Analyse 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 …showed first 75 words of 980 total…

…showed last 75 words of 980 total…discussing how best to train him. The camera then turns and slowly pans across the garden back on to Lester peering out of the window ,there is a shadow over the whole house which gives in a cold feel among the sunshine and new day. Lester look tided and old peeping behind the curtains as if watching from the side of a stage ready to make his entrance on to the stage which his life.