The dad beats up his neighbor for showing, what the believes to be homosexual tendancies!.........
This scene was not in the editors uncensored cut. I have no idea what part of the movie you are talking about. The dad never beat up a neighbor.
Congratulations! You have been successfully programmed by the screenwriter!
You guys keep saying this, but have never explained what I have been "programed" of. My views on queers has not changed. How you can claim a movie has "subliminally affected" people you have never met is beyond me. Wait, are you really Ms. Cleo? Come on, fess up.
Please read the following review from NATIONAL REVIEW by Jonah Goldberg:
http://www.nationalreview.com/weekend/culture/culture-goldberg101200.shtml
An interesting paragraph:
"American Beauty won the Oscar for best picture last year, but it wasn't alone in its message. Indeed, the winners in almost every major category involved some variation on the theme that external moral authority is illegitimate, or that personally designed morality is superior. For example, another academy favorite was Boys Don't Cry, a film about a petty criminal, a transsexual woman who prefers masquerading as a boy in order to seduce and bed teenage girls. What raised the film to heroic status for Hollywood is its assertion that America remains, at heart, a nation of sexual fascists who cruelly impose conventional bourgeois standards on courageous nonconformists...........contention that not only should sexual appetites be indulged, but those who most fully indulge them, without regret or remorse, are living the most authentic lives"
Hmmmmmmmmmm..............it appears that this reviewer from NR saw "a different American Beauty" from yourself.
I'm sorry, but this movie was rotten to the core and other people saw this too.
Good luck to you.