The Diary Game 26/10/2021 - American Beauty. It's a Great Thing When You Realize You Still Have The Ability to Surprise Yourself.

Here is an American film close to perfection, which reveals so realistically our world full of weirdos, full of frustrated people, full of monotony and boredom that we want to get rid of, everything happening to each of us or at least to those who we consider ourselves to be part of the middle class of society.

And we are not talking now only about the American one, although this is the trend, but about each of the possible worlds, recognizing it in our country as well. Everyone can say like Lester Burnham: This is my neighborhood. This is my street. This is my life".

There comes a moment in the life of each of us (at middle age even more so) when we realize that everything is searbad, that nothing happens and every moment moves by itself: the morning shower (with moments of masturbation ), breakfast, leaving for the job you hate, but which brings you a secure source of income, back home, sleep.

Without too much sex or not at all, without caresses or kisses in the dark, you almost hate your children because they have a happy and full of unpredictable life, when and when you go forced to some parties or conferences, where you swallow several glasses of whiskey , hoping to escape faster.

At one point, you see a desert, a teenager who reminds you of the splendors of life: youth, happiness, love. Everything changes, you are instantly in love and you do everything to be noticed, to be noticed, to get to your bed: you run, you exercise, you get rid of your belly, new passions and new friends appear overnight , recruited from the same age-adolescent.

And, overnight, you take drugs, get drunk, resign and swear at your bosses, you get a job in an obscure position, but without responsibilities, you become happy again and with your feet on the table. And… She observes you, sees the change, you are everything she wanted.

And American Beauty becomes your own American Dream, not the ideal of having a home, of having a family and a car, all the comfort and all the unhappiness. All this goes on the water of Saturday, you need sparks, love, appreciation. Monotony kills. Will everything go as you dream? With fragrant baths in which she is full of rose petals? With the bed where she was waiting for him among the same flowers?

Eventually, the illusion becomes reality and reality a nightmare. Because, ultimately, everything you have created through change can turn into something worse. People do not understand your change and turn against the one who does not obey the rules of society. But you saw the beauty of life.

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American Beauty il film capolavoro di Sam Mendes

YouTube Sources:

AMERICAN BEAUTY | Trailer