American Beauty critique

American Beauty critique American Beauty directed by Sam Mendes won the Academy Award for the Best Original Screenplay and the Best Picture Award. Film critics restrained from clear-cut negative reviews, only ocassionally pointing out weaknesses of the the plot or the shallowness of main themes of the picture. The money invested in realization of this film certainly paid back yielding a high level of return (just in U.S.A. 130 million dollars). To cut a …

…human contacts, relations in family, and beauty in our lives, which are topics so up-to-date in our decade. Works cited: Ball, Alan. ‘The Early Draft of Script of American Beauty’ <http://www.geocities.com/ranksome5/americanbeauty.htm> Cones, W. John. ‘What’s Really Going on in Hollywood’. Rivas Canyon Press <http://www.melfilms.com/FIRM/whats.htm> Emerson, R. Waldoo ‘Nature’ from the collection of ‘Essays’ Fromm, Erich. ‘Work in Alienated Society’. Borzoi College Reader.