My all time greatest movie (or favorite or best, however you want to put it)

Rating: 10/10 (26 March 2013)

I do not understand why American Beauty is not regarded by more as the greatest/favoritest/bestest movie ever.
The first time I ever watched it, after the dénouement, and as the Beatles' "Because" played at the end credits, I just sat there spellbound and transfixed, thinking, "WTF just happened??"
A roommate of mine passed by the living room (where I was watching the movie) and asked, "Oh was it good? Was it deep? Was it intelligent?"
I must have just mumbled something in response. But what I was thinking afterwards was that you can't just characterize this movie as "deep" or "intelligent". This is one of the very rare precious gems that may be correctly described as ineffable.
This ineffability is all the more so, given the totally mundane and unexciting premise of a suburban family, consisting of a 40 something year old father in some sort of a midlife crisis, an unhappy wife/property agent, and an angsty teenage daughter.
The only way to do justice to this movie is to tell you to go watch it, if for some really odd reason you haven't already!