When I saw this movie,I thought "Wow! This is one of Hollywood's best dips into realism!" I loved the grim reality in the novels Crime and Punishment and Madame Bovary, and this movie really hit the spot! The mother in the movie is a latter-day Bovary, caught up in totally selfish desires, oblivious to her family's needs. The protagonist, the father, is also similar; his selfishness is his tragic flaw and, like Bovary, suffers for this. This movie twisted the hokiness of Leave it to Beaver life, ripping off that happy, sappy, Kum-bay-ya, life, and showing what our decade's society has produced. If ever a movie exemplified the greed and corruption of the the 1990s, this movie is its banner. This would be the best movie I've seen--that is--until Roger and Me. That movie rules!
Review of American Beauty
