My Presentation

Why i chose this topic?
I chose this topic as most recent films shown in cinemas are going with the American dream and showing a happy life with no huge problems. However in Kids and American Beauty it portrays American youth in a completely different way showing the struggles and problems that some people could face.
What i hope to learn?
I hope to find out and show that American films can give the effect of life being perfect and not showing the audience some truth of real life and just showing the ideal American Dream ideology.

Key Scenes:
Kids http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCot-k3FJuI
American Beauty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amnNp8FpqL8
High Shool Musical http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvkh29RKFRY

What i have learnt so far
1. Kids and American Beauty are films that I would not normally pick up to watch and I didn’t know much about the trashing of the American Dream in films, as most films show how lovely life is such as High School Musical. 2. Kids and American Beauty show the complete opposite side of American Youth than High School Musical and shows the effects and that bad things happens in life. For example in Kids Telly gives youth girls HIV and in American Beauty Jane turns against her Parents who give her no attention of self confidence. 3. I’ve looked into a range of different film reviews from sites such as empire, rotten tomatoes and filmcritic.com and on all the website American Beauty gets the highest star rating followed by Kids and last High School Musical.