Subject: Re: American Beauty
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Tue Feb 22 2000 - 12:06:04 EST
In a message dated 2/22/00 10:31:15 AM Eastern Standard Time,
lp9616@bristol.ac.uk writes:
> What I liked about the characters of the daughter and the boyfriend is
> that they weren't too enlightened. The boy is really onto something in
> life, but mostly they're still working out how to live. This is
> especially true of the daughter, who was a bit bitchy, but was
> basically a teenage girl trying to work out some of her own ideas and
> rejecting those of her old friend in favour of the boyfriend's. Like
> Holden, she hasn't gotthe answer but she is looking for it, which
> involves some selfishness and hurt along the way.
>
> Love, Lucy-Ruth
Yeah, that's good :) I think the more powerful points of the movie involved
letting us see what's behind these terribly flawed characters...and loving
them along with their flaws because of it...
Jim
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