The character lester burnham from the film american beauty is shown to viewers as trapped in his own life, it shows lester burnham and unhappy, depressed middle aged man with little power over his life and relationships. Lester burnham is represented through the begining of the film via his non exsistant relationship with his wife, it becomes apparent that Lester doesnt wear the trousers in the relationship, and actually rides in the back on the way to work while his wife drives and daughter sits in the front, this tells us he doesnt take on the typical man of the house role, while his wife controls everything, He is also shown through the weak relationship and lack of communication with his daughter showing that although they have the money and a really nice house the families relationships arent as strong.
Lester burnham is shown as the weaker in the family we can tell this by the camera angle used in the begining of the film for example the camera is quite often pointing down on Lester showing a lack of authority, and in term of levels his wife is always a step above him which represents a shift of power.
Lester Burnham in the begining of american beauty is frequently shown as trapped, for example it shows him in a small boxy office in a dead end job. Lester burnham is shown lusting after his teenage daughters friend and when put in a school situation is represented almost as a teenage boy by the way he is slouching and daydreaming about this girl, He is narrating the film which means we get the story from his point of view and are shown his side to his life, and from this we can tell he finds his own life extremely dull and perhaps even lonely.Throughout this begining of the film we can tell Lester Burnham is trapped in his own dull and repeated life but shows behaviour of going through a possible mid life crisis.
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