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American Beauty
(1999)
Directed by Sam Mendes , written by Alan Ball
Some movies have a moral. I say that as a mere statement of fact,
with no implication that either having or not having a moral necessarily
makes a movie better or worse. Some movies have a moral; American
Beauty — and this is also a mere observation, not a value
judgment — has an aesthetic. “There’s so much beauty
in the world,” says Ricky (Wes Bentley), a teenaged videographer
with a poet’s soul who can see the beauty in a plastic bag
swirling in the wind or a dead pigeon lying on the grass. “I
feel like I can’t take it, like my heart’s going to cave
in.” Click here
to read the rest of this review by Steven D. Greydanus at Decent
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