American_Beauty

American Beauty In the film American Beauty, the characters go through changes, which help some of them find their inner peace. They learn to find what makes them happy in life and what makes them grateful. As each character goes through changes, some of them find a place of happiness while the others sink in misery because they have lost themselves and what they used to live for. Analyzing and grasping for happiness, Lester finds his internal peace and becomes a better person who asserts himself as well as finds himself in the position to help others look at their own personal issues. The Burnham family is not very functional when we find them in the start of the film. They seem to all come very close to hating each other and only tolerate each other because they have to. They are the trophy family. The mother despises her husband, even considers him a loser. The father despises the mother for being so controlling, shallow, and untruthful with herself and others. Their daughter, whose emotions bubble quietly and sear viciously; is an adolescent struggling between wanting to love her american, beauty, lester, himself, man, lost, life, find, through, person, others, help, very, success, process, mother, makes, knows, herself, happy, film, father, family, each, daughter, because, who's, while, unhappy, trying, start, shallow, says, quietly, peace, part, own, opportunity, movie, longer, late, know, internal, husband, house, home, happiness, goes, give, finds, direction, despises