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Can't Resist - I thought American Beauty was Brilliant

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Never mind oscars and box-office - those don't count with me (nor my film buff wife).

We both like movies - (films) that are also literature. AB qualifies.

I checked some of the earilier posts, and found that Victor was viscerally offened by it (visceral - my word, not his).

He cited a Russian word which loosely and inadequately translates as "poor taste".

Interesting - to me anyway - because I thought the film was extremely sure-footed, absent of the usual calculated compromises and gratutitous stupidities and manipulations that infect most Hollywood fare. It had feel of a single sure hand - that of an auteur. No wrong steps, no false moments. It really worked on second viewing for me too.

If Victor cares, I wonder if his objections have become more concrete sincc his last comments?

What was also interesting to me was that so many of the comments I read about AB (not, I admit, from any reviewers of quality) caught only the surface of the film.

FWIW - I think Six Feet Under is brilliant too - and Golden Globes don't count, either.


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Topic - Can't Resist - I thought American Beauty was Brilliant - Jim Susky 23:10:02 02/04/02 (15)


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