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.
One of the themes of American beauty is to reveal that the truth of beauty is likely to be at least in the anticipated place. This movie considers the beauty of America considered perfection and the beauty in our life. The meaning of beauty is expressed in two ways. The role of Angela Hayes represents the typical American beauty and American dreams. This was strengthened by contrasting Angela and Jane. Jane is thought to be the opposite of the "American dream". She does not contribute to blonde, blue eyes, or American beauty. Ricky will challenge this discourse. He is overwhelmed by the real beauty such as dead birds, homeless, Jane's love. I think Angela is not just "ordinary".
In "American beauty", red represents a close definition of love, death, and beauty. There are few scenes in the United States that do not include red. It is used to add meaning to the movie, like Leicester's dream covering Leicester's naked body and American beauty pedals in the 1 second screenshot as Leicester's red tie is obvious It has been. A picture of an old family. Hundreds of items of this movie were purposely red colored by Alan Ball.
This character is called America's beauty because characters are representatives of American beauty. Though they are only those of people who live in the same street, everyone wants to meet their needs and be happy. Some people are not at all happy and some people are fully aware that some people are headed for happiness. Ricky's father and wife hate their lives, Lester and his wife and daughter are happy to kill each other, although this very happy gay couple (not like or like a lot) to each other It is not trying to