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Film review: American Beauty
With his biting satire on suburban life, American Beauty-director Sam Mendes created a brilliant critique of conservative everyday life and superficial materialism, which is filled with great situation comedy. ... But isn’t it remarkable that such an ambitious movie, which makes only nasty remarks about ordinary American life , made it through the mainstream production channels in the first place?
The movie plays in a typical quiet American suburb that has decent houses, white picket fences and well-cared square front yards. For many people, this kind of suburban life is the American Dream. ... American Beauty criticises this behaviour, which is underlined by the main character’s development in the story. ... And honey, that’s nuts”, shows this criticism of American materialism, because it happens just in that situation when finally some kind of sexual attraction arose.
In that way American Beauty turns Carolyn into a misogynist caricature whose purposes she cannot realizes and wants to point out that happiness in their marriage is replaced by the desire for artificial comfort.
Although American Beauty is filled with a lot biting sarcastic, the viewer doesn’t become depressed by the movie. ...
If there is a weakness in American Beauty it is the voice-over narrative, which is not always necessary as it destroys a great deal of narrative tension.
Approximate Word count = 1050
Approximate Pages = 4.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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