The Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder

Rating: Null/10 (5 April 2002)

This film American Beauty has this quality it leaves you with bittersweet in your mouth like when someone tell you a truth you dont want to hear.Kevin Spacey is Lester Burnham,in the beginning of the film He speaks to us(in off)and present us his world,"An alien place" to him, though he has the option to save himself,Lester warn us that he would die at the end,and for that we dont need a "SPOILER" because when he says this we already forgot it.
Lester wish to become Human again,He hates the "Vanity" of his wife and hates the American society status of sex and money,so, He decided to be young again,Lester wants to be a teenager again to free himself of the burden of a Responsible life,to feel things again,He has a crush on a cheerleader(got it?) a young blond of sixteen who is his daughter's best friend,Red Roses appears almost as a fetish,if Lester is young again he starts to figure it out things.
Lester teenage daughter"Jane"(Thora Birch) "is always angry" He said, and Lester wish he could tell her that this is only a phase but He doesn't want to lie.
Ricky Fitts(West Bentley in a interesting role)seems to be the adult of the film even if he's only 18,His father is a pathetic strict man full of prejudices,Ricky is intense and he films with a camera what he thinks is beautiful (He really has an unique view of what beauty is),Ricky maybe symbolizes the role of a Film Director and his capacity to touch people(audience) through images and as an Artist Ricky is complex, and sees the world different,almost spiritual.
Now I got to comment the final scene so, SPOILER AHEAD,When we see Kevin Spacey dead and we notice his eyes full open(he seems to be smiling),Ricky Looks at him closely and then smiles at him,he realizes
that Lester did not die with a heartache,He re-define what Marguerite Yourcenar once said:"To face the death with eyes open"and that's poetry!