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American Beauty (1999)

Rate: 5
Viewed: 4/13

AmBe
4/13: American Beauty is an overrated movie that offers oversimplified generalizations for certain personality types.

Notice the characters showed no evidence of being part of a social group? It's impossible based on how they conduct their business, and therefore, that's what makes the outcomes unlikely.

American Beauty is a gross play of manipulations as an attempt to shape my thinking that these people and their goals are simple. Unfortunately, they aren't that shallow or everything as they seem to be in reality. After seeing the ending, I don't think so.

All in all, American Beauty is a perfect film for artsy-fartsy pseudo-intellectuals who thrive on hyperboles, labels, and simplifications.