American Beauty Review

American Beauty

American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan all. Award Winning actor Kevin Spacey stars as office worker Lester Burnham, who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend, Angela. The film is calibrated by Spacey’s character engaged in a poor sexless relationship with his wife Carolyn, spacey dictates in one of the scenes that his marriage is "just for show, like an advertisement". This therefore leads to his wife Carolyn having an affair with the rival real-estate salesman.

The script itself is a true masterpiece, with the combine intervention of symbolism and drama, Mendes was astonished by it saying himself that “the script seemed to be about something different each time he read it". Further critics engage this idea, as many have said that the film was: full of American miseries and misdeeds, it was funny, angry, sad, and conclusive to this the literary critic and author Wayne .C. Booth concludes that the film resists any one interpretation.

However, the film was also a massive success and a masterpiece in my eyes, but one of the main things that I loved about it was that there was many interpretations of the movie, and that it is in some ways unique to different people; given that some people think that it was a tragic love story, others think that it’s a comedy, others think that it is one of the saddest movies of the 90s.

Personally in my view i think that it was a very funny film, with sadistic angry features and a touch of sadness in places, but another one of the films features that I loved was the casting, as Kevin spacey is one of my favourite actors from the 90s period and he played the role fantastically, due to the fact that he can be angry, an yet funny at the same moment, and turn sad things funny with a single line of phrase.