Culture and Personal Stories
14 min
"American Beauty": A Film That Predicted Our Obsession with Facades
1999. No Instagram, no LinkedIn, no stories. Yet the film already shows a woman polishing the facade of a perfect life and hitting herself in the face when reality doesn't match the picture. A $4000 couch has become more important than the husband sitting on it. In 25 years, only the tools have changed. The mechanism remains the same.