Bubi

Beautiful review, you captured the essence of the film.

I haven't seen the movie, but I don't like it.

Beautiful, I liked it.

In Pulp Fiction, there’s the story of the two goons who rob the fast food joint, there’s the one about the two hitmen who need to retrieve the briefcase, there’s the story of the boxer who tries to double-cross the boss (and also about his watch), there’s the relationship between Travolta and the boss's wife, and there’s the one about the sadistic perverts who sodomize the boss. So many episodes that are intertwined with one another. Reservoir Dogs only deals with one robbery, how it was planned, and how it ends.

Thinking about it, there's some cleverness at play, and even the repressed gay marine with his whole house and family seems to be portrayed a bit over the top.

Lester gives up on his erotic dream, discovering that the nymphet haunting his imagination was, after all, a good girl. But what if she hadn’t been? In my review of Lolita, by Kubrick, I wrote: Why did the aging Humbert Humbert fall for a young girl to the point of marrying her mother just to be close to her? The answer can only be private and personal, because a love bond of this nature, then as now, is not accepted in our culture......... Private and personal because I am convinced that there are many more men of Lester's age who are attracted to young girls than one might think. I believe that if he had gone to bed with her, the director would have overloaded the film, too much at stake; the subjects he tackles are more than enough to paint a painful picture of American society.

In my opinion, American Beauty is not overrated; Sam Mendes created a bitter satire with a good sense of humor about the American Way of Life.

The man who lacks the courage to be himself, who deprives himself of his identity to assume that of others... A difficult theme to address, (not for nothing, as uxo says, it took him 2 years to write it) Allen chose a method that obviously seemed the most right to him, but he could have also taken other paths; it’s not my favorite film of his, rather Crimes and Misdemeanors. In any case, WOODY is beyond discussion because he is great.

I looked online, in the final scene it seems to have been inspired by City on Fire by Ringo Lam, a situation known as a Mexican standoff, which is a term from American slang indicating a scenario where two or more (usually three) people have each other at gunpoint, so that no one can attack their opponent without being attacked in return.

Dear Bartleboom, of course there is no controversy. As much as I can, I try to comment on the film as succinctly as possible; I mainly write for those who haven't seen the film, trying to spark their interest. Look at the often-cited Mereghetti—he makes you understand the essence of the film in twenty lines. Well, he is a professional and writes like a god, and I am certainly not even remotely at his level.