Pristine beauty!

Rating: Null/10 (6 October 2011)

Really, what a beauty. I enjoyed Kevin Spacey before I came to see American Beauty. Here in his dead end role he is absolutely brilliant and so is the script. For those who think life is going the wrong way, here they may find comfort watching AB and realise that things can be far worse! In the leading role he find himself totally disconnected from his wife in a midst of a kind of artificial living style where he seems to have lost his identity and become just an accessory he finally shake it off and start a new life for himself. His teenager daughter also disconnected but really more like any one of her age unwillingly introduces her friend to him also contributing to his "rejuvenation" However this friend may not be all what she seems to portray. His daughter also enters in a relationship with an unusual neighbor who himself has an unusual relationship with his unusual family. And this is all the unusual beauty of American Beauty. I would not say this is for everyone especially those not completely at home in the western society, or those being very sensitive to certain moral issues. I found it to be very honest with its sarcasm in exploring situations that some of us will recognise as real.