American_Beauty

American Beauty “American Beauty” is more than just another great Oscar winning film. When analyzed, the true meaning of the movie hits you like a roaring freight train. The film is an omen to stop and carefully look the life you are leading and the person you are. In today’s world it easy to get caught up in the bullshit our peers, the media, and other demons of society feed us. We get distracted and lose sight of what is important to us, and what we truly want to accomplish in life. We then focus all our attention on that which is not real and allow our “beloved” society to mold us into what it sees fit, all while never thinking twice about what is really happening. Before we know it, our superficial life has passed us by and we do not know who we have become. By this time, the future is now the present, which inevitably becomes the past with every second that ticks. (We all know…there is no changing the past.) Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) has grown sick and tired of his life. He hates his job, cannot remember the last time he had sex with his wife lester, life, angela, know, true, society, ricky, real, out, now, movie, job, important, having, film, because, affair, about, wife, time, thinks, think, tapes, superficial, stop, starts, sharing, sexual, sex, sees, say, people, past, over, ordinary, order