American Beauty's Comments on Society

Film - American Beauty Director – Sam Mendes Script – Alan Ball What Comments is ‘American Beauty’ Making About Modern Society? ‘American Beauty’, directed by Sam Mendes, is simply a study of a dysfunctional American Family which reveals the nature of modern suburbia with wit, precision, and invention. Allan Balls script continually explores ideas about what constitutes ordinariness in our lives and what ‘beauty’ truly is, and why people who have everything, live ‘lives of desperation’. Far …

…are is being denied. Lester can’t even see the woman he married in Carolyn anymore. It seems people strive to hard to get a nice white picket fence. The film ‘American Beauty’ is an artistic way of telling us money and nice things aren’t everything. Never has there been more prosperous populations like there are today, and never have people been so profoundly unhappy and unfulfilled by the things we think we need.