Analysis of American Beauty

I have chosen to do this piece of film because I feel the director (Sam Mendes) takes a typical worn out story of a forty something year old man waking up and realising that life has not turned out the way he planned and follows him as he sets around trying to change it.
I think this film has heart and it makes you care about the man played by Kevin spacey.
American Beauty opens with a girl being filmed as she begins to talk about her misguided father. The shot is very grainy and the sound isn up to a great deal, I would think that the camcorder had had a grey fitter on it to add to the gloomy feel of the shot .The lighting is also very dim and grainy, it has an overall feeling of that of teenage angst. …