American Beauty (1999 film) as Lester and Angela get closer, finally taking the roses—and thus Carolyn—out of the shot. Lester's epiphany at the end of the film is expressed by rain and the use of red, building to a crescendo that is a deliberate contrast to the release Lester feels. The constant use of red "lulls [the audience] subliminally" into becoming used to it; consequently, it leaves the audience unprepared when Lester is shot and his blood spatters on the wall. Pennington argues that "American Beauty" defines its characters through their sexuality. Lester's attempts to relive his youth are a direct result of his
Burnham Without the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects seven MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation. Burnham Without Burnham Without is the parish in the main located to the east of Burnham-on-Sea, the Motorway/M5 and north & north east east of Highbridge in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, England. The parish includes the villages of Watchfield, Southwick and Edithmead. The developed fringes of eastern Burnham itself are also in the parish. The parish in 2011 had a population of 796. Mostly rural Burnham Without consists of drained, low-lying agricultural land between the coast at Burnham