"Beauty is American." Actors who criticize everyday life

"Beauty in American" (actors: C. Spacey, A. Bening, T. Birch, W. Bentley) is Sam Mendes's debut full-length work, made amazingly powerful. It is no coincidence that this film was awarded five "Oscars". There are some difficulties in determining the genre policy of the picture. Film critics called the film a social satire, a philosophical parable, a drama and even a melodrama. So complex and individual in the perception of the film "Beauty in American style." The actors who took part in the shootings are unanimous in opinion, they assert that they were shot in a tragicomedy.

Plot

The plot of the film is quite simple and even in a sense banal. The beginning of the film from individual viewers caused a really dreary feeling. According to the story, the main character Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) in his 42 years feels like a hopeless loser, tired of life. A man can not stand his work, his wife and can not find an understanding with his daughter (Tora Birch). He can not hypocrite further, the hero wants change. A certain impetus to his adventures is several events: a colonel homophobic with his son selling marijuana is being moved into the house next door, and a sexy, simple girl, the age of his daughter Angela (Mina Suvari), has visited them. The girl immediately turned Lester's head. The man starts smoking, at the same time tries to play sports and changes the prestigious position in the company to work in a roadside cafeteria. It seems to the hero that he is happy. At the same time, his wife finds a lover, and her daughter reflects on how wonderful it would be if her father was killed by someone.

Love and Beauty

The title of the painting "American Beauty" (actors vied with each other in interviews with the media) is not accidental. Through the red line through the entire plot of the film, dominating, pass both beauty and love. Nevertheless, the picture touches on many other important problems: the conflict between fathers and children, the infamous mid-life crisis, falsity and hypocrisy, on which relations are built in society and a single family. In the film, the ratio of content and form is ideally maintained, the picture is multilayered both in the semantic and in the plot plan. The film "American Beauty" is favorably distinguished by a good direction and Alan Ball's well-scripted scenario, a remarkable actor's play, of course, first of all Kevin Spacey. His hero invariably evokes the sympathy of the viewer, although his image is quite contradictory. Mark is also the professional work of the operator Conrad L. Hall: those episodes when the shooting comes as it were on behalf of Ricky, a real find.

Cold perfectionist

Spouse of the main character Caroline Burnham was played by the four-time nominee for the Oscar-winning American actress Annette Bening. Her character - a sexually unsatisfied careerist, is drawn into an adventure, which from a cold perfectionist turns Caroline into a passionate, liberated woman. The actress is known to the viewer for the pictures: "Mars is attacking!", "Bugsy", "Babes are in order", "Love story", "Women", "Theater" and "Beauty in American style". Actors, partners Bening on the set, noted the outstanding gift of the actress to the reincarnation.

Typical American teenager

Actress Tora Birch on the screen embodied Jane Burnham - the daughter of the protagonist. Her character is a typical American teenager, sometimes infantile and extremely complex. And yet her character seems the most adequate among all in this movie. At the time of the beginning of filming, the girl was only 17, and the plot of the picture suggested episodes in which the Torah was to appear before the camera naked. Therefore, the parents not only gave permission for the daughter's participation in the film, but also were present during the filming, together with representatives of the special commission for the protection of child labor. Acting skills Birch did not remain invaluable, she was nominated for a better supporting role in the British Academy of Film and Television awards.

Actors of the second plan

American actress Mina Suvari is known to the audience by her roles in the films "American Pie" and "American Beauty". In the project of Sam Mendes, she played the role of a close nymphet, obsessed with her appearance. For her heroine to be ordinary - the most terrible thing in life. Quite a contradictory character.

Wes Bentley played the role of Ricky, Jane's friend, a real chameleon. The actor is known for his roles in such films as "128 beats per minute", "Four Feathers", "Ghost Rider" and "Hunger Games". Since 2014, he joined the casting of the television series "American Horror History."

Without hiding the essence of the visual component behind the splendor, Sam Mendes hoisted the narrative of the painting onto the shoulders of the actors, they all coped with the task positively. Largely due to them the film turned into a hit, hidden and unobtrusive glorifying morality, which is a rarity in the modern world film industry.