Just saw American Beauty. I've often explored the relationship of art and life, which imitates which, should entertainment be what is reality or what reality should be or what we want reality to be. This movie may be all three. For some a very real picture of life. Suburbia. 20 years of life passes you by, without knowing it. Normalcy, ordinary world. That is what people live. And then there's the change. Not so ordinary. Really. Unless there's so many people out there doing the same thing. But there aren't. So that makes one special. Really. Within and outside of the same world, at the same time. That is beauty in and of itself. And the most beautiful thing filmed, and the woman who laughed at this scene in the theater can, well, do something else, is really beautiful. Really, truely, beautiful. It's a good movie. Well done. Made me feel, well, made me feel. Pictures of myself I guess.