who sees beauty in everything), seems to have a rather elaborate and open drug selling business out of the home, that seemed comical given his relationship with his tyrant father.
I didn't identify with any character in the move, I don't know any one like any character in the movie, I don't think a bag blowing in the wind is beautiful, and I just didn't get it.