American Beauty: the nuclear family in film

through a series of changes. He quits his job to work at a fast food restaurant, starts smoking pot with the neighbor boy, and starts lusting after his daughter's friend. All these actions are examples of him rebelling against his forced role in the nuclear family and the responsibilities that go with it. He doesn't fit into the traditional roles of the man in a nuclear family, and doesn't want the responsibilities that go along with it. Trying to do what is expected of him by this role, is making him lose himself. He is disgusted by the false feeling this role gives him and is desperate to
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