《美国丽人》英文角色分析
美国丽人 影评
美国丽人影评
《美国丽人》是一部让人深思的电影，它不仅仅是一部关于美国社会的剖析，更是一部关于人性的探讨。
影片通过多条平行的故事线，展现了美国中产阶级家庭的种种问题和矛盾，同时也揭示了每个人内心深处的挣扎和渴望。
影片中的角色形象鲜活而多维，每个人物都有着自己的独特性格和故事。
莱斯特（Kevin Spacey饰）是一个在工作和家庭中都备受压抑的中年男子，他的内心渴望自由和真实的生活，最终选择了一种极端的解脱方式。
他的妻子卡罗琳（Annette Bening饰）则是一个外表坚强内心脆弱的女人，她在追求完美的过程中逐渐迷失了自己。
他们的女儿简（Thora Birch饰）和邻居的儿子瑞奇（Wes Bentley饰）则代表了两种不同的叛逆和追求自由的方式，他们的相遇和交流让人深思。
影片的导演萨姆·门德斯以其独特的镜头语言和叙事手法，将这些角色的内心世界以及他们之间的关系展现得淋漓尽致。
影片的画面充满了对美国中产阶级生活的讽刺和批判，同时也透露出对生活的渴望和对真实的追求。
影片的音乐也极具特色，配合着故事情节和人物心理的转变，让人在观影过程中更加投入。
《美国丽人》让我对生活和人性有了更深刻的思考。
它让我意识到每个人都有着自己的独特的内心世界和渴望，而这种渴望往往是被社会、家庭和自身的束缚所压抑的。
影片中的每个角色都在追求着自己的美国梦，而最终他们都以不同的方式面对了现实。
这种对生活和人性的思考让我深受触动，也让我更加珍惜当下的生活和内心的真实。
总的来说，这部电影不仅仅是一部关于美国社会的剧情片，更是一部关于人性的精神之旅，它让我在观影过程中产生了深深的共鸣。
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Presented by：Angus, David H., David K., Denis, Didier, Ginger, Yvette.
Nucleus Family and Suburban Life in America
• Suburbia in the United States: The Ideal Image of A Home: At the very beginning, also in the end of the film, we can see the neatly lined up houses. A perfect neighborhood, tranquil and peaceful ambience. Normality: On the surface every house is identical, the shape, the silhouette, the colour of the houses, the size of the gardens…etc. However, the interior varies so are the different families. They encounter different obstacles and share diffout, playing music out loud in the garage. - Buying the car he always dreamed of:
Carolyn Burnham: Uh, whose car is that out front? Lester Burnham: Mine. 1970 Pontiac Firebird. The car I've always wanted and now I have it. I rule! (Clip?)
美国丽人英文影评
1美国丽人 American Beauty"American Beauty" is a comedy because we laugh at the absurdity of the hero's problems.And a tragedy because we can identify with his failure--not the specific details, but the general outline.The movie is about a man who fears growing older, losing the hope of true love and not being respected by those who know him best. If you never experience those feelings, take out a classified ad. People want to take lessons from you.Lester Burnham, the hero of "American Beauty," is played by Kevin Spacey as a man who is unloved by his daughter, ignored by his wife and unnecessary at work. "I'll be dead in a year," he tells us in almost the first words of the movie. "In a way, I'm dead already." The movie is the story of his rebellion.We meet his wife, Carolyn (Annette Bening), so perfect her garden shears are coordinated with her footwear. We meet his daughter Jane (Thora Birch), who is saving up for breast implants even though augmentation is clearly unnecessary; perhaps her motivation is not to become more desirable to men, but to make them miserable about what they can't have."Both my wife and daughter think I'm this chronic loser," Lester complains. He is right. But they are not without their reasons. At an agonizing family dinner, Carolyn plays Mantovanian music that mocks every mouthful; the music is lush and reassuring, and the family is angry and silent. When Lester criticizes his daughter's attitude, she points out correctly that he has hardly spoken to her in months.Everything changes for Lester the night he is dragged along by his wife to see their daughter perform as a cheerleader. There on the floor, engrossed in a sub-Fosse pompon routine, he sees his angel: Angela (Mena Suvari), his daughter's high-school classmate. Is it wrong for a man in his 40s to lust after a teenage girl? Any honest man understands what a complicated question this is. Wrong morally, certainly, and legally. But as every woman knows, men are born with wiring that goes directly from their eyes to their genitals, bypassing the higher centers of thought. They can disapprove of their thoughts, but they cannot stop themselves from having them."American Beauty" is not about a Lolita relationship, anyway. It's about yearning after youth, respect, power and, of course, beauty. The momenta man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside and starts writing snarfy letters disapproving of paragraphs like the one above. Lester's thoughts about Angela are impure, but not perverted; he wants to do what men are programmed to do, with the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.Angela is not Lester's highway to bliss, but she is at least a catalyst for his freedom. His thoughts, and the discontent they engender, blast him free from years of emotional paralysis, and soon he makes a cheerful announcement at the funereal dinner table: "I quit my job, told my boss to - - - - himself and blackmailed him for $60,000." Has he lost his mind? Not at all. The first thing he spends money on is perfectly reasonable: a bright red 1970 Pontiac Firebird.Carolyn and Jane are going through their own romantic troubles. Lester finds out Carolyn is cheating when he sees her with her lover in the drive-through lane of a fast-food restaurant (where he has a job he likes). Jane is being videotaped by Ricky (Wes Bentley), the boy next door, who has a strange light in his eyes. Ricky's dad (Chris Cooper) is a former Marine who tests him for drugs, taking a urine sample every six months; Ricky plays along to keep the peace until he can leave home.All of these emotional threads come together during one dark and stormy night, when there is a series of misunderstandings so bizarre they belong in a screwball comedy. And at the end, somehow, improbably, the film snatches victory from the jaws of defeat for Lester, its hero. Not the kind of victory you'd get in a feel-good movie, but the kind where you prove something important, if only to yourself."American Beauty" is not as dark or twisted as "Happiness," last year's attempt to shine a light under the rock of American society. It's more about sadness and loneliness than about cruelty or inhumanity. Nobody is really bad in this movie, just shaped by society in such a way they can't be themselves, or feel joy.The performances all walk the line between parody and simple realism; Thora Birch and Wes Bentley are the most grounded, talking in the tense, flat voices of kids who can't wait to escape their homes. Bening's character, a real estate agent who chants self-help mantras, confuses happiness with success--bad enough if you're successful, depressing if you're not.And Spacey, an actor who embodies intelligence in his eyes and voice, is the right choice for Lester Burnham. He does reckless and foolish things in this movie, but he doesn't deceive himself; he knows he's running wild--and chooses to, burning up the future years of an empty lifetimefor a few flashes of freedom. He may have lost everything by the end of the film, but he's no longer a loser.2美国丽人 American BeautyIt’s a tricky business to leave American Beauty feeling all right, but the film works very hard to make that possible, despite its dismal representation of suburban living.Scripted by first-time screenwriter Alan Ball (who used to write for Cybill and off-Broadway) and directed by British theater veteran Sam Mendes (Cabaret, The Blue Room), the film features Thora Birch, once Harrison Ford’s school-uniformed daughter in the Tom Clancy movies, now a really pissed-off teen named Jane, living in the generic ’burbs with her hateful and self-hating parents, Lester (Kevin Spacey) and Carolyn (Annette Bening). The poor kid doesn’t have a chance. She’s a morose cheerleader with pale skin and red-red lipstick, as well as a blond, burstingly beautiful best friend, Angela (Mena Suvari, the golden girl of American Pie), also on the squad, who absorbs all attention whenever they’re in the same space.Birch is absolutely brilliant. Her sophisticated performance of Jane’s despair and aspirations — to be like Angela, to be loved by her father or someone resembling him, to be anywhere but where she is, in a room where her mother is melting down before her eyes — save American Beauty from comic, surreal overkill. She anchors the film’s easy-target hysterics in a character whose face — more than any dialogue or situation —registers the dark nuances of adolescent fear, disgust and longing.However, most critical attention has been centered on the movie’s insights into Lester’s horrific existence. This is understand able, as he is the narrator. Right off the bat he tells us, "This is my life. In less than a year, I’ll be dead. Of course, I don’t know that yet. In a way I’m dead already." The language is brutal and lyrical. The scene beneath the voiceover is alarmingly sterile but extremely familiar: an overhead shot of a suburban neighborhood, all the houses alike, all the streets going nowhere. In an instant, he’s sympathetic, the heart of the film. You anticipate and dread his death, and wonder who will be responsible.You’re led to believe that it’s Jane, indirectly or otherwise. The very first shot in the film is her face, on video, pouting. She’s talking to whoever holds the camera, whom we learn later is her boyfriend, a strange, desperate and abused new neighbor named Ricky (Wes Bentley). He affords his elaborate entertainment system by selling pot (to her dad) but he spends most of his time videotaping everyone, in particular Jane at all hours, from any position he can manage, as she crosses her lawn, gossipsin the schoolyard, passes by her bedroom window. In this first scene, she talks about how unhappy she is, and how much she dislikes Lester. "I need a father who’s a role model," she says. "Someone should put him out of his misery." Off camera, Ricky offers to kill him for her.This offer is certainly foreboding, especially since it’s followed by Lester’s announcement of his imminent demise. As the action proceeds, Jane is revealed as being typically teenagerish in her wrath: that is, not convinced that what she thinks she wants is really what she wants. (Angela says that the worst thing is to be "ordinary," and Jane believes her for most of the film, also accepting Angela’s plainly unfounded judgment that she —Jane —is ordinary.) She’s also passive and fearfu l, despite her desperation, characteristics she’s absorbed from Lester and Carolyn (who sells real estate badly and has an affair with the local "real estate king," played by Peter Gallagher). But Ricky, he’s another story: a ticking time bomb, embodying the stereotype that suburban white boys are fast becoming in today’s mass-media eye. His backstory includes a pathologically passive mom (Allison Janney) and a menacing dad, Marine Colonel Frank Fitts (Chris Cooper, devastating in a truly troubling role).F itts’ salient traits are ruthlessness, rigidity and homophobia —the ’90s insta-signs of imminent suburban-guy breakdown — which definitively set him apart from Lester, who genuinely likes his gay neighbors and who becomes remarkably flexible once he loses his advertising job and falls in love with Angela. This latter development comes to resembles Lolita, in that Angela relishes her role as jailbait, misunderstanding it as a means to self-worth (a typical girl’s mistake, hardly pathological in her given en vironment). Lester’s redemption takes up the movie’s length and emotional focus, but he leaves walking disasters in his wake: most obviously, his undone wife andguilt-traumatized child.By the time these results become clear to you, the film will be over. It ends, as it promises in its opening frames, with Lester’s death. The face that will haunt you is Jane’s, as it haunts her father, her boyfriend and her mother. Mopey and dreamy, implacable and lovely, Jane, like Lissa in Best Laid Plans, wants more than she can imagine. If only the movies around them were so ambitious.American Beauty 美国丽人英语影评And there were a lot of great ones this year. I will also say something even (possibly) bolder--that Kevin Spacey gives the performance of his career. And all us movie geeks know that is saying a LOT, given this man's past roles, and his talent. I used to think he was overrated as an actor. Then I figured OK, I see what all the fuss is about. Now, he's up there with my favorite actors of all time, with James Woods, Steve Buscemi, Robert Deniro...probably in the top 5.I was lucky enough to see a free screening this afternoon and boy, am I glad I had the privilege. In fact, this review might not even be that coherent- it's one of those movies that blows you away so much that you have trouble even putting your feelings into words.The plotline sounds trite when you first describe it (it did to me when I first heard about it), Spacey plays a man who describes himself as a loser, with Annette Bening as his horrible, shrewish, self-absorbed, pathetic b*tch of a wife. His daughter is not all that likeable either, despite the fact that you can understand why she turned out this way, with her as a mother. Just when you think you've met the most dysfunctional family in the world outside of "Happiness", you find out about the family who just moved in next door. At first, the strange son seems like the most messed-up member of their brood, but after you get to meet his ex-military, abusive, homophobic, terrifying father and his withdrawn, sad, headcase mother, you realize he is the most normal member of the household by far. Then, the filmwriters toss in Kevin Spacey's lustful obsession with his daughter's sexkitten cheerleader friend, which trust me, is a lot more fun, entertaining, and amusing than it sounds when you read about it. Soon, he is having the most entertaining, amusing midlife crisis ever seen in the history of cinema. He just doesn't give a ***k about what he does or says anymore, and you only wish you could get away with doing the things he does.I found myself laughing out loud in this movie so many times, most of it horrified, amazed laughter at what is happening and the things that are coming out of the character's mouths, especially Spacey's. He had at least a dozen lines that had every member of the audience in hysterics and actual applause and cheers.I can't say enough good things about this movie. You think, after the first five minutes, that you know how the movie will end. Well, Spacey's opening narrative does give it away, but trust me, the events unfold in a way that you will NEVER see coming. You will swear you can see what a character is going to do next, what violent or self-destructice act they will commit, but you turn out to be wrong.Without getting too pretentious here, the movie lives up to it's theme/tagline of "...look closer". THe characters are not what they seem, up until the end, and even then they surprise you. At least two characters that you are POSITIVE you have figured out, do or say something that turns all your preconceptions of them upside down, while making your jaw drop, and your heart ache. You will leave the movie with a smile, though, and that is maybe what I expected least of all.影评作业"American Beauty" is a comedy because we laugh at the absurdity of the hero's problems. And a tragedy because we can identify with hisfailure--not the specific details, but the general outline.The movie is about a man who fears growing older, losing the hope of true love and not being respected by those who know him best.Lester Burnham, the hero of "American Beauty," who is unloved by his daughter, ignored by his wife and unnecessary at work. "I'll be dead in a year," he tells us in almost the first words of the movie. "In a way, I'm dead already." The movie is the story of his rebellion.We meet his wife, Carolyn , so perfect her garden shears are coordinated with her footwear. We meet his daughter Jane , who is saving up for breast implants even though augmentation is clearly unnecessary; perhaps her motivation is not to become more desirable to men, but to make them miserable about what they can't have.American Beauty" is not about a Lolita relationship, anyway. It's about yearning after youth, respect, power and, of course, beauty. The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside and starts writing snarfy letters disapproving of paragraphs like the one above. Lester's thoughts about Angela are impure, but not perverted; he wants to do what men are programmed to do, with the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.All of these emotional threads come together during one dark and stormy night, when there is a series of misunderstandings so bizarre they belong in a screwball comedy. And at the end, somehow, improbably, the film snatches victory from the jaws of defeat for Lester, its hero. Not the kind of victory you'd get in a feel-good movie, but the kind where you prove something important, if only to yourself."American Beauty" is not as dark or twisted as "Happiness," last year's attempt to shine a light under the rock of American society. It's more about sadness and loneliness than about cruelty or inhumanity. Nobody is really bad in this movie, just shaped by society in such a way they can't be themselves, or feel joy.He does reckless and foolish things in this movie, but he doesn't deceive himself; he knows he's running wild--and chooses to, burning up the future years of an empty lifetime for a few flashes of freedom. He may have lost everything by the end of the film, but he's no longer a loser.。
美国丽人 (American Beauty)
美国丽人 (American Beauty)
《美国丽人》是一部令人深思的电影，它以其深刻的人物刻画和引人入胜的故
事情节而闻名。
影片讲述了一个普通家庭的故事，却揭示了其中的复杂和矛盾。
导演萨姆·门德斯通过对家庭、社会和人性的观察，呈现了一个充满现代社会压
力和矛盾的世界。
影片的主题之一是对美国梦的探讨。
主人公莱斯特·伯恩厌倦了日复一日的平庸
生活，他渴望自由和幸福，却发现自己陷入了更加深重的困境。
这种对现实生
活的不满和追求更高境界的愿望，让观众们对自己的生活产生了深刻的反思。
影片还深刻地描绘了家庭关系和人际关系的复杂性。
莱斯特和他的妻子卡罗琳
之间的关系紧张而脆弱，他们的女儿简也面临着青春期的挑战。
而邻居家的少
女安吉拉则代表了年轻一代对美好未来的追求。
这些角色之间的纠葛和矛盾，
让观众们对人际关系和家庭生活产生了深刻的共鸣。
影片的摄影和音乐也是其成功的关键因素。
影片中的镜头语言和画面构图都展
现了导演对细节的把握和对情感的表达。
配乐更是为影片增添了许多情感色彩，让观众们更加深入地感受到了影片中角色的内心世界。
总的来说，《美国丽人》是一部令人难忘的电影，它通过对现实生活的观察和对人性的探索，给观众们带来了深刻的共鸣。
这部电影不仅仅是一部娱乐作品，
更是一部引人深思的艺术之作。
美国丽人
《美国丽人》------遗失的美好故事的人物很平凡，一个普通的美国中产阶级家庭，丈夫伯哈姆、妻子卡罗琳、未成年的女儿珍妮。
像所有的美国中产阶级家庭一样，他们有宽敞的房子，有车，男主人温文尔雅、女主人端庄，女儿漂亮。
在常人眼里，他们幸福、快乐。
当然，那只是常人眼里。
事实上，伯哈姆和卡罗琳已经很久没有激情再相互抱一抱，珍妮和她的父母除了日常的交谈，仿佛都没有任何说话的欲望。
伯哈姆烦透了他所从事的工作，在痛骂了一番部门主管后，辞去了他在一家广告公司的工作，转而到一家快餐店卖汉堡。
妻子的嘲笑、女儿的冷落让他烦透了这种平庸无味的生活。
终于有一天，当伯哈姆遇上了女儿的同学安吉拉时，他立刻被安吉拉的美丽深深地打动，心中的那种久已死去的感觉好像又重新的复燃了…… 就在他为了能够使安吉拉喜欢而疯狂锻炼身体时，卡罗琳和一位地产大亨有了外遇，而他们苦闷的女儿珍妮则在邻家一个被父亲管教甚严的孤僻男孩身上寻求些许心灵的安顿。
故事的结局有些感伤：地产王子和卡罗琳分手了，理由很简单，“成功的事业必须有成功的家庭。
”至少表面上应该这样，他拒绝和他的妻子离婚。
珍妮和那个男孩离开了家。
而随着“怦”的一声，伯哈姆自杀了。
记得死之前，安吉拉曾经问过他一句话：“你快乐吗？”听了这句话，伯哈姆笑了，过去的一暮暮清晰的在他眼前闪现。
快乐的童年，幸福的恋爱时光、惬意的蜜月、可爱的小天使的出生……过去的一切似乎真的很快乐。
那么，从什么时候，快乐不见了呢？电影放完了，心中却有些沉重。
也许故事的结局悲惨了一些，但是我们这生活在地球上的芸芸众生又有几个是真正的快乐呢？有多少对所谓相敬如宾的夫妻早已在琐碎的生活中失去了当初的激情？也许并不是很多吧。
我很庆幸，自己生活在一个融洽而民主的家庭，我们三个人都彼此深深相爱着。
可是，我总觉得，随着年龄的增长，我好象不太容易快乐了。
不知从哪一天起，我不可以像儿时想说什么就说什么，我开始学会察言观色，我开始提防着周围的一些对我不够友好的人。
影评 美国丽人 全英文 500字The Conflict of American beauty
The Conflict of American beautyThe movie is titled with American beauty, which is a kind of American flower whose anthesis is short. As is shown in the movie, beautiful things will never last for a long time. Even the death symbolizing beauty in Ricky’s eyes won’t remain permanently. People’s pursuit of beauty has never been stopped. Thus, conflict emerges.In the pursuit of beauty, someone indulges themselves in illusion, while others choose to face the truth and awaken himself from dull boring life. This is strongly highlighted between Lester and Carolyn. Lester, a man at the age of forties, underwent the midlife crisis, only to get comfort to jerk off in the toilet. When he saw his daughter’s friend—Angela, he found the beauty of his life. What he was going to do revealed his determination to face the truth of dull life and awakening himself. Lester quitted his job and started to work out. The moment he was going to have sex with Angela and knew that Angela was virgin, he realized the most beautiful moment was to spend time with the people you really love, which was evidently shown in the scene he died.Carolyn, a working-mother control freak,whose pruning shears perfectly match her gardening clogs and whose personality proves as phony as her faithfulness, indulged herself in delusive phantom—the seemingly harmonious family, expensive-decorated house. Actually, she betrayed her husband and family to engage an affair with her real estate idol, and the expensive-decorated house came with mortgage. On the way of chasing the phony beauty, what she missed was the love from husband and daughter, and her own soul.Besides, in the pursuit of beauty, someone chooses to hold back, while someone choose not to hide, which is evidently shown between Ricky and Frank Fitts. Ricky, a drug, had never hidden his reverence and love for death. In his opinion, the death is the same as the second of god’s staring, from which people could see the beauty. The passage of life is amazing. The video tape of the plastic bag floating in the air and his witnessing of the homeless woman frozen to death showed his respect and appreciation to life and death plainly and frankly. As he said in the movie, “there was this entire life behind things and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know that there was no reason to be afraid ever… sometimes there is so much beauty in the world, that I feel like I can’t take it, and my heart is just going to cave in”.Nevertheless, Frank Fitts, an US Marine Corps, who had his entire life complied withprinciples and routine and held the hatred of gays, was actually a homosexual. How ironic it was. He chose to hold back his inner desire of facing his sex-orientation bravely, which resulted in his wife’s mental illness and his son’s rebellion. His cowardice restrained his pursuit of life beauty. When he nerved himself to Lester, only to find that he met the wrong man. What he could do was to end Lester’s life, and continued to keep his principle and routines.Thus, the right attitude to beauty is to try to relax, and don’t hold on to it. And then all the beauty will flow through you like rain to make you feel gratitude to life.对死亡充满敬畏。
美国丽人AmericanBeauty英文影评
美国丽人 American Beauty 英文影评Nothing beats death for establishing a detached, omniscient point of view, and from the very beginning of Sam Mendes's haunting and accomplished debut feature (and one of the year's first significant films), it's made clear that its hero, middle-aged, middle-class lost soul Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) is a goner. Lester's flashback voiceover narration has the sardonic serenity of the beyond, an anarchistic wisdom as he observes himself jerking off in the shower ("This will be the highlight of my day), spies on wife Carolyn (a strident and fragile Annette Bening) tending the title roses ("See how her clogs match the handles of her pruning shears? It's not a coincidence."), or looks in on sullen and unhappy daughter Jane (Thora Birch, with soulful, accusing eyes) surfing the Internet for breast augmentation sites ("I'd tell her things get better, but I don't want to lie"). His secret? "In less than a year, I'll be dead. . . . But in a sense, I'm dead already."Who actually kills Lester is a mystery. Is it Jane, who's shown on video saying her dad is a "lame-o" who should be put out of his misery? Carolyn, who takes out her frustrations at the shooting range? Colonel Fitts (Chris Cooper), the new neighbor with the militant right-wing views and the extensive firearms collection? In the end, it makes no difference.As for Lester's spiritual death, it's one of the most common themes in American literature and film, and Mendes and first-time writer Alan Ball deserve credit for bringing this hollow man to life. Mostly, though, it's Spacey's movie, as his impeccable timing, coy superciliousness and rueful knowingness provide the tone and tension that illuminate it. Like the gimpy loser he played in The Usual Suspect, his Lester starts out unimpressively, embarrassing himself in front of his wife and daughter both in social settings and at the dinner table. But Spacey's diabolical smile suggests that his days as suburban doormat adrift in a '90s updating of John Cheever's white-collar wasteland (the film is reminiscent of that writer's "The Country Husband") will not be for long.His rebirth begins at a high-school basketball game where he and Carolyn, in a misconceived attempt to be better parents, watch Jane run through a new dance routine with the cheerleading squad. His patient gaze changes to ardor as the camera singles out the nubile features of Angela (vivid newcomer Mena Suvari), whose insinuating smile seems meant just for him. Mendes, however, overplays the moment: a spotlight shines on Angela, everyone else in the gym disappears, and she opens her blouse to unleash a cascade of rose petals, the hallmark of Lester's fantasy sequences, and one of the film's less compelling metaphors for beauty.Mendes is more restrained in Lester's second epiphany, when at a shindig for Carolyn's real-estate job he slips out back with Ricky Fitts (Wes Bentley, like a laconic Christian Slater with spooky presence), the colonel's son, who's catering the affair. Tiny figures framed by a blank wall and the asphalt of a parking lot, the two get loopy and hilarious on the dope that is the real source of Ricky's income. "I think you're become my new personal hero," says Lester when Ricky quits and tells his intruding boss to get lost.In effect Ricky becomes the film's hero, too, since he embodies the youth, idealism, and poetry that Lester abandoned along with his dream of owning a 1970 Firebird. Ricky also embodies much of the visual sense that distinguishes the style of this director (who's known for his striking stage productions of Cabaret and The Blue Room). Oppressed by his fascist dad (one of the film's few stereotypes that fails to transcend itself), Ricky buys video equipment with his dope money and shoots random moments of morbid beauty, such as a dead bird, a whirling plastic bag in a leaf-littered alley, and Lester's bruised-petal daughter. It's the beginning of a courtship between Ricky and Jane, and the interplay of self-conscious imagery, voyeurism, and desire recalls Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies and videotape and Krzysztof Kieslowski's A Short Film About Love.Lester, meanwhile, pumps iron while stoned to get buff for Angela, extorts a year's severance pay from his soul-destroying job, and is mostly amused when his wife has an affair with Buddy Kane (a graying Peter Gallagher, looking like a monstrous fusion of George Hamilton and Michael Dukakis), the real-estate king. The details of the dead man's ultimate fate are a bit of a letdown, but as he posthumously notes, it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world, and in that regard, this near-masterpiece is true to its title.。
《美同丽人》：对自南的追求与逃避
黄碧莹内容摘要：《美国丽人》（American Beauty）是2000年度第27届奥斯卡最佳影片，影片以两个典型的美国中产阶级家庭为叙述对象，表现在平淡无奇的日常生活中隐藏着的巨大的精神危机。
赖斯特机械式地重复着毫无激情的生活；卡洛琳受奴役于物质和金钱利益；费兹对权力盲目崇拜。
他们以各自不同的方式做着相同的事情——逃避自由。
影片反映了现代人的精神危机：每个人表面上是自由的，实际上并没有获得真正的自由；表面上在追求自由，实际上在逃避自由。
关键词：《美国丽人》《逃避自由》弗罗姆自由《美国丽人》（American Beauty）是2000年度第27届奥斯卡最佳影片，并且囊括最佳导演、最佳原创剧本、最佳摄影、最佳男主角四项奖项，取得了巨大成功。
影片以两个典型的美国中产阶级家庭为叙述对象，表现在平淡无奇的日常生活中隐藏着的巨大的精神危机，这样的精神危机普遍存在于现代人之中。
本文将结合埃里希·弗罗姆的《逃避自由》一书中的相关观点,通过对影片中人物形象的分析，试图揭示现代人面临的自由困境以及在这一困境中人的挣扎与消亡。
一影片从赖斯特的自白展开，讲述他临死前一年内发生的事情。
赖斯特是广告公司的一名普通职员，每天做着自己不喜欢的工作，还要忍受上司的各种不合理的要求。
在生活中，表面上看有一个和睦幸福的家庭，但一切都是美好的粉饰。
她的妻子卡洛琳，是一名房产推销员，为了推销房子近乎走火入魔。
两人从多年前开始就貌合神离、同床异梦。
而他们的女儿珍妮，因为日渐失去父母的关心，倍感孤独。
整个家其实已经完全破裂。
另一个家庭，赖斯特的邻居，同样有一个怪异的家。
大家长费兹中校，性格乖僻，每一次自我介绍时都强调自己是“海军陆战队法兰克费兹中校”，崇尚纪律和规矩，极其痛恨同性恋。
他的妻子在家庭中没有一丝地位，整日坐在客厅里发呆，眼神呆滞、反应迟钝。
儿子瑞奇表面非常顺从，私底下则从事大麻交易。
弗罗姆认为，几个世纪以来，人们挣脱了枷锁、摆脱了原始的束缚，在政治、经济以及宗教信仰上获得了自由。
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A Brief Analysis Of Lester Burnham In 《American Beauty》
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Introduction
《American Beauty》is directed by Sam Meendes. The main character in this film is called Lester Burnham . He has a wife named Carolyn Burnham and a daughter Jane Burnhan . Lester is forty-two years old and feels his life is flat and dull ,feeling that he has lost something .Then his daughter’s friend Angela Hages came into his life and many changes happened in his life and sense.At last, he finds his personality. But the people around hi m don’t understand him and finally killed him. This film brings the social problems in American society to light. Although the film is over ,we are still in thinking .
Key Words
Lester Burn ham changes personality social problems
(一）Summarization of the spot of the film
“My name is Lester, This is my hometown,this is my street,this is my life.I’m 42 years old and last in the year.I’ll be dead .Of course,I don’t know that yet.And in little way, I’m dead already ……Both my wife and my daughter think I’m a lose r and they are right.I have lost something.I’m not exactly sure what it is,but I know I didn’t always feel this,but do you know what?It’s never too late to get it back .”This is the beginning of the film.
Lester is an ordinary editor,face the unemployment crisis and feels empty.His wife is a real estate agent and works hard to achieve success.His daughter Jane Burham is an junior middle school student and at the age of revolting time. This family is not harmonious as outside looks.
When Lester saw Angela,everything changed.He knows he should live for himself and he quits his job that he doesn’t like it and begin s to take drug and exercise. He don’t care that his wife has betrayed him.He wants to have Angela,but when this day comes, he gives up her. At the moment before he was killed,he knows the sense of life.
（二）Social problems that the film reveals
In my opinion, the success of this film is that It has revealed the social problems that exist in American society.
In real life,many people live unhappily and they have lost their personality. They don’t know what is really they want and they are like to live in a cage. The cage is made by themselves. They use their old and rigid moral concept to firm this cage and make it smaller. They don’t have the idea or take any actions to change this situation. They even laugh at or try to make conflict with those who have gotten our of the cage and try to chase happiness and real freedom. They are like Carolyn Burnham who wants to kill his husband when she is in rage. They also like Barbara Fitts , a gay, when he is rejected by Lester he killed him. In
their eyes, Lester is not normal, his behavior is beyond what they can understand.
（三）The review of that the film gives us
The film is about two hours, not very long, but the content is very much. It let us to think those over: What is a life? What is the most important in life? How should we live? How should we treat others who are different with us? And so on.
Conclusion
Out of question, this film is very successful and it has received many rewards. The most important role Lester tells us what is the real sense of life and the way we should take to live: keep personality, chase happiness and freedom, respect and understand others’ ways of life!
Reference
<<Appreciating Cinema>> Andrew Lynn。