American Beauty
In the film American Beauty, the characters go through changes, which help some of them find their inner peace. They learn to find what makes them happy in life and what makes them grateful. As each character goes through changes, some of them find a place of happiness while the others sink in misery because they have lost themselves and what they used to live for. Analyzing and grasping for happiness, Lester finds his internal peace and becomes a better person who asserts himself as well as finds himself in the position to help others look at their own personal issues. The Burnham family is not very functional when we find them in the start of the film. They seem to all come very close to hating each other and only tolerate each other because they have to. They are the trophy family. The mother despises her husband, even considers him a loser. The father despises the mother for being so controlling, shallow, and untruthful with herself and others. Their daughter, whose emotions bubble quietly and sear viciously; is an adolescent struggli
"I need a father who's a role model," says Jane, "not some horny geek boy who's gonna spray his shorts whenever I bring a girlfriend home from school. She helps motivate him into getting his life back together and finding himself and what he stands for. " Suprisingly to her, this has not made her a happy person. She is shallow, uncaring, insensitive, and unhappy and the worst part is she knows it and cannot help it. "See the way the handle on her pruning shears matches her gardening clogs?" asks Lester. She has achieved success all by herself which is one of her life goals: her rose garden, money and motivational tapes, and the image of success she strives to maintain - do not include her husband. '' The mother has gotten what she has been seeking her entire life which is success. Fortunately he does have the opportunity to give some direction and comfort to his daughter's lolita cheerleader friend Angela who has the opportunity to face up to her own flaws. This new Lester comes too late to help give direction to his daughter and be a father figure. His liberation becomes his undoing, but not before he has emerged as the kindest, most stouthearted person in a confused lot of misdirected souls. Lester is the only character in this film that goes from complete internal mayhem to a calm, collected, quietly outgoing, confident man that knows what he wants and how to get it. Lester was completely lost in his person but through the process of trying to find himself, meeting a very confident young man, smoking pot, and reassessing himself as the man of the house, has found his gratefulness and is no longer an unhappy man. " The daughter is disappointed in the dad because he lost his fire for life and himself in the process of pleasing his wife's needs and trying to be the man of the house, which he no longer is at the start of the movie. While Lester is going through this process, he discovers a girl whom he looks upon as the perfect representation, in his mind, of beauty.
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