Therefore, the middle class is probably the group most sensitive to vulgarity or vice. The taste of the middle class is always good, which often means moderate and not excessive. In the film, it is to build a neat lawn, clean and neat clothes, bright red roses, and light music at lunch.
The middle-class hypocrisy is broader, which means family harmony, even if you haven’t had sex for a year or more; it means care for your children, even if both parties are extremely tired of it; it means friendly neighbor relations, even if they are extremely mutual. Can't look down on it.
And the young people who are bored with this, those young people in Teenager, if they were born decades earlier, are probably among the hippies, smoking marijuana and listening to rock and roll. It's a pity that they were born so many years late, so they had to smoke marijuana secretly, surrounded by a group of children who looked (at least they looked) extremely normal. Those who were rebellious were regarded as freaks, and those who were less rebellious followed behind. Hunk, like Janie in the movie, maybe at most looking for pleasure in "South Park." Salinger is dead, and the young man who built barricades in the university a few years ago has long been a legend.
However, at the end of the film, it has gone beyond the irony of the interest of the middle class, and has risen to an anxiety about our own status. Everyone in the film is abnormal, everyone is wrapped in heavy packaging, and there is a serious lack of identity for their own identity. Homosexuals dare not admit their identity.
The film gives two questions, one is hypocrisy and the other is evil taste. The former is moral, the latter is aesthetic, and the biggest problem with both lies in pseudo.
For the bad taste, the film can be regarded as a form of answer. The flying plastic bag, the solemn face like the character in Raphael’s painting, Lester’s final thoughts, and the name of the film itself, American Beauty, are all In answering without hesitation, there is no lack of beauty in this world, only discovery. From the start of the shock, Lebster kept tearing open this nasty hole every time he discovered it. He began to listen to his favorite music again, and to do his passionate profession. The beauty of the United States reappeared in front of us a little bit. .
But another question has not been answered for a long time. After all, this world is not only supported by aesthetics. A good society is still necessary. Lebster was shot and Jenie and her boyfriend ran away from home. In any case, it is not a satisfactory answer. This solution does not have more hope than the look back on the final bus of "The Graduate". For this seemingly deteriorating society or the world, can kindness only exist in the "Reader's Digest" story? The director has not given a satisfactory answer: Is there good in this world?
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