I thought the translation of "American Beauty" was not accurate. Its gorgeous posters made me think it was the story of an American woman until I saw the film.

The English name of the film is "American Beauty", and beauty is a noun form of beauty. I think the meaning of this word in this topic is more appropriate than the translated "beauty". However, considering that beauty is more poetic in English than in Chinese, and there is no proper name for beauty in Chinese, it is obviously difficult to translate "America is moving" or "America is beautiful" into "beauty".

Who doesn't love beauty? The beauty in every corner of life is always enviable, but if the beauty in your sight will eventually dissipate, or the beauty you yearn for is just an illusion, then everything is just an illusion born of your fantasy.

So can the beauty you are about to embrace at this moment really be called beauty?

Or after all the good things in your life are torn to pieces, is there only a dark night curtain left in your life?

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"I will die within a year."

The male actor Lester confessed so much from the beginning, which was doomed to be a tragedy. The light music that filled the whole movie was like a mocking lament.

Lester and his wife Caroline are only husband and wife, but they are not husband and wife. They are on the edge of the company and are about to be dismissed. Although they are dressed in formal clothes, it is hard to hide that they have accomplished nothing.

And the so-called beauty seems to have disappeared.

Soon, however, beautiful women appeared. Lester fell in love with the body of his daughter Jane's friend Angela and longed to have sex with her. Cried baby Caroline, a seemingly powerful woman, also found a wonderful relationship. As for Jane, she met a freak like her, Ricky.

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There is a suspense in the whole movie, which is why Lester died and who killed him. At the beginning of the film, the director put on a video recorder. Jane said that she didn't like her father who showed off when he saw women. She said to the person who filmed the VCR, can you help me kill Lester?

So I had the first suspense.

With the development of the plot, it will soon be known that the person shooting the VCR is Jane's eccentric boyfriend Ricky, but Ricky says he doesn't want to buy a murderer.

Caroline happened to fall in love with shooting. As Hemingway said, when a bullet appears in a literary work, it must be fired for a reason.

So Caroline was the real killer?

In the end, Caroline walked to Leicester with a gun, but unexpectedly, the real gunman was Colonel Fitz, a gay neighbor who just hugged Leicester in tears.

This suspense is not deliberately set, after all, this movie is not a crime movie. Suspense is hidden in the timeline of the whole movie, floating and uncertain.

Just like the fate of everyone in the movie, ups and downs.

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In one episode of the film, Lester almost wanted to sleep with Angela for the whole movie. To this end, he went to the gym and he began to live like a man. He is no longer as timid as before, but cocky, even frantically firing his company and extorting compensation from them.

Finally, Angela longed for recognition and agreed to sleep with Lester.

Angela's face is especially beautiful when the moonlight is shallow. Lester hungrily shed all Angela's clothes, but Angela told Lester that she was a virgin.

Lester held Angela in his arms to comfort her after silence, but didn't sleep with her again.

It is puzzling that there is no choice to go to bed.

But for Lester, no matter the conversation he overheard between Angela and Jane or Angela's character, in his countless fantasies, Angela was a slut who would sleep with everyone, but at that time, the moonlight was probably too cold, and Angela whispered that she was a virgin and too clean, which was far from his endless desire.

He was shocked by the beauty of Angela at that moment, which was a sacred and inviolable purity. So at that moment, there seemed to be a line between Lester and Angela. Lester chose to hug her instead of tearing up the beauty.

It was also at that moment that Lester embraced the true beauty of his life.

This should be the essence of life.

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Only in the end, the so-called beautiful illusion has long since disappeared, and the haze has covered all the superficial glitz, or the dazzling or moving light has dissipated. The colonel hates homosexuality because he is gay. Caroline, a strong woman who said "Don't be weak", still cries in front of the weak, saying that Angela, who has slept with countless men, is a virgin. Lester, who seemed to be unfaithful to love at first, gave in to beauty.

Only two freaks, Jane and Ricky, embraced warmly and imagined the future of escape.

Everyone's life in the film seems to have ups and downs, and everyone seems to have escaped from their former selves and ushered in a new self, but in the end, everyone is still their original selves without any change or improvement.

It's like an absurd play.

So why, how can this be the beauty that only belongs to the United States?

The first monologue was clearly "I'm dying", but Lester also saw his light.

Just like the plastic bag that Ricky took, it was blown by the wind and floated in the air, rising and falling. You and I are dancing silently in the flustered wind, but we can't find the direction. In the end, we just wandered in the wind. I was swallowed up by life, I became a silent mute, and I became a silent body.

But you can't, you can't say I can't dance, you can't say I haven't seen a lighthouse.

I used to shine and live, and that was mine alone.

Beautiful.