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This 5 page paper analyzes Sam Mendes' film, American Beauty for cinematography, themes of beauty and love, as well as visual, musical symbols. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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This movie asks the question: Is love merely going through the motions? Is beauty a trap? Are women to be only seen as objects of pleasure? Sam Mendes 1999
film, American Beauty, featured a classic tale of a man experiencing a mid-life crisis. The film featured Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening and Mena Suvari as the classic triangle. If this
was all the movie was about, however, it would have fallen flat on its face and been viewed as tasteless at best. However, with extraordinary sensitivity, Mendes embraces the age
old question: What is love? How does one find it? How does one know if one has the real thing? And the largest question of all being, What has modern
society done to dilute the meaning and experience? In American beauty the last year of the protagonists life are examined. He feels that his life is falling apart. It
is. But what has brought it to that point seems to be the vehicle which drives the movie forward. This movie is outstanding in that it dissects what exactly makes
a person truly beautiful. And it is about how that beauty can be destroyed, sometimes inadvertently, by the limitations and confines placed on the individual, and even sometimes the lack
of confines. The overall metaphor of this movie is the symbol of the rose. At one point a neighbor asks how the roses are grown so red and healthy. She
replies eggshells and Miracle grow. This is particularly poignant in that both eggshells and miracles are sought in this movie. In American Beauty, Lester and his wife Caroline are as
dysfunctional in their relationships. They seem to have everything that is beautiful: great careers, money, nice house, cute kids. But, behind the suburban walls, everything is ugly. Lester and Caroline
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