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Jun 14 05:13 UTC 2004

I think Lester Burnham is destined to become an
iconic American character, one with a life well
beyond the film that spawned him, says Flick
Filosopher. The Lester that Amercian Beauty
offers us at first is anything but inspirational --
in fact, he may be one of the most unlikable
protagonists to hit the screen in a while, continues
Flick. Lester is a gigantic loser, sleepwalking
through life, through his mind-numbing job as a
magazine writer, through his distant rlationships
with his materialistic wife and confudsed daughter.
We suspect that maybe he'll drink himself to death
or have a heart attack or kill huimself.

This is a critic about American Beauty which was
written by a such Flick. The continuation of that
great critic can be read at:
http://www.flickfilosopher.com/flickfilos/archive/4q99/americanbeauty.html