American Beauty by Sam Mendes

Sam Mendes' American Beauty 'article on "The American Beauty" directed by Sam Mendes We are faced with a pervasive image of consumers' mainstream American lives. Mendes will use these images as a structure to create ourselves as a means of hiding our true self. Mendes can influence our building with our voyeurism and make us an active audience. In the beauty of the United States, Mendes recognizes the structure image of penetration, using the tendency of peeking of the audience.

American beauty (1999, Sam Mendes) is a terrible but realistic story of a family who lives in a perfectly suburban area. Leicester Burnham is a father who fell in love with his wife Carolyn Burnham, who maintains relationships with his family and looks down on his work. But Leicester was still unhappy in his life until he met a young girl who developed his strong daughter friend Angela, a strong sexual desire. This encounter with Angela recognized the reality of his failure in life and led Leicester to change it.

Directed by Sam Mendes American Beauty is a movie located in the suburbs, usually in the surroundings below the central hero of the daily life of the Libnam, he is typically living "American dream." He seems to have excellent work, a big house, a wife and a daughter, and even a white fence. But, everything is not as appearance is often deceptive. When we see "well", we see that the old daughter, Jane, Jane, as viewers quickly realize that he realized more control than his dozen, his wife, Caroline Bearer, more tired, In the words he thinks this is "this big loser."

Damaged only by Sam Mendes movie "American Beauty" By American family studies, it is witty accurate and the method of the present invention reveals the nature of modern suburbs. We will continue to explore Alan Ball's script on our ordinary life, about what the idea of ​​"beautiful" is and why we have all the people who live in "desperate life". But more importantly, whether the movie knows American dream, or rather America's nightmare. A profitable work, a quiet district of a beautiful house, a luxury car: American contemporary society is built around the concept of success that finds happiness through materials (there is no big difference in New Zealand's unique society). "American beauty" does not reveal this lie - it shows that this lie is terrible

In 2000, American Beauty (directed by another British playwright Sam Mendes) received five Oscars including the best movies depicting the dysfunction and dissatisfaction of life in the suburbs of the United States. This movie has homosexual dislike, adultery, collapse of living in a broken room, rights and revolutionary youth takeover, materiality, integration, but there is no point excepting to identify them. Things, and conclusions is that people hide the fact that they are in contradiction. They are painting themselves publicly. The main character of the movie, Leicester (Kevin · Paisley) is similar to the three signs of Mildre. He can express his true thought dullly, but the form of the main rebellion in middle-aged crisis returns to his youth. Becoming a fast food worker, buying a muscle car, sucking a pot, fulfilling responsibilities and becoming greedy after a high school cheerleader of the same age as her daughter.