Still questionable

Rating: Null/10 (29 August 2004)

American Beauty is slightly different from some movies I've seen. However, it isn't one that I would willingly choose to watch again. It's like a British Movie, showing more than one life and through different people's eyes. This movie gives the characters more realistic character traits till the point where you wonder how such people could exist, both in a positive and negative way.
I did enjoy seeing how Ricky stalked Jane because of herself and paid attention to her and not her arrogant "friend", Angela. It was refreshing to see someone love someone for who they are and not for their boobs or legs. It was sweet.
The thing that I thought was disgusting was the fact that Lester (Spacey) fell in love with Angela, who is his daughter's age. It's just aggravating to keep seeing movies where the father falls for some younger chick and the mother has an affair with some rich dude. It's not new, it's not different, it just shows how twisted life has become, how no one really takes anything seriously anymore unless it ends up with sex. For instant, Lester only works out and changes because his desire is to be buff enough to have Angela asking to have sex with him.
To me, it was a disturbing movie. The plot was different and the camera shots were good. But I'm getting sick of movies were the old man wants to have sex with a twelve year old. If this is American Beauty, then people don't really know what beauty is.