Erotically and tragically funny!!! (Minor spoilers)

Rating: Null/10 (21 November 1999)

American beauty is about an American family, the father, the mother and the teenager, who lives in a big house. The father, Lester Burnham, is tired of his boring life. His wife does not make love with him anymore, he has a problem with his troubled teenagers, etc. One day, he falls in love with his daughter's best friend. Every night he has erotic dreams with her in a bath full of roses, for example. And he will start to do some exercise to shape his body. And also, there is a new neighbor who likes to film beauty, etc. Well a lot of things happen in this special movie.
I have to say that the story is totally original in his development and in his story itself. The way it describes an American family and its neighborhood is very interesting and funny and tragic. The first part of the movie is funny and captivating. The end is shocking, excellent, and very sad also. This is definitely not a conventional film.

The characters are extremely good and realistic. In the first part, Lester says that his daughter is a cliché teenager, but we see that she is more than that, more complex. It is the same thing for the mother, who seems totally crazy and hysteric. Every character is well developed during the movie. At the end we are attached to all of them, even the superficial roses girl. The interpretations are so good that I think they are the most convincing I've seen this year. I could say it is normal because the movie director worked in theater where the interpretation is the most important thing. Well, Kevin Spacey (excellent like always), Annette Bening (Funny and marvelous), Thora Birch (Surprisingly good, there was a long time that I have seen her in a movie) make this movie one of the best of the year. It is provocative, hilarious and so sad.
Sam Mendes is incredibly talented. He id a great job with all the actors. He knows how to directed people and we can easily see that in the film. Also,the images are beautiful, powerful and shocking sometimes. He knows what to film and how to film it. I can't wait to see his next film because he his very impressive.
This is a movie that stays in the skin for a few weeks. The story is haunting, strange, realistic and original. It shows things that we do not see a lot of times in American movies, and this is a good thing. Nothing is cliché, there is no judgment on the character and it makes me feel good. The wife cheated on his husband, he loves his daughter's best friend, their neighbor are gays, the others are a drug dealer, a military man and his special wife, and we do not hate them, I don't hate them. Everything is important in this movie, it shows, I think, what is American beauty, and this is not necessary a good point of view. The end is not unpredictable but for a part yes. I thought that this movie was playing with clichés about who will die, why and who will be the killer, and everything else, that's how I can explain the beginning.
Well, It's now one of my seven favorite movies and I will see it again because it deserves it. 10/10 a masterpiece.