This is Way More Than a Movie

Rating: 9/10 (23 July 2014)

I'm not sure what's up with calling this a "black comedy" (I'm brown myself)... but all jokes aside, this film belongs in a class of its own. The movie American Beauty is so many things on so many levels and what you get out of it has a lot to do with your own frame-of-reference for life. I imagine that you could revisit this movie at a different life period and see it from a different angle each time. I think it is an important film for people who get that there is something a little "off" about contemporary American life, particularly in the "Anytown USA" quaint American suburb. Things in suburbia and its' 360° radius are never quite what they seem, hence the tagline: Look Closer. I will never get tired of this film; it has so much to teach. The film American Beauty is a reminder of something that I have always felt; that the real actors and actresses aren't in Hollywood.