Kellen Knight
Mrs. Ardelji
Film
4/23/16
American Beauty
In American Beauty, there is a clear distinction between appearance and reality behind the white picket fences of suburbia. In the opening scenes the audience gets a feel for who these characters really are. The start of the movie begins with Lester Burnham's daughter, Jane, talking to a camera saying that she wants her father to be killed. No ordinary child of her age would want something of this magnitude done to her parent unless there was something that her father did that was unforgiving. The audience later finds out that this was only a joke but it's also a use of foreshadowing because Lester Burnham does end up getting killed. There is a use of homosexuality throughout the movie and it's during the time period where it is still frowned upon so the characters use stereotypes against them. This gives a sense of how people in the middle class thought of people. American Beauty is a film where the audience is led to believe that the …show more content…
He is someone who likes to think why he is here and what he should be doing with his life. He is obsessed with filming his everyday life and going further to
Throughout American Beauty, the characters goals are to achieve happiness. Each character eventually finds happiness, although it is more difficult for other characters. For Lester Burnham he finds happiness by quitting his job so he can pursue his dream. He finds a job at a local fast food joint so he doesn't have to deal with too much responsibility. He then goes and buys his sports car that he really wants.
American Beauty shows everything that is wrong with middle class society. They are fixated on small things that do not really matter. They are materialistic and care what other people think about them. It's faults like these that make people ordinary and don't know how to express
Mrs. Ardelji
Film
4/23/16
American Beauty
In American Beauty, there is a clear distinction between appearance and reality behind the white picket fences of suburbia. In the opening scenes the audience gets a feel for who these characters really are. The start of the movie begins with Lester Burnham's daughter, Jane, talking to a camera saying that she wants her father to be killed. No ordinary child of her age would want something of this magnitude done to her parent unless there was something that her father did that was unforgiving. The audience later finds out that this was only a joke but it's also a use of foreshadowing because Lester Burnham does end up getting killed. There is a use of homosexuality throughout the movie and it's during the time period where it is still frowned upon so the characters use stereotypes against them. This gives a sense of how people in the middle class thought of people. American Beauty is a film where the audience is led to believe that the …show more content…
He is someone who likes to think why he is here and what he should be doing with his life. He is obsessed with filming his everyday life and going further to
Throughout American Beauty, the characters goals are to achieve happiness. Each character eventually finds happiness, although it is more difficult for other characters. For Lester Burnham he finds happiness by quitting his job so he can pursue his dream. He finds a job at a local fast food joint so he doesn't have to deal with too much responsibility. He then goes and buys his sports car that he really wants.
American Beauty shows everything that is wrong with middle class society. They are fixated on small things that do not really matter. They are materialistic and care what other people think about them. It's faults like these that make people ordinary and don't know how to express