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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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Mise En Scene Close Up Shot
2,049 wordsAmerican Beauty and the Beast Beneath In American Beauty, 1999, directed by Sam Mendes, we are confronted with the permeating images that have consumed mainstream American life. Mendes exploits these images as constructions that we created around ourselves as a means of hiding our true selves. Mendes is able to implicate us in the construction and make us active viewers by exploiting our voyeuristic nature, the nature of a prying observer to usually seek the sordid or the scandalous. In American...
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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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Rene Descartes Dualism Meditations
1,728 wordsRene Descartes dualism (meditations) Nowadays it is rather hard to believe that few centuries ago each branch of science contained philosophy in its basis. Mathematic, Physic, Chemistry (or rather Achemisrty), Astronomy were based on certain philosophical theories. It is hard to believe that long time ago scientists made their researches in every possible and available branch of science. They were in interested in the world that surrounded them. With the help of their knowledge they tried to rat...
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Offer Is Made Legally Binding
1,723 wordsBusiness Contract Within the course of this report, we will analyze a concept of business contract and see how it is relevant to the modern 21 st century business practices. A contract is an agreement enforceable by law. Whenever an agreement is considered as binding and obligatory by the court in the sense that whoever fails to fulfill it may be sued, that agreement is a contract. Contract is defined as a legally binding agreement made between two or more persons, by which rights are acquired b...
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Chicago Tribune Richard J
2,273 wordsThe McCormick Place Story The history of McCormick Place is quite remarkable for a building that is only thirty-nine years old. It was built in 1960, burned down in 1967, and was rebuilt and reopened by 1971. When we think of McCormick Place today, we think of the North, South, and East buildings together. But the North building wasnt built until 1986, and the South building was completed just last year; both well after the Richard J. Daley administration. The East Building, (Also known as Lakes...
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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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Mid Life Crisis Ego And Superego
996 wordsApril 2001 American Beauty Psychology Analysis American Beauty depicts modern dysfunctional families that appear to be happy on the outside, while on the inside they have tremendous deep-rooted problems. The movie begins to show many Freudian psychotic traits when unhappy Lester Burnham loses his job and begins a stereotypical male mid-life crisis by buying a red sports car, smoking marijuana, exercising maniacally, and fantasizing about younger women. He lusts after his daughter Janes best frie...
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African Descent Indian Population
3,858 wordsCaribbean history comprises of a long and tumultuous colonial past. Guyana and Trinidad both have a rich cultural past, however, it is a history that has been marred by its own people its adopted natives. Much of both countries history has been soiled: First by the race issues created by the Europeans then secondly by petty jealousies each race, East Indian and African, had towards each other. But let my point about the ethnic divide be put with more focus: the two races are the two main groups ...
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