This movie belongs in one's medicine chest.

Rating: 10/10 (28 January 2007)

If you want to praise a movie to the skies, how do you begin...? These days it seems all movies need to have a morale. Without one, the movie is doomed to criticism, being too flat, or too simple. American Beauty has a morale; a morale from here to Tokyo. But it's not that obvious.
There are several round characters in this movie, all of them are missing something in their lives, and they're all dealing with it in a different manner, one giving a better result than the other. Lester Burnham, the main character, is basically in a mid-life crisis, but there isn't a better way to deal with that than his way. He finds a way to put things into perspective and relive the happiest days of his life.
But my real hero is Ricky Fits. His confidence, his soberness, how he doesn't care about what everyone thinks of him, how he rules over his own life, and how he sees beauty in everything makes him my big example in life.
Since I've seen this movie my motto in life is: "Today is the first day of the rest of my life." And since I've seen this movie I too see more beauty everything that's around me. I started making pictures of the freakiest things that make my wife look to me with a very questioning face. And still this movie works as antidepressant. Whenever I see this movie, even again, I just feel better. I brighten up. I try not to watch it too often - I think I've seen it about five times now - because I'm afraid the effect's gonna wear out.
I hope I don't give you too much expectations in case you haven't seen it yet. It's probably all just personal. But please do try to understand what I said.