American Beauty - Cannot think of a better title

Rating: 10/10 (1 May 2009)

For this wonderful masterpiece of a film. Such brilliant direction, powerful acting and superb writing that is hard to measure up to nowadays. The list of characters is one of the most astounding creations of story-telling ever.
First off is Lester Burnham, a self-pitiful somewhat loser who goes through a midlife crises. His overbearing, sexually frustrated, all-too-perfect wife Carolyn drives him into rebelling against her outrageous authority and control over his life. His snotty spoiled brat of a teenage daughter, Jane, is not so popular at school, unlike her 16 year old friend Angela Hayes, who raves about her sexual encounters with various men. Much to Jane's repulsion, her father develops an obsession for Angela, having sexual fantasies about her, surrounding beds, bathtubs and kisses with rose petals. He also meets an unforgettable character, Ricky Fits, his next door neighbor, son of Colonel Frank Fits, an open and proud homophobic who is tightly closeted himself. These reasons become Lester's ultimate wake up call and he starts living his life as he has always dreamed it, like quitting his job to work in a fast-food restaurant, smoking pot and lifting weights to "look good naked".
Ricky Fits, who becomes Jane Burnham's boyfriend, sees the world through a different perspective, like a painting of the world, rather than what it naturally represents.
"Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in."