American Beauty

American Beauty  In American Beauty, 1999, enjoin by Sam Mendes, we are confronted with the permeating images that have consumed mainstream American life. Mendes exploits these images as social organisations that we created around ourselves as a means of privacy our true selves. Mendes is able to implicate us in the grammatical construction and make us active viewers by exploiting our voyeuristic nature. In American Beauty Mendes uses the voyeuristic tendencies of the spectator to discover the permeating constructed images.

Mendes, through the use of narration, the mise en scene and cinematic techniques implicates the spectator in to using their voyeuristic tendencies to deconstruct the images in order to reveal the true image. From the start of the film the construction of images is evident. American Beauty begins with the obvious constructed shot, shown through the use of a video camera, of a young teenage girl. The narration reveals that she wants her breed dea...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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