American Beauty
Title: American Beauty
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 2042 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
American Beauty
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 2042 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
American Beauty
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
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the beauty that this world has to offer. However, he is not pessimistic in his conclusions. Like the flower the film is named after we can still bloom late and the appreciation for the beauty will last for eternity. Yet to reach a point to appreciate the beauty we must strip away the complex layers which we have surrounded ourselves with. This is Mendes point, the need to deconstruct the permeating ideologies within our culture.