BEAUTY OF AMERICA

Rating: Null/10 (2 March 2000)

THERE'S SO MUCH BEAUTY IN THE WORLD
-RICKY FITTS
There certainly is. I know what people are really thinking when they see this movie. They watch the 2h film, they leave. They go home, and without knowing, their lives have changed-
Subconsciously, everybody watches American Beauty and hopes and prays that their family isn't anything like the Burnhams'.
You hope your daughter doesn't have such low self-esteem. You hope your wife doesn't cheat on you. You hope your husband doesn't just stop being himself. Don't even start with your neighbors.
To be honest, American Beauty is the journal of America. Everybody in the story really exists. They are out there living just like the characters in the film. Angela Chase probably lives next to you, and every time you see her, you think what Lester thought.
You probably want to disagree with me, and that's okay...Everybody gets different things out of films. That's what their there for, to be examined. Alan Ball (who wrote it) feels the beauty and ugliness of the world and has written an opera about a modern american family.
IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN AMERICAN BEAUTY, THEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT FILMS ARE ALL ABOUT.