美国丽人完成版.docVIP

The Understanding of Beauty on American Beauty Abstract: American Beauty was the biggest winner of the 1999 Awards of the Movie Academy of America. It is the engagement with a host of controversial contemporary issues concerning the concept of masculinity in a post-feminist and post-industrial society. This paper tries to analyze “beauty” in the film. With the analysis of the material selection, the structure, the cinematography, and the symbol in it, this paper tries to discover the beauty in the movie. The movie stems from the most noble and honorable motives, which attempt to fulfill the ancient dictum that fiction should instruct as well as entertain, and which also help us to recognize a social issue that we might otherwise overlook. American Beauty shows much more than we can imagine. By learning from it, we know how to seek and appreciate the beauty of the life besides the drama.Key Words: American Beauty; understanding of beauty; crisis 《美国丽人》中关于美的理解 摘要：Introduction There are many kinds of beauties in our daily life. Beauty is the first burgeon form the willows in spring ; beauty is the melodious croaks in summer; beauty is the golden rice field in autumn ;beauty is the white snow in winter.just like the famous French sculptor Augeuste Rodin said “Everything has its beauty but not every sees it” However The understanding of the beauty everyone has his own ideas.some of them realize the true meaning of the beauty.Unfortunately,some of the go astray.In this film express different people hold the different views about beauty. 2. Plot Analysis about the Movie American beauty tells the story of Lester, a middle-aged man who lives a sedated life with his family in American suburbia. One day, Lester is pressured by his wife Carolyn to attend a performance at their daughters local school. When watching the performance, Lester is mesmerized by his daughter’s best friend Angela. Lester’s meeting with Angela awakens in him a vitality he has not known for many year