I have taken a closer look :)

I remembered when TV3 kept airing it, I missed the earlier parts and only get to witness how this key character of the movie named Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), died. Haha.

I think what made me even more interested in this movie since forever, is after watching this character who goes by the name Ricky Fitts. His weird behaviour and interests are just plain cute. He videotapes the most random things ever and sees the beauty in what he films, too much beauty, that he can just cry. Bunyi gila tapi ada la betul jugak... Not to mention he even grow up in such a disfunctional family: an only child living with a super-strict, ex-military father and a very rigid, quiet & passive housewife as a mother. Aku sangat bersimpati terhadap mak dia. Muka banyak masalah dan kesedihan :(

Daddy controls everything :(

Daddy tells Ricky gays are shameful.

Lester has a wife, Carolyn (Annette Benning) and she is a real estate agent who is driven by the idea of wanting to be successful, and refuse to show her weakness. A woman who is perfectly living in denial. She thinks she has a loser as a husband and finds solace (and sexual excapades, haha), in her own real estate competition, Buddy Kane. Lester and Carolyn have a daughter, Jane; this girl is unhappy with her breasts and saves money for a boob job!

Queen control.

Trying to be the perfect mother.


Carolyn caught cheating by Lester.

I honestly salutes her and Ricky, because they work on their own to gain what they want! The difference is Ricky sells weed for people, until he can collect around US$40, 000. Gila kaya woh...

Note for everyone: Don't sell illegal shit. You might never get caught but still, gaining profit from other people's misery is not very nice :)

Okay, back to the whole review; Ricky likes Jane, and she eventually finds him interesting. Come on, who wouldn't love someone who stands by his window, just interested in what you do everyday, and films you because he thinks you're beautiful the way you are, and goes out burning the grass forming your name with the fire? Or even still interested with watching you, admiring your beauty, even when you tell him to stop watching you?

Ricky filming Jane.

Jane, on the other hand, has a friend so attractive, known as Angela Hayes, a model wannabe, who thinks she will go to the top just by sucking up and fucking famous people. Lester likes Angela, and tries to get her attention. So this is when everything unfolds.

One of Lester's fantasy about Angela XD

This movie looks shallow, but if you look closer (that's the movie's tagline), you'll definitely see the true beauty of the film. You'll understand why Lester feels like a loser and suddenly bounces back into a better person just because he tries to impress Angela, why Carolyn is so cold to her husband but nice and pretentious to everyone else, why Jane hates her parents, why Ricky's father is so hard on bringing him up, why his mother is so defenseless and why Angela adores the attention she gets from every man.

It's a movie about the phoniness in people, the fake faces, the struggle just to be themselves despite being labeled a weirdo or a rebel, the lies told just to be accepted and the pain within each one of us that we are all trying to overcome.

Anyway, I was happy for Lester; because he died feeling happy, even though he was shot at the back of his head when he least expected it, he managed to be happy at the very final second just looking at an old picture of his family when Jane was little, and happy knowing Jane is feeling loved with Ricky by her side, knowing that his wife is happy with another man, and happy that he did not do anything with Angela, realizing it is a wrong thing to do.

My favourite dialogue of this movie=
Ricky: If I leave tonight, to New York, will you come with me?
Jane: (smiles) Yes.

It is so beautiful, really.

...and great line of cast too!