The Fate of Americans 1.mp3

00:00:01 Free agency is something that Americans and humanity at large has fought wars to obtain and wars.
00:00:07 Avoid humanity has a love hate relationship with personal responsibility, but as we all know, there are some people who hate it more than others.
00:00:19 People who never want to take responsibility for their actions and people that expect everyone else to take care of their problem.
00:00:27 And then, of course, there are those who think that at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what we do, what's going to happen is just going to happen.
00:00:35 It's fate.
00:00:36 It's predestining.
00:00:37 Whatever you want to call it, it's unstoppable.
00:00:41 The individual doesn't stand a chance against the powerful forces of the universe.
00:00:45 And of course, it's easy to imagine.
00:00:47 Who would benefit from the public universally believing this, that no matter what you do?
00:00:54 Things will just happen the way they're supposed to happen, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.
00:01:00 So why try this is the kind of fatalism that was really popular in the 90s.
00:01:07 This kind of nihilistic why bother defeatist attitude that still affects a lot of Gen.
00:01:14 Xers and even some baby boomers.
00:01:15 Today, this sentiment was so popular it was the core message of the film that won the Oscar for Best Picture at the turn of the Century. In 1999, in a time before 9/11.
00:01:29 At a time before the perpetual wars we've been fighting in.
00:01:31 The Middle East.
00:01:32 Since a time before the mass adoption of the most powerful propaganda and surveillance tool of all time, the smartphone and a time before the Patriot Act that allowed the ruling class to use that technology against its own people, a film appropriately named American Beauty.
00:01:49 American Beauty was produced by Steven Spielberg's Dream Works and the Cohen Company. It was written by Alan Ball, directed by Sam Mendez, and starred the now infamously alleged gay pedophile ****** Kevin Spacey. In many ways, American Beauty is a movie about St.
00:02:07 And how leftist boomers dealt with one thing that is, in fact inevitable.
00:02:13 Getting old.
00:02:14 At least, that's the surface level storyline that the movie critics would write about, what they would leave out of their rave reviews is that this is a film about the inevitability of many things specifically.
00:02:27 Pedophilia. Infidelity.
00:02:30 Homosexuality, divorce, drug use and even murder.
00:02:35 But what else did you expect?
00:02:36 After all, it it won best Picture.
00:02:39 The film opens with a bit of misdirection which is appropriate for a film that itself is a piece of misdirection we see.
00:02:48 A young woman.
00:02:49 She is being recorded by someone we presume as her boyfriend.
00:02:53 She complains that her father is pathetically hitting on her friend.
00:02:57 And that someone should put him out of his misery, to which the man behind the camera seems to agree to do exactly that.
00:03:04 This opening is an extremely complex device with several moving pieces.
00:03:10 It accomplishes several things at once, all the while grabbing the attention.
00:03:15 Of the audience.
00:03:16 And misdirecting them with the skill of a magician.
00:03:20 The first most obvious thing that's happening is that the audience is being led to believe that whoever is behind the camera.
00:03:28 He is going to kill her father because of the voyeuristic amateur handheld angle and the first person perspective of the scene.
00:03:38 There is something else happening.
00:03:40 Films almost never use a first person perspective because it changes how people relate to the scene.
00:03:48 When an actor makes eye contact with the audience with the camera, it makes people feel uneasy because it shatters the illusion that they are.
00:03:57 Simply a fly on.
00:03:58 The wall in some alternate universe, but that instead they have now become participants.
00:04:06 In the story, that's if it's executed correctly, it could have the opposite effect.
00:04:11 If it's done poorly, cause the audience will no longer be able to suspend their disbelief and will become painfully aware that they're watching a movie.
00:04:20 In the case of American beauty, I this is, I can't think of a better example.
00:04:24 This is expertly executed.
00:04:26 Watch as the actress goes from completely ignoring the camera, ignoring the audience.
00:04:32 You're not even sure that she's aware of the camera when they shot this first part.
00:04:36 Then, when the voice from.
00:04:38 Behind the camera, which by the way, if you're in the theater, that voice would sound like it's coming from the audience.
00:04:44 When that voice suggests murdering her father.
00:04:51 How many kill them for you?
00:04:55 She slowly and very deliberately brings all of her attention.
00:04:59 All of her focus, and puts it directly on the audience through the camera lens with an intensity you can feel on a visceral level.
00:05:09 So right at the beginning.
00:05:11 In a subtle way.
00:05:13 The film makers have just simulated a situation in which many of the viewers, especially the younger viewers that are going to be closer to her age, even if it's just in a tiny, tiny, subconscious way.
00:05:28 They want her father dead.
00:05:31 And if that's not enough of a ****, **** the baby boomers in the audience watching this exact same scene.
00:05:37 Will likely have a different take away.
00:05:41 A take away that's going to be totally.
00:05:43 Lost on the.
00:05:43 Younger viewers, the fear of being old and lame and the subject of this ridicule.
00:05:49 Not cruel.
00:05:50 Disgusting to a young woman and and so disgusting that.
00:05:54 They they want.
00:05:54 To kill you.
00:05:55 We're not even a minute into the film and some of the oldest parts of the brain, the animal part of the brain.
00:06:02 That's most.
00:06:03 Susceptible to suggestion has been lit up like a Christmas tree and before your brand can process any of.
00:06:12 We go to black, we now shift to an aerial shot of any town USA and listen to the narration of Kevin Spacey's character, Lester Burnham, the man whose murder was just being discussed and likely to the surprise of many in the audience right after introducing himself, he says something that main characters.
00:06:34 Almost never say.
00:06:36 I'm 42 years.
00:06:37 Old in less than a year.
00:06:40 I'll be.
00:06:40 Dead by telling the audience how the story must inevitably end before it even begins. It changes how they're going to perceive the rest of the film Lester's fate.
00:06:52 Has already been written.
00:06:55 We know that there's that no matter what he does, no matter what decisions he makes.
00:07:00 He is going to die.
00:07:03 The future is already written for Lester and he has no control over his destiny.
00:07:10 We then go through a montage of life that's eerily similar to many of the films of that era.
00:07:17 The late 90s was the decade after the booming Wall Street.
00:07:21 It is.
00:07:22 Andthe.com Bubble was just about to burst. Companies seemed hell bent on using technology. Cubicles and efficiency experts to squeeze every last drop of productivity out of the American worker. A movie that does an excellent job of.
00:07:43 Covering this phenomenon is office space, which I highly recommend if you haven't seen.
00:07:48 It, but this was a.
00:07:50 Reality that was reflected in several movies including Fight Club and and even the Matrix.
00:07:57 Because the late 90s was a time of corporate oligarchs micromanaging their wage slaves to a degree never before seen in history, and it was taking its toll on the sanity.
00:08:13 Of the American worker.
00:08:15 As they said in office space.
00:08:17 Human beings were not meant to sit in.
00:08:20 Cubicle staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to 8 different bosses drone on about mission statements.
00:08:28 So Lester is an.
00:08:29 Unwilling participant in this system on top.
00:08:33 That his wife is cold and dissatisfied with them.
00:08:38 She is a feminist and her feminism has successfully fooled her into aspiring to be a good little taxpayer, even if that means being a terrible mother.
00:08:49 Lester lives next door to a gay couple who and.
00:08:53 And this is probably has nothing at all to do with the writer being gay.
00:08:56 I'm sure are perfect in every way, and are the only positive role models in the entire.
00:09:03 Movie The film does what Hollywood movies have been doing for decades.
00:09:08 It shamelessly attempts to humiliate straight white men and show them as inferior to the women in their lives.
00:09:14 And obviously, the gay people too.
00:09:17 So no surprises there, we'll.
00:09:19 Go ahead and move on.
00:09:20 After we're taken through as a slice of the unhappy families.
00:09:24 Miserable life, Lester.
00:09:26 The aging boomer goes to a high school basketball game to see his cheerleader daughter.
00:09:32 It's not long before he begins fantasizing about one of his daughters friends.
00:09:37 He becomes infatuated with her and behaves like, well, kind of like a straight Kevin Spacey would have acted in that situation.
00:09:47 Something tells me he didn't have to research this role too thoroughly.
00:09:51 His daughter's friend.
00:09:53 Is receptive and flirtatious, and here is where.
00:09:58 I want to interject.
00:09:59 Something I was very young.
00:10:02 When this movie first came out, and I believe I saw it at a friend's house right after it went out on on video.
00:10:07 It might have.
00:10:08 Even been on VHS, I thought.
00:10:10 This actress, Mina Savari.
00:10:12 I'm not sure if I.
00:10:13 Said that right was the.
00:10:14 Hottest girl in.
00:10:15 The world or or close to it, and honestly, I just watched the movie.
00:10:19 Because I was hoping she'd be.
00:10:22 Topless in this film.
00:10:23 Think of how many subconscious messages get planted into the minds of young people who just want to see an actress naked or watch dinosaurs fight or something like that.
00:10:36 There is so much of this movie and and many others that I watched when I was younger.
00:10:40 I'm sure and and it just went right into my brain.
00:10:43 And I didn't even.
00:10:44 Realize the subversive programming that was going.
00:10:47 On it, it's.
00:10:48 Especially unnerving thinking about this, knowing that I wasn't exactly some mindless MPC like.
00:10:54 Even back then.
00:10:55 I was just young and stupid.
00:10:57 So the power that these people have in shaping our culture and politics, just because they have access to someone that everyone wants to see naked or they have the the budget to make, you know, realistic sort of dinosaurs fighting or something like that, the power that gives them in shaping our culture and.
00:11:16 Politics it cannot be overstated.
00:11:19 At any rate, back to the story.
00:11:21 So we now actually meet the man that was behind the camera in the in the movie intro, the audience is brought back into the first person perspective.
00:11:32 As we watch an awkwardly long shot of Lester's daughter, Jane, the girl from the intro to the movie, walking up the path to the front of her.
00:11:42 House and once again, she makes eye contact with the audience.
00:11:48 This time the audience is spared playing the part of the camera.
00:11:53 When her neighbor Ricky fits formally becomes part of the story by coming out of the shadows, Jane seems to dislike him immediately for being creepy.
00:12:05 But of course secretly enjoys the attention.
00:12:09 Speaking of being creepy, the next morning, Lester.
00:12:13 Her father sneaks into his daughter's room while she is taking a shower and calls up her hot friend, only to hang up on her like a 12 year.
00:12:23 And it and it really is. He's he's reverting back into a juvenile. The so-called midlife crisis, which which seemed to be this new phenomenon that happened when, as baby boomers began to get old. I really don't think this so-called midlife crisis really affected.
00:12:42 Other generations quite as thoroughly.
00:12:44 It's not entirely inaccurate.
00:12:45 I am friends with creepy baby Boomer parents that would show up especially.
00:12:50 After a divorce.
00:12:51 To our parties and they would hit on well, young girls.
00:12:55 It was like 1.
00:12:56 Day they woke up and realized they were.
00:12:58 Adults and in an.
00:12:59 Act of what they would characterize as defiance.
00:13:01 But I would characterize as denial.
00:13:04 They would just try to live as if the the last 20 years hadn't happened.
00:13:08 I don't think this film was promoting this behavior by accurately depicting it.
00:13:15 I do think it was promoting this behavior by actively excusing it.
00:13:20 The complete meltdown that both Lester and his wife end up having comes with the litany.
00:13:25 Of of excuses.
00:13:27 We now meet.
00:13:28 Ricky Fitts family.
00:13:29 Ricky Fitz is the weirdo neighbor with the camera next door. His father is Hollywood's stereotype of a conservative militant controlling angry homophobic.
00:13:43 His mother acts as if she's either heavily medicated to deal with the stress of being married to such a tyrant, or is suffering from some extreme case of PTSD unique to wives of of fascists.
00:13:58 The perfect gay couple welcomes them to the neighborhood with a basket of.
00:14:02 Some sort.
00:14:03 And Mr.
00:14:04 Fitz is immediately uncomfortable about having gay neighbors.
00:14:09 He also seems weirdly preoccupied with his son becoming gay, which has always been this leftist trope.
00:14:19 They would often accuse those who opposed normalizing.
00:14:23 Homosexuality as being secretly homosexual themselves.
00:14:28 It's always been projection with the left every single time.
00:14:32 And as we all know, this behavior is definitely not limited to Hollywood screenwriters.
00:14:38 Next, Ricky sees Janie at school and impresses her with his confidence.
00:14:43 He might be a complete weirdo psycho that films.
00:14:46 Her from the.
00:14:46 Shadows next door, but he has confidence and chicks dig confidence.
00:14:52 Next, Ricky sees Jane's father at some networking event that his wife has dragged him to.
00:14:57 So Lester reverts even further into a juvenile, sneaks behind the building with Ricky, and smoked some pot while his wife, driven by hypergamy, is shamelessly hitting on a colleague of hers.
00:15:12 Lester's midlife crisis really goes into high gear, and he begins to frequently fantasize about his daughter's.
00:15:20 A hot friend and when his wife catches him ************, they have a fit.
00:15:25 It's odd to me, but then again, maybe not that odd that the writers would choose Lester's lust for an underage girl as the catalyst for, for lack of a better term, for him growing a pair and standing.
00:15:40 Up to his.
00:15:40 Wife and and being a real man as.
00:15:43 If his desire.
00:15:44 For this underage girl.
00:15:47 And his behavior that's reverting back into a juvenile is what's making him a real man.
00:15:53 It's literally an inversion of the truth.
00:15:56 He's acting like a child and justifying his behavior and ignoring the last 20 years of his life because they didn't turn out exactly as he had hoped, and he will now, as as many of my friends parents did in real life.
00:16:09 By the way, try to undo 2 decades of perceived failure by pretending they just didn't happen.
00:16:17 Lester even goes so far as as quitting his job and getting a job at a fast food joint.
00:16:24 The job that he had as a teenager.
00:16:26 While his success driven wife is having carbon opposite meltdown.
00:16:31 And begins this hypergamous affair with the successful colleague from the party now.
00:16:38 While all this is going on, Jane seems to be not even an afterthought, completely ignored by both of her parents because.
00:16:45 Selfishly focusing on themselves.
00:16:49 Is so vital to their existence, they must explore these whims.
00:16:54 They are having, even if it means ignoring their responsibility as parents completely something else.
00:17:01 By the way, I saw many of my friends parents do in, in real life.
00:17:05 The funny thing is, the whole time the film makers are excusing this.
00:17:10 Reprehensible behavior.
00:17:12 They attack the conservative family.
00:17:15 With the stay at home Mom, I mean, sure, she's she's there physically, but she's so emotionally and maybe even physically abused by the evil husband that she may as well not be.
00:17:28 And the father isn't just a a violent, abusive homophobe, but wait for it.
00:17:33 He's a a literal Nazi.
00:17:37 The left has been calling everyone to the right of Karl Marx, a Nazi for as long as I've been alive and in the 90s, they must have been convinced that we all had secret Nazi rooms, which, if you're familiar with my channel, is something we've seen in other movies.
00:17:52 One of the more famous scenes of this movie is when Ricky and Jane are watching a video.
00:17:58 That Ricky shot of a plastic bag.
00:18:01 Blowing around in the wind.
00:18:04 It is here.
00:18:05 That the film makers reinforce yet again the idea that we are all just products of circumstance.
00:18:15 We are all.
00:18:16 Just swept up by powerful forces around us, there is nothing we can really do.
00:18:22 Lester has has no control over his.
00:18:26 Lust for underage girls and his midlife crisis was just an inevitable part of his story.
00:18:34 His wife was destined to feel unfulfilled until she.
00:18:39 Experience the embrace of this other successful man who understood her ambition.
00:18:46 Ricky and and Jane and the rest of them are all just plastic bags.
00:18:53 Caught in the wind.
00:18:55 Without direction or power over their own fate.
00:19:01 And that is exactly how the last day of Lester's life plays out once again with narration, the audience is told this is the last day of Lesters life.
00:19:14 It's already written in stone.
00:19:17 There's no surprises.
00:19:18 Nothing Lester can.
00:19:19 Do can get him out of dying.
00:19:22 And on this day, there's a string of fateful events setting off chain reactions, including Lester's wife accidentally going through the drive through where Lester now has a job. Something else that implies that there's fate and coincidence, and just a larger force at work. And there's.
00:19:43 Fair enough.
00:19:44 Thing we can do to stop it now. I'm going to skip over some of them in the shot and some of the minor sub plus the move things along. But Lester's bad day drives him to buy marijuana from the guy having sex with his daughter and Ricky's dad because he's a Nazi lunatic.
00:20:04 Mistakenly thinks that his son.
00:20:08 Is giving Lester a ******* and and being a homophobic psychopath.
00:20:13 That he is.
00:20:14 He snaps and beats the **** out.
00:20:16 Of his son Ricky.
00:20:18 Meanwhile, Lester's wife, who bought a gun after she first cheated on Lester and went to a gun range and of.
00:20:26 Course has been.
00:20:28 Murderously mad with power ever since.
00:20:31 Because, you know, again, that's.
00:20:32 What happens when?
00:20:33 You get a gun.
00:20:34 That's the left projecting again.
00:20:35 By the way, when that when they get a gun, that is how they feel.
00:20:40 She is now psyching herself up with motivational speaker tapes to get up the nerve to kill Lester.
00:20:47 Meanwhile, Ricky convinces Jane to run away with him.
00:20:50 Jane's hot friend objects and again defied me.
00:20:54 Calls her a basic *****.
00:20:55 Now that's when the most inexplicable.
00:21:01 In the entire movie happens now. When I first saw this movie back in in 2000 or or or whatever it was that I actually saw it, it seemed so out of place and unbelievable that I honestly I thought they just didn't know how to end the movie. So they just wrote that in. But that was before I understood.
00:21:21 The psychology of the left, Ricky's dad shows up to Lester's garage.
00:21:28 Unannounced and crying.
00:21:31 And and Lester, who has no idea at all, that there's been a fight or anything, doesn't have any idea. Anything's going on at all. Just tries to comfort him. And then, seemingly out of nowhere.
00:21:45 Ricky's dad, the Nazi, homophobic.
00:21:53 Kisses Lester.
00:21:55 He can no longer hold back his burning homosexual desires that make him such an *******.
00:22:01 And and in a moment of weakness, it slips out.
00:22:06 See, this is how the left thinks.
00:22:09 You see it over.
00:22:09 And over and.
00:22:10 Over again all.
00:22:10 The men that say that they're, they're feminists.
00:22:14 On the left end up being the biggest abusers.
00:22:18 That is how the left operates.
00:22:20 They overcompensate to hide whatever it is that they feel guilty about.
00:22:25 And they project this behavior.
00:22:28 On to other people, they assume that that's how other people think too, because fundamentally, you gotta remember, leftists believe that everyone's basically the same.
00:22:39 So if there's something true about the way your brain works, then clearly that's the way everyone else's brain works, too. It's it's kind of like honest people.
00:22:48 You are really gullible, are really easy to fool.
00:22:52 Because they just assumed.
00:22:53 I mean, they're honest and they just assume everyone else is as honest.
00:22:57 As they are.
00:22:58 But this this projection is really fundamentally a huge part of leftist psychology, and the sooner you figure that out, the the the quicker you'll understand the leftist mind.
00:23:11 They think that the only reason.
00:23:14 This guy would oppose homosexual lifestyles is if he was overcompensating for his own latent homosexuality.
00:23:25 It wasn't just expressed in this film, by the way, either it this was a common thing to accuse people who were uncomfortable around gay people.
00:23:34 Being secretly gay themselves, you will see this archetype in several movies and TV shows in this era when they were really pushing to normalize homosexuality.
00:23:45 That was their go to stereotype of someone who didn't want to normalize homosexuality.
00:23:50 It was always because they were secretly gay themselves.
00:23:55 So at any rate, now Lester is confused, but he doesn't freak out.
00:24:00 He lets the the secretly gay Nazi down easy.
00:24:06 And disappointed the secretly gay Nah.
00:24:11 Wanders back off into the rain.
00:24:14 Somehow this doesn't bother Lester that much.
00:24:16 He goes inside and he finds the object of his underage desires alone in the dark.
00:24:25 He quickly moves in and seduces her.
00:24:28 He's about to have sex with her.
00:24:31 When she mentions.
00:24:33 That she's a virgin.
00:24:36 Apparently this is what snaps Lester out of his midlife crisis.
00:24:41 He has a rare moment.
00:24:44 Of self reflection, he becomes suddenly aware of the vast difference in age and in meaning that this sexual encounter will have and he changes his mind.
00:24:55 He has an epiphany.
00:24:56 He seems to realize how.
00:24:57 Lucky he was.
00:24:58 This entire time to have a wife and a family for the first time in the movie, he actually seems.
00:25:05 Happy, but then?
00:25:08 Because we're all just plastic bags.
00:25:11 Flying around in the wind.
00:25:14 And what we think can.
00:25:15 Do makes no difference at all.
00:25:19 Lester, as they told you in the beginning of the film.
00:25:24 Is shot in the back of the.
00:25:25 Head and dies.
00:25:28 Not shot by his wife, mind you, who was driving home to do a man.
00:25:33 But of course, by the secretly gay, homophobic Nazi because, well, you know Nazis.
00:25:41 Well, they just do that ****.
00:25:44 And that's pretty much the end.
00:25:46 I think the audience is treated to some vignettes of how the people in Lester's life react to his death and and there is a little bit of narration from Lester himself, who, who says he's not angry.
00:25:58 About being killed that.
00:25:59 You should just stop trying to obtain perfection or beauty.
00:26:05 And just relax and let life happen to you.
00:26:08 Because in the end, it doesn't matter what you do anyway, and that is when we get the real meaning of the title.
00:26:16 The American beauty isn't lesters underage sex fantasy.
00:26:21 It's the American dream.
00:26:23 It's different things.
00:26:25 Different people in the film and in life, and it's the people in the.
00:26:29 I've truly knew just how trivial they were, how insignificant they were.
00:26:36 They would find just as much enjoyment in watching a plastic bag float around in the wind as they would trying to do something meaningful and important with their lives.
00:26:48 The moral of this story is clear.
00:26:50 Don't try.
00:26:53 Don't try to do anything that's hard.
00:26:55 There is beauty in just going with the flow with mediocrity and what you call beauty and your ambition and your dreams.
00:27:05 Those are just fools.
00:27:06 Errands, unless of course, you're the gay couple.
00:27:10 He is a tax attorney and he's an anesthesiologist.
00:27:14 Than of by all means anything is possible, but no, seriously stop trying.
00:27:19 Just check out of life work at a burger joint and in the end it doesn't really matter because the individual doesn't stand a chance against the forces of the universe.
00:27:29 We all die anyway.
00:27:33 So why try?
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