American Beauty
This new 5 times Oscar winner movie is an enjoyable film about romance, love, freedom, sexuality, the search for happiness etc. I absolutely enjoyed every second of it, in particular the combination of drama and comedy. Actors such as Kevin Spacey, Anette Bening, Peter Gallagher and Mena Suvari and the director Sam Mendes takes us through a 122 minutes long film full of unexpected surprises.
The film uses a "retrospective-technique" which means that at the start of the film the two main characters, Lester and Carolyn, seem very happy. They seem to be a perfect couple, in a perfect house, in a perfect neighbourhood. They have built up fake appearance. But later on the film reveals more about their privacy and we discover that their relationship isn't perfect.
Lester, the father in the house, is falling deeper into a depression. He wakes up every morning, jerks off in the shower, gets dressed, rushes to the car, gets yelled at by Caroline (his wife), goes to the same boring......
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