American Beauty 1999

The film, directed by Sam Mendes.

There is a tragic atmosphere around in this inharmonious American middle-class family. Truly pure love and reality, becomes the biggest contrast. Not to mention the intention to embellishment, but as the start and end of the same-sex love. Use a form of violence, cruelty, and struggling to confuse the balance of the world may seem dull.


In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been spilit between active/male and passive /female. The determining male gaze projects its phantasy on to the female figure which is styled accordingly. In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be looked-at-ness.