American Beauty: analyse af familiedysfunktion og karakterer

American Beauty Theme family: The two families in the film are dysfunctional families in two different ways. The main family consisting of Lester, Carolyn and Jane is a very quiet family, in that they don’t communicate with each other, and that leads to all their problems. Carolyn doesn’t listen to Lester's sexual needs. Lesters sexual needs are so big that he snaps into this kind of teenage mind-set when he sees Angela for the first time. He becomes care-free and doesn’t think about the consequences of his actions. He becomes a person Carolyn nor Jane recognizes. That leads to fights