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I am so glad I got my iPad a case from iPad cases uk otherwise it could have broken by now and I would not have been able to spend today reading about American Beauty, one of my favourite films.

The film opens with a birds-eye view of the Burnhams’ suburban neighbourhood with the main character, Lester, narrating the admission that he will soon die. Professor Ann C. Hall believes that be presenting an immediate resolution to the mystery of how the film will end, the audient can now put that aside a ‘view the film and its philosophical issues’. It frees the audience from the strictures of beginning, middle and end in films and allows them to concentrate on the film’s messages.

It is undeniable that American Beauty represents a satire of American middle class notions of what is beautiful, satisfactory and meaningful. The characters are all driven by incorrect notions of what these three concepts are. Carolyn, Lester’s wife, is driven by conventionally accepted views of happiness, her gardening outfit and ‘house beautiful’ domestic bliss are testimony to her subscription to culturally conditioned notions of what it is to be happy.