The film "American Beauty" was obviously flashback at the beginning, using crude pictures to create the reality of the video. Doubt about why a girl would want to kill her father, and also wonder about Lester’s monologue, which is obviously full of desperate words about life, but with such a bgm—all in all I was attracted to it. . The film is full of foreshadowings, and the plot is very compact. The appearance of each character vividly connects the story, and each character is serving the theme, which does not seem superfluous. The combination of Jenny and Lira implies Leicester’s youth; homosexual neighbors guide viewers to understand why Lira’s father assassinated Leicester; Caroline’s derailment deepens the audience’s perception of her pursuit of material and the breakdown of husband and wife relationship ; Angela's debauchery and temptation also highlights Leicester's pursuit of beauty. Just as Lester said to the audience at the end of the film, "You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure." The commonality that the film wants to convey to me-that is the eternal pursuit of beauty. The light plastic bag soul in Lira's video, wrapped in wind and temperature, gently told me the beauty of a wanderer before his death, the beauty of a dead bird, and the beauty of a fallen Leicester. That is the passing of life, and it seems to be the rebirth of life. I think Lira here has a soft spot for these dying or dead things because he is often domestically abused by his father, just like Les’s characteristics always show roses when he fantasizes about Angela, not only because the roses themselves have symbols. Significance, moreover, the visual influence of roses planted in front of their house. So these details can also reflect the consistency and authenticity of the characters in this film. Another very interesting point is the narrative structure of the film. From the beginning of the film, we knew that Lester was about to die, but the interesting thing was that he recounted the whole process (beginning and end) with the mouth of death, like an outsider, and like an authority. At this point, I seem to understand why the bgm at the beginning is so happy. Born as human beings, can we make a desperate move for beauty? In short, I admire the people in this film who are brave enough to pursue it. I remembered the last line of the film Leicester’s motto to me and to everyone, "Don't worry. You will, someday."
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