Beautiful movie. I think mena suvaris character was more touching that anyones however and I related the most too somehow.
This movie made me feel dirty. I didn't like the characters either so that just about kills it for me every time.
Excellent film. Haven't seen it in a while, but I do recall some thought-provoking moments about life, etc... Plus, I love when he gets on some sort of personal mission of self-transformation & starts smoking pot & exercising. Joint in mouth, weights in hands...excellent.
whenever i watch this movie.. it changes me just a little bit. cliche sounding yes. but it's true. also everytime i see this.. i stay up all night to watch the sun rise on my roof. one of the best movies ever made for so many reasons. every detail was perfect.
i think the movie is awesome. actors contributed to that, and the dialogs were great. ... Carolyn Burnham: Uh, whose car is that out front? Lester Burnham: Mine. 1970 Pontiac Firebird. The car I've always wanted and now I have it. I rule!
Absoltuley right, it symbolizes everything Lester once had and now is only a distant memory and now that he realizes it he tries to restore that happiness through the cheerleader, his sports car, smoking pot, listening to classic rock, weight lifting, getting a fast food job "with the least possible ammount of responsibility". Basically he goes through a somewhat extreme mid life crisis. It's also a commentary on the 'American Dream'. Lester has a wife, a daughter, a nice house with a red front door and white picket fence in a nice neighborhood, and a good paying job. So Lester has it all right, he should be a happy man right? Thats where I think the door to his house is important (if you notice the first time he meets ricky at the bar, ricky says something like 'you live in the house next to me with the red door, right'.) Basically I think the red door is a play off the color red found in the rest of the movie, it represents Lester's 'American Dream' and how this life should make him happy, but it doesn't. So that's when he escapes to the garage to smoke and lift. There are the dinner scenes with the long table, wife at one end husband at the other, child in the middle, centerpiece, silerware, dinner music, everybody talking about 'their day', avoiding uncomfartable conversation and sugarcoating their lives. A few scenes Lester opposes this concept, specifically when he throws the plate against the wall. Then there is the couch scene which is one of my favorites because it so true, where Lester and his wife find a very rare moment to be romantic with each other and all she is worried about his him spilling his beer on the 'sofa'. It shows how far apart they're thinking and ideals have become. She keeps calling it a sofa and all he can say is "it's just a couch". If anybody's seen fight club they hit on the same idea. People collect and surround themselves with all these possessions and materialities and eventually their possessions own them and run their lives. Alright I could probably go on and on but I think I've written enough that people won't want to read the whole thing as it is.
One of my all time favorite films, for sure... one of the best films of the 90's and the most deserving best picture winner of the last decade, by far. "Would somebody pass the FUCKING ASPARAGUS?" "I'm the best piece of ass in three states" "Fuck me, your majesty!" "I am looking for the least responsibility possible"
