Film Reveiew – American Beauty

I chose this image due to its difference to conventional take aimmaking, as instead of glorifying the chief(prenominal) characters, the ara and speckle, it shows fault and illustrates the main characters as no-good and unhappy. I chose to do this review on the opening minutes of the film describing in detail the photographic camera slams and eyepatch, as it would seem to the viewer reflexion for the prime(prenominal) time.The opening injection is a medium shot of the main characters daughter lying on a bed public lecture. The screen is fuzzy, to strain the impression of looking through a video camera. The daughter is talking to someone behind the camera, giving the impression of talking to the viewer or earreach. She is talking about how much she dislikes and hates her father (Lester, the main character). This gives the impression of watching a personal film and the viewer is involved, as it appears at commencement ceremony that the character is talking to the audie nce until the hidden person filming speaks. The word picture ends when the character behind the camera offers to kill the girls father. The screen goes blank and the film title appears in medium red print on a slow background, central to the screen. This sudden change from shot is to represent the plot to end a animateness, as the transition to a blank black screen.The abutting shot after the title is a top shot of a typical suburban American street on a slow zoom in towards the road. There is a narrative, male vowel system everywhere of the main character Lester, describing his death. This would appear to fit with the previous scene of the daughter talking about murdering her father This creates a feeling of specialty and suspense end-to-end the film, for the viewer, who is waiting to see what could have created such a gap between father and daughter. This effect of giving away the finis in the first scene is very effective in creating everlasting suspense end-to-end the film up to the dramatic climax. It has been used in many films and plays including William Shakespeares play Romeo and Juliet.Gradually when the camera zooms in the shot switches to a birds eye view of the main character lying in his bed, alone. This first shot of him shows him as lonely or incomplete even though he has a family. The camera thence changes to a close up of his face, which appears sad and disorientated, further showing his dislike for his current life style. There is then a jump cut to a pair of slippers on the news report next to the bed, beingfilmed from under the bed.This shot represents an ordered and schedule lifestyleas the slippers must have been placed neatly next to the bed the previous night. The next frame switches to a medium recollective shot of the main character (Lester) masturbating in the shower. The effect of this is to shock the audience further at the same time inspire pity at his frustrated and dull life as he continues to narrate over the fi lm about himself, showing little embarrassment.The next scene is a close up of a Rose flower, which is then cut from the be by a pair of pruning sheers. The Rose is constantly seen throughout the film, as well as rose petals, however rarely alive. They are usually in vases or on show. The roses, I feel, represent the lifestyle of the family. The rose looks perfect and appears very beautiful however it is dead. The family are similar, as they appear to have everything most people want, their health, nice house, money yet they are not happy. The roses are a constant theme throughout the film, I feel to remind us of the families unhappiness. The next frame sees the camera switch to a medium long shot of Carolyn (the main characters wife) guardianship the freshly cut rose in her hand. This shot represents that she too was erstwhile alive but is now dying inside like the rose.all(a) in all I found this film extremely evoke and thought provoking, I would recommend it to anybody who en joys twisting plots, amazing acting and some of the most brilliant (and strange) characters in modern day cinema. The slow unravelling of the plot keeps you guessing until the very end of the film, as well as ambitious modern day society and depicting modern day family life and the hypocrisy of Suburban America.