American Beauty

American Beauty tells the story of a man’s mid-life crisis set in contemporary American suburbia. The character of Lester Burnham is already dead and tells the story as a flashback. Lester works in a steady job, is in a loveless marriage, and has a tense relationship with his daughter. However, he doesn’t like his job, has extreme marriage troubles with his wife, and feels depressed and hopeless. He ends up changing quite a bit, he gets sexually obsessed with his daughter’s friend Angela, decides to quit his job and get one where he can have the least possible amount of responsibility. He starts smoking a lot of marijuana, starts working out, and decides to not take any more flak from his wife. Throughout the course of the movie his marriage falls apart and his relationship with his daughter further deteriorates as his obvious desire for her best friend Angela grows.
The brain is According to Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality; personality is composed of three elements. These three elements of personality known as the id, the ego and the superego, work together to create complex human behavior. The key to a healthy personality is a balance between the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is our unconscious wants and desires, we are born controlled entirely by the id, which is why babies cry when they don’t get what they want. It drives us with urges for self gratification; it is the basis for our actions. The ego seeks to appease the id in realistic ways that will satisfy in the long term rather than in the immediate future. Most of the ego is in the conscious mind unlike the id which lies more in the unconscious then the unconscious. The superego aims to become the ideal individual based on what society dictates as such. It is what makes us feel guilty after doing something wrong and it restrains the id the best it can, we are not born with it but develop it as