In general, I agree with many of the premises (like materialism, phony Corporations, brainwashing success coaching, homosexual rights, gun control, real estate bubble) that the movie American Beauty is projecting. However, I have two complaints.
1) The movie touches so many issues without really explore the real reason behind any one of the them.
At the end of the movie, everything falls back to this zen like phony happiness state. So we should just all quit our job and trade weed? A 40 min NHK documentary would have been more informative.
2) The movie betrayed itself (or sold itself for box office success) by adding to much coincidences and dramatization. Maybe that's the only way it could survive Hollywood. Just like Revolutionary Road has to feature two stars from Titanic to draw enough attention.
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