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american beauty
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American Beauty With close reference to the opening of the film American Beauty discuss the symbolic and technical codes used and explain how they relate to the American Dream. American Beauty was distributed by Dreamworks in 1999 and won 5 Oscars, including one for cinematography. It was based on a play written by Alan Ball, and was directed by Sam Mendes. It is about a suburbanite nuclear family that has gone super critical, superficial and materialistic. There are three people in the family, the father: Lester Burnham is played by Kevin Spacey. He is the narrator and leading character, a forty two year old married man, he earns £60, 000 a year as a writer for a magazine and is bored with his life. The wife and mother is called Carolyn and is played by Annette Benning. She is a false, cheerful, status-seeking perfectionist. The daughter is called Jane and is...
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