American Beauty

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American Beauty is narrated by Lester from beyond the grave; he's detached and ironic as he tells us about his impending downfall, and nobody is better at this detachment than Kevin Spacey. It fits him perfectly -- he has always seemed like a man who knows something you don't but is keeping it to himself, for his own private amusement. Here, though, he adds an almost Buddhist contentment: being detached from things that don't matter isn't so bad, and Lester's life has not mattered in a very long time. In death, he sees the sad comedy in everything he'd thought so important; the irony is that he dies soon after his new contentment.[1]

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