1, theme: embodiment of the American family ethical life contradictions of black comedy, revealing the American daily life of the "crowd". It takes a typical American middle-class family as an example, and shows all kinds of "cancer" hidden in the skin of American society.
2. Synopsis:
Lester (Kevin Spacey?) is an American actor who has been working on the film for years. Spacey (Kevin Spacey?), like many middle-aged men, has encountered a variety of life problems. He works in an advertising agency with mediocre results, but his wife is better than him, a strong woman style. This ordinary man also has a teenage daughter, Jenny (Thora Birch?). Birch?Thora?Birch).
Jenny is a rebellious character who thinks it's funny that her neighbor takes nude pictures of her and doesn't care. She has a close classmate, Angela (Mena? Suvari? Mena? Suvari?), and when Lester sees the youthful Angela in the cheerleading crowd, everything changes. Lester falls into the middle of Angela's young and vibrant aura. His deadened state of mind had a burning sensation.
At the same time, his wife, too, is having an affair with another rich businessman. When Lester got the young goddess of his heart, the shot rang out.
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Characters in the movie:
1. Lester - Actor? Kevin Spacey
Lester, who has always been oppressed by his mediocre social status and gold-digging wife, is internally repressed but can't find a proper outlet. His daughter's disdain for him makes him atrophy - like a walking corpse.
The youthfulness of his daughter's classmates and the allure of her appearance revives his male ego. Whether it's her unshaven eyes or those discussions about sex among young girls, it's like a hint, a spark, that ignites his extinguished self-esteem and his life. He doesn't just want to live, he wants to live ......Ricky and Angela are both sparks that awaken his life, and their presence reminds him of his youth.
2, Jenny - actor? Thora Birch
(Lester's daughter) grew up in a repressive environment with role-misplaced parenting, and sees in her parents the ugliness of unchecked humanity.
The view of life, life, is inevitably gray. After meeting Ricky, her heavy black eye shadow is gone, and she still feels love because there is someone with her, supporting each other. For life, she is somewhat numb. Like her father, she was ignored, even by her parents. The inner sensitivity, the changes, the loneliness of having no one to care about, and having only one companion, Angela. She had been the listening ear, but who would listen to her heart.
3. Angela - Actor? Mina Suvari
Angela, the best friend of Lester's daughter and cheerleader for the varsity basketball team, uses what she thinks is "maturity" to make herself "different". She is a seductress, an immature show-off, seducing her classmate's father - for her, the lure of sensual stimulation and the proof of her self-worth and charisma. She's a poor little girl, but she's also innocent and ignorant, so she's fearlessly challenging the ethics of society.
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