The film "American Beauty" is about a guy who wants to celebrate his life. Therefore he tries to get more influence in his comunity. The actors are very well chosen for this topic so that the film shows a problem of our society in a very social critical way. This problem is the boring lifestyle (sleep-eat-work-eat-sleep) many people live today. The main caracter Lester tries to break out of this trod and it's very interesting to see how he does it. Sometimes the film has a boring action.