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American beauties of film focuses on identity and beauty
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these words mean nothing by themselves their meaning comes from many places in
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details in the work
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the world delve into to figure out what it all meant turn the American nineteen
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nineties the then-president American Beauty setting immediately establishes a
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world where purpose is an unknown
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many were calling at the end of history a time of conflict over land and
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ideology on a global scale were things of the past a time where we could
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finally look into the mirror and try to surmise what our existence truly was
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meant for the notion there was no purpose was a depressing thought shared
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by the collective and with it comes a perfect backdrop for our ensemble
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american beauty is a film shot with purpose meaning every shot is pretty
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well thought out whether it's the framing of characters to appear larger
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and therefore stronger and repeated shots cutting away during dialogue to
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show the emotion more so than the intentionally conventional dialogue with
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the effective use of editing minimal lighting and music and make a scene
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truly feel like fantasy going over every scene would take too long but more
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specifics will be discussed is more ground is covered
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one last thing to mention before getting into the nitty-gritty is that the music
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works wonders and establishing mood and scenes and expressing to the audience
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what they should be feeling about a given moment
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not that it's not worth discussing further but it's a device that works in
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tandem to create meaning in the work starting with tone
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which is pretty perfectly split between somber overtones and light-hearted
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undertones sort of asked us you could possibly care less
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the comedy relief is used to break up sadness as usual
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don't be weird but also acts to highlight the fact that all these events
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aren't the end-all be-all most terrible thing tap into a person unlike stories
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that are intentionally dive through out to show just how about a situation is
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these moments work is a way to downplay the negative aspects just enough to make
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a realistic and to ground our characters in a believable world
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the full major cast is comprised of people going through identity crises are
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being lost to chasing an identity on last projected image of success
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teenage angst someone really should just put him out of his misery
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I'm gonna kill him .
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midlife crisis changed since 1973 retirement jitters split persona being
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put on a pedestal thinking just like a new guys at school
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what about me when they jerked off being damp and emotionally to meet somebody
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all these in a few minor things are on display and felt throughout the entire
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film
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I really don't feel like having a Kodak moment here okay
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you on grateful little brat all these acts are shown to be withholding life
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consuming or imprisoning the end up making each person a cardboard then
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standing for the lifestyle they choose to go after for you Brad
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I got five some of this is front-loaded in the beginning
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while other bits are doled out over time like say with Ricky little thing that I
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feel that anything to be ashamed of his being split is shown early on
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well it is yeah you're right but the full awful impact that style has only
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hits its peak after spending more time with them
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we'll get into the motif that is beauty in a minute but for now it's important
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to note that Ricky the trade is having the answer
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I can't take it
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at the film decides to show how terrible his life being that person is
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I either person to listen to in order to have a new perspective and the guy just
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placating with someone else's will you need discipline
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sure thank you for trying to teach me in fact the other people who follow him
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aren't really following him
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Lester season Ricky freedom more so than in sight
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I think you just became my personal hero shown in his actions of also quitting a
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job and taking up drugs
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however from this . Lester's and following the ideal beauty but of
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relaxation wish fulfillment nostalgia and childhood or rather teenager bigger
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only in the end does this change will get to that the other person in the
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story that follows rookies ways is the only person to not quite be in the same
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position as everyone else
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Jane is going through an identity crisis don't get me wrong but she hasn't taken
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that first step
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she's just waiting in other people's quicksand
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that's how things really are
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honestly though the film never betrays her is quite getting it either
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we're watching myself like a look
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she understands more towards the end of the narrative but she still focused on
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small happiness as opposed to the joy that the larger idea of beauty gives off
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with everyone else being portrayed negatively as disposable
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I am sick and tired of being treated like I don't exist narrowly focused
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Lester you're going to spill beer on the couch split on portrayal of self put on
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an unachievable kind of store
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unable to understand others you state your partner so what's your business for
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themselves and so on
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until their identities stepped away from for moments or months
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the film seems to want these people to seem broken and lost only glimpses
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outside of that
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so what about what they're all missing
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while explaining the characters I pretty heavily discussed the most of identity
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but works around the idea of beauty as moti beauties betrayed as pretty much
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anything as long as its small for me it was lying on my back at Boy Scout camp
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watching falling stars the small things in life if they're meaningless only
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great to the individual simply generically beautiful
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just look at everything you have well I was your age I lived in duplex
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we didn't even have our own house express forces beyond our control
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yesterday I realized that terrorists this entire life
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behind things things we felt that are objectively sad or just had to see this
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home is how many frosted ones just lying down the cycle
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she'll try said or
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in the world of the film it's the small things we look over or take for granted
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that give joy not a small smile or a minute of happiness but pure joy
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well at least I'm not ugly
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there are no definitive answers to what is beautiful sui and track some forms
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get put down rather than reaffirmed by others
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future which leads to the single most used symbol of the work
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the rose anyone can tell you rose symbolizes love and beauty but it's also
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a symbol of pain from those things and a step towards something outside of living
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to survive
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I plants as a core as opposed to food
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the rose in context with the film is all of these things at once the parallels
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angel of the most and is used heavily when she's around but extends is
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something that washes over the film so perfectly
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same as the idea of capturing beauty or happiness
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whether it's the continued use of the camera something that literally captures
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moments in time
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he has a poor excuse and now it helps me remember
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or say someone trying to capture the happiness they felt in days gone by
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subtext is apparent through the lens of everything else discuss this farm all
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the characters and their interactions create motif and outline the two major
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buzz words creates the underpinning that we call subtext and it all leads to
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thing
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identity is used as a synonym for meaningful life in some circles trying
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to force an identity is as problematic as having none at all
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it makes us narrow minded and withholds joy even living within an established
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life where you think one could build on themselves
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it still can keep people in a depressive state
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so how do we avoid this perhaps shutting off that passed obsession with the image
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being chased
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maybe it's just relaxing feels good to indulgence collagen have the things
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you're one . only dreamed of
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even the things that made you feel guilty session often leads to new
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obsession unfortunately which can get out of hand or inappropriate taking
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control of a shadow or mirror itself seems great but it involves so much
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turmoil
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yet there are those who live inside that state constantly which is another way to
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try and escape these identity crises but as stated it creates a person that can
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be happy and sees the things other people take for granted
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while on the other hand keeps them from experiencing full joy due to their split
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so if too much understanding quote on quote at one time has this getting
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obsessed with the new vision and only having a half the time star as a person
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miserable and what is embracing it throughout life
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I mean that's the way to live sure but who's like that
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I mean they're going to be those who haven't taken that first step into their
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mold yet but who would understand how to subvert this longing for meaning and
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identity from the beginning of life actually
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what even is this understanding that these partially enlightened are seeing
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joy from Beauty and the small things
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what does that entail why is it important is the beauty and what's
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behind things enough to create meaning
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probably not but isn't there join those things of small things if they are
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meaningless only great to the individual simply generically beautiful express
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forces beyond our control things we failed that are objectively sad or just
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arm isn't that something at least more than presenting ourselves for other
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people and hopes others exudes purpose
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I'm great
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thank you