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Lack Of Communication Lester Burnham
1,577 wordsIn the movie American Beauty we see a commentary about people in contemporary society both as individuals and as members of families. I selected the character of Lester Burnham, played by Kevin Spacey, and did a psychological examination on him using the bio psychosocial model. I noticed many important details that had to be read under close evaluation which represented the heart of Lester. He is a man weighed down with a soul-sucking job as a corporate slave at a media marketing magazine. And h...
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Fast Food Restaurant Quit His Job
1,411 wordsIn life, everyone must make choices. Choices give an individual the freedom to decide upon the path to which they will follow. Since its beginnings, the film making industry has focused on showing the direct relationship between the choices that people make and the resulting consequences they must face. In the movie American Beauty, the character of Lester Burnham must make many important choices that could either lead to his ultimate happiness, or draw him further into his despair. In the movie...
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Analysis Of The Cinematography American Beauty
1,186 wordsCinematography is an art form, not just an aspect of a movie. Cinematography affects the mood and tone of a movie as well as the viewers feelings while watching a movie. In American Beauty this is demonstrated beautifully through camera techniques, lighting, and the framing of the shot. Camera techniques include aerial, deep focus, pan, shallow focus, slow motion, soft focus, and the tracking shot. Lighting is more than just shining a light on a character. The cinematographer must know how to ma...
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Lester Burnham Kevin Spacey
686 wordsI am doing a review on the movie American Beauty I decided on focusing on one character. The character I will be focusing on is, Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey). Kevin Spacey turns in a sharp performance as your everyday average Joe whos finally fed up with his life. Its just that his life is unusually miserable: Its just painfully monotonous. Hes stuck in a loveless marriage to a woman obsessed with materialism, his job doesnt offer him the respect he deserves, and his daughter and wife both dont...
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Fast Food Restaurant Mid Life Crisis
1,856 wordsIn life, everyone must make choices. Choices give an individual the freedom to decide the path which they will follow. In the movie American Beauty, each of the characters has a choice he or she needs to make. The main character, Lester Burnham, is faced with many choices that could either lead to his ultimate happiness or draw him further into his despair. Carolyn Burnham, Lester's wife, is faced with a loveless marriage that exists only because she does not possess the willingness to break the...
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Wife And Daughter Lester Burnham
728 wordsAll choices have consequences which might be either positive or negative. Although able to choose a course of action we cannot choose the consequences as well as we must understand that our choices seldom affect only us but they nearly always affect the lives of others. As we get older, the choices become greater. Greater choices lead to greater consequences. Lester Burnham is suffering a mid-life crisis that affects the life of his family which is made up of his stressed materialistic wife and ...
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Adam And Eve Fall Of Man
849 wordsOne often reads a book or watches a movie and finds a specific meaning behind the whole story, a moral. After watching American Beauty it is easy to see a resemblance in the characters to that of Paradise Lost. In this way you could say that by reading Paradise Lost the characters in American Beauty could have related and changed the way they handled their situations. In particular, Lester Burnham could have saved his life if he had only read Paradise Lost. Today society is constructed around th...
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