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Title: AMERICAN BEAUTY
Words: 971
Superlatively well-made, Sam Mendes' "American Beauty" finally comes out and says, once and for all, what has needed to be said for a long, long time: that the so-called American Dream is really an ugly American Nightmare. Symbolises
True, this is not exactly a revelation. Movies have tackled this theme, and with some dexterity, for years. Mike Nichols did it in "The Graduate" in 1967; Ang Lee and Todd Solondz had their respective says in "The Ice Storm" (1997) and "Happiness" (1998), and earlier this year Alexander Payne delivered the clever "Election." So we're on familiar turf with this latest indictment of suburbia, its mania for magazine-ad appearances and the lousy values resorted to in order to attain that kind of dubious perfection.
We've seen it all before, but not with s ...
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