My Visceral Response

It's the ending to my favorite film, American Beauty. I've watched it dozens of times and still the last three minutes plungs me into one of the greatest dichotomies of feeling my heart can stand.

Color plays a huge role here, along with cinematic elements that capitalize on stupefying, but so does my own frame of reference, something we all independently bring to anything we see that causes such a commotion. Spoiler alert, though: if you haven't seen the film, you may want to before rolling the clip below.


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