American Beauty
In American movies there are often underlying plots, hidden themes and subliminal messages. Many times the producer is trying to make a point that is not blatantly obvious to the audience. American Beauty is one such movie with an intangible agenda. There are many characters interacting with each other in obvious ways on the surface, such as leading normal lives in a normal neighborhood, but ultimately they effect the outcome of the movie because of less obvious character flaws and the way they conflict living with each other. The movie contains homoerotic behavior in a pair of homosexual neighbors, a homophobic father, and a questionable relationship between an average man and his teen neighbor. The homoerotic behavior displayed by the characters in American Beauty influences the development and eventual outcome of the movie by interactions and subliminal implications of characters and actions with such homoerotic behaviors.American Beauty centers on the last year of Lester Burnham's life. Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) is married to Carolyn Burnham (Annette Betting), and their marriage is picture perfect on the exterior, but the perfection only runs superficially. Their marriage is based on the idea of "projecting an ima
A situation such as men voluntarily locking themselves in a room together suggests a non-heterosexual agenda for the time spent together in that room. Ricky seems eager to have 'alone time' with Lester, and Lester appears to counter the same desire for time together. Frank would rather his son "were dead than be a fucking faggot," (American Beauty). The two have a teenage daughter named Janey played by Thora Birtch. Conflicts start when Lester realizes he can take back control of his life and live life as a carefree teen once again. American Beauty is an American film that contains subtle plot lines, such as homoerotic behavior, that keeps the audience pondering every plot twist and character development the movie has to offer. Fitch believes Lester will reciprocate his sexual desires because of a misconstrued situation involving Lester and Frank's son. Later on in the movie, Ricky is paged by Lester and jumps at the chance to run to his house and be alone with him. When Lester consoles Frank, he sees this as a green light for sexual activity between himself and Lester. Their relationship is one riddled with subtle same-sex oriented desires for each other. The demise of Lester Burnham is solely due to the fact that he brought out the homoerotic behaviors in his homophobic neighbor. Frank Fitch kills Lester, possibly for turning him down and bringing out his homosexuality.
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