Hello everyone, I am Qingfeng but turn the book.
People are middle-aged, life is like a pool of stagnant water, everything is tasteless, so that you can't be interested. A bright red rose suddenly appears in your eyes. It is a stark contrast to the world and makes your life colorful. But there is a great price to pay to pick this red rose, are you willing?
Today I will tell you a story about the mid-life crisis - "American Beauty".
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The male protagonist of the story, Lester, is a middle-aged man over forty years old, he has a house, a wife and children, and it seems to outsiders that the family should be very happy. But only he knew that he had a pretty good time.
Early in the morning, her wife Caroline was honking the horn outside the house, and her daughter Jenny reluctantly went out, but was complained by her mother about dressing up rustically.
Lester also hurried out, and his wife urged him to hurry up, but the more he urged, the more chaotic, Lester scattered the documents of the briefcase, and his wife and daughter felt that he was a failure.
Sadly, he himself thinks so, and his life is becoming more and more lifeless.
He decided to change, but as soon as he arrived at the company, he was called to the office by his boss.
The boss said that the company was now cutting expenses, and Lester understood that the company wanted to fire him.
Now he does not want to be a lamb who has been arbitrarily slaughtered, and he pretends to be angry, loudly denouncing the scandal of the company's editor-in-chief stealing Gong money, strongly condemning them for squandering the company's assets, and now he wants to fire employees and reduce expenses in turn.
His boss was intimidated by him, and in order to keep him from spreading the company scandal, he pretended that he just wanted to ask him to write a report and talk about his contribution to the company.
In the evening, the family sat at the table to eat, the three of them did not say a word, the atmosphere was quite depressing, and finally the daughter Jenny Ren could not stop, she complained to her mother that the music was too ugly, but the mother did not pay attention to her opinion.
When their daughters were young, they talked about everything, why did they become like this now?
After the meal, Lester wanted to ease the relationship between father and daughter, but his poor communication and his daughter's youthful rebellion made the conversation unhappy.
Lester's wife, Caroline, is actually very tired, she is a real estate agent, in order to sell the house, she cleans her own hands, not sparing any dirty details; she is also enthusiastic when receiving customers.
But after a busy day, the house still did not sell, and she seemed to be strong, but she still could not live in Ren, hiding in the house and collapsing and crying.
Adult collapses are often at that moment, when she slaps herself hard and scolds herself for being a crying ghost.
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In the evening, the couple went to school to watch their daughter's cheerleaders perform.
However, Lester's eyes were completely absent from his daughter, and he fell in love with her girlfriend Angela.
After the performance, Lester pretended to be perfunctory to praise his daughter, but in fact, his eyes were fixed on Angela.
Angela also saw that something was wrong with Leicester, but she didn't mind because she liked the feeling of being noticed.
When she returned home, her daughter found that her newly moved neighbor was secretly patting her, and she gave her middle finger to the neighbor, but when she returned home, she secretly rejoiced, and she was finally noticed like a girlfriend.
Tou photographs her neighbor named Richie, and his family is also very twisted. His father was a lieutenant colonel in the Navy, and he was very dignified at home, and he was against comrades. Gay neighbors came to give him gifts, but instead he scolded their sons behind their backs for being disgusting.
At school, Angela is bragging to Jenny about her rich emotional experiences.
At this moment, Richie came over and kept looking at Jenny.
Stared at by a tou pat, Jenny felt uncomfortable.
But Richie said he wasn't trying to scare her, he was just curious about her.
Jenny was a little impressed.
In the evening, Lester accompanied his wife to socialize and met the real estate king.
His wife had a good conversation with him, but left Lester aside to drink alone.
At this time, Richie came over again, and it turned out that he was working as a waiter here.
Richie saw that he was in a bad mood, so he took him outside to smoke a super strong cigarette, and under the influence of the cigarette, Lester felt that he had not had such a happy conversation with anyone for a long time.
In the evening, her girlfriend Angela comes to Jenny's house to play, and when she hears Lester coming home, Angela decides to tease him.
In Lester's vision, they kissed.
Looking back, Les deliberately did not finish, he secretly ran outside his daughter's house to eavesdrop.
Angela said to Jenny: Your father is still very interesting, if he is in better shape, it will be even better.
Upon hearing this, Lester was like a chicken blood, and he quickly ran to the basement and decided to start working out on the spot.
He took off his clothes and happily exercised in front of the window. He felt that as long as he could develop a muscle, he would be able to get Angela's heart.
Unexpectedly, Ritchie, who was going to look to photograph Jenny, found Lester.
So I filmed this funny scene.
At this time, Richie's father knocked on the door, and he handed over a cup for Richie's urine sample.
It turned out that Richie had smoked bad things, and now he had to have a regular urine test every six months.
At night, when Lester imagined Angela's beautiful body in bed, ignoring his wife, Caroline had already seen that something was wrong with Lester, and the two quarreled.
Today's Lester is no longer the cowardly and cowardly him, he is full of courage and threatens his wife, I helped you get the intermediary license, if Li marries I can still share half of your property.
After saying that, he slept happily, and in this repressive marriage, Lester Yi experienced the pleasure of venting for the first time.
Early the next morning, he joined the gay neighbors for a morning run with them.
They asked Leicester if he wanted Jian fat or to improve his stamina. Lester said I just wanted to look good when I wasn't wearing clothes.
After running for a while, he came to the door of Richie's house, where Richie's father was washing his car.
Lester and Ritchie say they want to borrow his movie disc to see it, which is actually their code, and Lester wants to buy him a cigarette.
So Richie took him to the room and gave him a bag of good goods.
Lester came home happily, singing, getting fit, smoking a cigarette, and his little life was very elegant.
But the wife was very unhappy to see this scene and accused Lester of smoking something bad.
But Lester didn't care, and even retorted that his wife was a gold worshipper.
Coming to the company, the boss came to talk to Leicester again. It turned out that the last report he submitted was all about himself, and the company was worthless.
The boss was angry and asked him to leave today.
But Lester didn't panic at all, he only cared about how much severance money the company would give. It also implied that his superiors, if he was not satisfied, would report the editor-in-chief's misappropriation of Gong money to the IRS.
The boss had no choice but to agree.
After Zui, Lester got a large compensation payment and then went to a fast food restaurant to find a job as a waiter. Although the salary is low, there are not so many intrigues.
Lester's little days were getting happier and happier, and his wife Caroline seemed to be going well. She and the real estate king met frequently, the two met and hated late, and their feelings developed rapidly.
The daughter's relationship with Richie also heats up, and Richie takes her home to see her father's collection.
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As the days passed, Leicester, who insisted on fitness, was getting better and better.
On this day, he gave Richie a gesture to contact him to sell cigarettes.
But this scene was seen by Richie's father on the side, who felt that something was wrong and suspected that Richie had once again embarked on the road of sucking bad things.
So after they left, Richie's father went to his son's room and rummaged through them.
Unexpectedly, what he found was not smoke, but a videotape that Richie accidentally filmed, Lester's naked fitness.
Richie's father was shocked and suspected that his son might be a gay man.
On this day, Caroline mixed with the real estate king again, and the two drove to the fast food restaurant to order food, only to be caught by Lester who was working there.
With the handle in his hand, Lester became more and more arrogant in speaking to his wife.
In the evening, Lester found that his cigarette had been smoked again, so he called Richie.
At this time, Richie was eating with his family, so he told his father that he would send learning materials to Jenny.
Richie's father was suspicious and hid in the shadows, and sure enough, Instead of going to find Jenny, He met with Lester.
Seeing the bare-chested Lester, Richie's father misunderstands his relationship with his own son.
In the evening Angela came to play with Jenny again, and when she saw Lester, Angela praised him for his good figure, and the confident Lester asked, Do you like muscles?
Seeing that Lester was so proactive, Angela instigated and made an excuse to sneak back to play with Jenny.
When Richie returned home, he was punched directly by his father. He threatened Richie to kick you out of the house if you were gay.
Richie breathed a sigh of relief that he had long wanted to leave this repressed home, so he pretended to admit that he was comrade.
The father clenched his fists in anger and told him to get out of the house.
Richie packed his bags and went straight to Jenny and asked her to go with him.
Jenny agreed.
Angela tries to keep her, but Jenny doesn't appreciate it, and the two have a big fight.
On the other side, Lester's wife, Caroline, did not come home, and she was alone in the car listening to the inspirational chicken soup that Success had learned.
Feeling that she should not be a weakling, she picked up a handful of Qiang, and a dark conspiracy burned in her heart, and she wanted Sha to kill her husband Lester.
Richie's father, who thought his son was gay, was severely hit and braved the heavy rain to come to Leicester's house.
At this point, Lester was exercising, and seeing Richie's father, who was soaking wet, Lester hurried to let him in.
Richie's father asked Lester if his wife was at home.
Lester said his wife was hanging out with someone else, but he didn't care.
Lester's casual remark made Richie's father more certain of the fact that Lester was a comrade.
He said nothing and turned to leave.
After exercising, Lester returned upstairs and bumped into the lonely Angela, who felt very lonely after falling out with Jenny.
Lester gently comforts Angela, and the atmosphere gradually becomes ambiguous, but at the crucial moment, Angela says that this is her first Yi.
Lester was stunned, it turned out that Angela had previously bragged wildly about her rich experience, all of which were due to vanity, and she was still an unworldly child.
Thinking of this, Lester put away his evil thoughts about Xie.
After he insisted on letting Angela go back, he went back to the living room, looked at the pictures of his family, and smiled happily.
Only then did he realize how precious his family was.
However, a Qiang sound broke the calm night, and Lester collapsed in a pool of blood.
Before he died, his whole life flashed before his eyes.
Lester saw his own life, to be precise, the important person in his life, His wife, his daughter...
Was it Lester's wife, Carolyn Sha, who died in Leicester? No.
The killer was actually Richie's father, a traditional soldier who could not be mixed up with his son and comrades. He Sha died in Leicester.
And this Qiang sound also woke up the wife, and when she saw that her husband really died in front of her, she realized how much she loved him. She rushed to her husband's closet, clutched the clothes he had left behind, and wept bitterly.
Just before his death, Lester realized that the world he lived in was no longer as desperate as before, even a plastic bag that drifted with the wind was so calm in his eyes, and the world was so beautiful.
It turned out that what he had was the beautiful thing of Zui in this world.
But we who live in it always can't feel it, and often wait until we lose it before regretting it.
No matter how bad life is, we should cherish the present and cherish the people we love.
I'm afraid I won't cherish what I already have, I'm afraid I don't want to let go of what I'm going to lose eventually.