In Reply to: Re: American Tragedy? Indeed... posted by Dmitry on May 21, 2001 at 17:12:19:
Though I don't exactly understand "poshlyi", I thought much of American Beauty vulgar- coarse and unrefined- but isn't that the point ie exactly how much "beauty" is there in a modern suburban environment?I'd go a bit further- the "resolution" of the film with a homicide, especially a shooting, is vulgar. The portrayal of women in the film was vulgar. The portrayal of a suburban man's fears- the unfaithful wife- the detached children- the lack of fulfilment in work-the psycho neighbour, were all vulgar.
So there was some nice photography- ok, for some mainstream audiences this may have been wonderful, but if I ever had an epiphany and gave up work- and the best I could come up with was to regain my youth, lust after some girl and buy a muscle car- I'd say that was vulgar.
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- I disagree - john dem 17:29:41 05/21/01 (2)
- Re: I disagree - Dmitry 18:26:57 05/21/01 (1)
- Ok - I agree - john dem 18:35:37 05/21/01 (0)