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Family Values
Title: Family Values
Category: Entertainment / Movies & Film
Details: Words: 1100 | Pages: 4.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Family Values
In viewing American Beauty, I feel the film confirms that family values do not
resemble the “traditional family” of yesterday.
Firstly, in the film, we can see that each of the families involved are dysfunctional.
Lester, (the father) is obviously suffering from a mid-life crisis and sees that his
marriage is failing. He tries to communicate with his daughter (Jane), who has already
made her decision that her family is in jeopardy. Jane is probably …showed first 75 words of 1100 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1100 total…A wife and husband
give up their sexual freedom, their financial freedom, their right to “pursue happiness”
entirely on their own terms the moment they leave the altar. No matter what may come
of the marriage, they have tied their identities and fates together. Through the act of
having children, they seal them. Marriage is about life and death, blood and sacrifice, and
about this generation and the next, and one’s connection to eternity.
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