WARNING !!! Extramural view with spoiler - American Beauty or American Truth?

Rating: Null/10 (2 April 2000)

The highpoint of this movie is the main character´s death. You know it from the very first minute and you try to find "Why you should like him in order to be sad when the death comes." It is hard to like him, because he is not perfect. But the longer you watch the movie, you can see, that the other characters are even less "likeable". That is why by the end of the movie YOU will feel like him, because YOU are not perfect, but YOU are "little better than the other ones" I am not an American, but I spent a half year in the U.S.A.. The American beauty shows an American society naked. It shows the undercover fears of your society. After watching this movie I can better understand the background of Columbia High School shooting tragedy, sexual harassment, workaholism of middle aged man and women, extremism growing from overproduction, loneliness of successful people and the dark side of democracy. The main character dies because he knows something he should not. Why should the information that one is a homosexual be so dangerous? Who creates such a pressure in society, that member of minority must kill in order to hide he is a member of the minority? Do you know the answer ? I am afraid this will come to Europe in twenty years. I only hope, that watching this movie could give us big opportunity to discuss American Beauty/Problems with children to prepare them for the dark sides of world development. The main character´s life ends few seconds after discovering the simple truths. I wish we had longer. V. Outrata, Prague