American Beauty

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I put off watching American Beauty for some time. The movie is marketed primarily as a mid-life crisis movie. Kevin Spacey's character Lester Burnham becomes infatuated with one of his daughter Jane's best friends. Always, my alarm bells go off at this point. You know, middle-aged man, teen-aged girl, don't really need to be seeing a film like that.

Finally, my Netflix queue roled around to American Beauty, and I figured they could send it and if it didn't work out for me, I'd stop watching it.

So, it's like this. American Beauty is exactly what it says, but it's a lot more than that as well. This is not a happy film. You shouldn't watch this film at all unless you are willing to see dysfunction at its worst in two, potentially three families.

Lester is the bright spot in this nihilistic universe. Let me explain.

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