American Beauty and Citizen Kane are similar in many way's but im going to focus on fact that both characters want to be younger again. In Kane's movie it show his life from a young boy to an old man, and through out that time he go through allot, and as viewers we can see that he want to have a childhood again. Through out the movie he's constantly moving and buying things and he even try to buy love and happiness. Because of his father treating him wrongly he don't get to spend much time with his mother and his childhood get ripped away from him. So because of the lack of parenting in his life and he just had people buying him things and him buying things him self he really don't know what love s and how to obtain it.
In American Beauty Lester sort of face the same problem but he already experienced love and want to experience being a teenager. His marriage has depleted, him and his wife are distant from each other. While the wife is cheating on him, going to gun ranges, and bing more crazy the dad is out blak mailing people, getting a fast food job, and tacking back a life in which money seem more important. While he's doing this he isn't seeing the big picture of actual becoming apart of some one else's life he's just becoming a dictator.When on his path of redemption he should of been more inclined to work his way back into his daughters life and possible get his wife back.
To me both characters over time developed into something in which they may of done allot but didn't really do what they really wanted. In Citizen Kane by the end of the film pretty much drove away every one he thought he cared about except for the maids who's inclined to stay there and take care of him. American beauty's character Lester developed over time as well he managed to cause his wife to go insane, his daughter hated him so much she was about to run away with her boyfriend ricky but he did learn something. Both characters learned that over the course of their lives they never really got back the thing they both really wanted which is love, but by the end they understand right before their death what they had to do to be happy.
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