Still my favourite

Rating: 10/10 (13 March 2003)

A bizarre and poignant tale about two poles apart: the idea about safety and success, and the personal reality of the Burnhams, their loneliness and empty comformity. It's not hard to identify ourselves with the characters, almost all of us have felt years go by, we could lose faith in the possibility of true and sincere love, and we were not accepted. American Beauty points out the absurdity of the character and the bounds of life, but forgives those who want to live in a different way. It is more than the satire only of the American mid-class: a mirror to people everywhere who live in a rut of indifference.