[Still from American Beauty]
Sam Mendes's "American Beauty" is a film that always leaves me in awe. Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening give captivating performances, depicting character's that speak of their generation's lost motives and obsession with climbing the corporate ladders and reaching some illusive pentacle of success in the 90's Middle Class society.
The still above from "American Beauty" shows the main character, Lester Burnham at work in an advertising firm in middle America. You see a sticker on his cubicle wall that reads, "look closer"-a Kubrick-esque motif instructing the audience to indeed take a closer look. "Looking Closer" is in essence the film's over all message, which suggests that people in this day and age are either not paying attention to what they see or are projecting their own ideas and definitions onto the world around us. In doing so, we completely misinterpret truths in matters and fail to experience the beauty in the world around us.
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