Communication Theories within American Beauty The movie American Beauty is about a family who is coming apart at the seams. It uses many of the theories that we have touched on in this class but mostly the Interactional View. This theory is more prevalent then others because the core principle...

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After Jane goes to the kitchen, Lester makes the comment to his wife about Jane, "you treat her like an employee." ... The scene resembles a teenage boy looking at a beautiful woman, not a grown, married man looking at a teenage girl. ...

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During one of the opening scenes of American Beauty, "horny geek-boy" Lester Burnham says of his perfectly detailed and structured wife, "See how her clogs match the colour of her garden clippers? ... As he sits at the kitchen table, a luminous glow cast over his face from the black & white photo of his smiling family, a gun slowly appears behind his head. ...

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