American Beauty is a great movie.

Rating: Null/10 (31 July 2011)

American Beauty is a movie that you either love it or hate it. Understand it or do not understand it. This movie depicts numerous meanings. One of the primary principles that the movie portrays is the absolute value of the significance of life. The movie reflects the lives of American families residing in a suburban neighborhood. Although the neighborhood appearance from the outside appears to be the genre of "picture perfect" the families are intangibly dealing with an array of predicaments. This movie harness countless emotions and subjects i.e. infidelities, homosexuality, confrontation, shame, bulling, confinement, lust, sadness, happiness, uncertainty, and death. The theme of the film is "enjoy life to its fullest" live everyday like it is your last, stop viewing the glass of life as half-full.
The characters in the movie each contribute significant positions throughout the film. Lester Burnham (played by Kevin Spacey) is a disheartened physically and emotionally detached working man, father, and husband dealing with the complacency's of his life. He willfully transcends upon a different outlook on life when he see his daughter Jane Burnham (played by Thora Birch) friend Angela Hayes (played by Suvari) practicing her cheer-leading routine and develops a lustful correlation toward her. He begins to embark on a newness of life. He decides he does no longer want to be a pretender and becomes less pasty, but becomes courageous adventurous. His wife Carolyn Burnham (played by Annette Bening) cannot quite understand his transformation, thus going through her own emotional hang-ups. She has adulterous affair, blames Lester, and then represents herself as the wounded.
The films characters mesh well; philosophically paralleling key components of their lives. The chemistry was wonderfully construed. The lighting of the scenes correlated to the plot throughout each scene. This movie is conformed from a narrative approach and set its own pace. The movies also, embellished a symbolic approach by incorporating red roses sporadically emerging in the scenes of the film. During which the roses represented different meaning when they appear. When the roses appear in the scene with Carolyn its represent unresponsiveness, dry, and incoherent, with Angela its represents angelic, sensuality, lust, and sexuality, with Lester is presume the position of boredom, emptiness, and disconnect. American Beauty is a great movie that offers tranquility, humor, laughter, and morality; all in which interlink with movies theme. There are many twists and turns in this movie and with each twist a lesson is uncovered.