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Everything I had known about the movie before I had to see it was its five-Oscar-or-something nature and that’s all – no acid or, vice versa, enthusiastic comments from friends or anyone. That’s what I actually prefer. Nothing can beat discovering the movie on your own, and it really was a discovery. Lester Burnham, a husband to his wife Carolyn and a father to Jane, his daughter, is a happy deadman who starts telling his story of a suburban family failure. A luxuri-ous house, fancy cars, lucrative jobs, a nice green lawn in front of the house with American Beauty roses – American dream came true. But the picture gets uglier when the viewer looks behind the veneer. The family is cracked and torn. No one is happy with the way things are go-ing. Lester is sick and tired of his marketing job which became a deadly routine of his daily life. As he masturbates in the shower every morning he knows that the rest of the day will not be any fun at all. He is not oversexed, he is not sexually frustrated. All he lacks so badly is the love and attention of his ever-busy “frigid” wife Carolyn who is only worrying about her career and ne-glects her husband beyond any limit of common sense. She is not that unsuccessful, but when things have a nasty habit of going wrong all she cares about is to project an image of success in order to be successful. The Burnhams’ marriage appears to have turned into a formality. The spouses live separate lives, have their own problems and deal with them without sharing it with each other. Their overall dissatisfaction with life is growing step by step.
Approximate Word count = 1146
Approximate Pages = 4.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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