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Everyone always says Citizen Kane is the greatest movie ever, and well, it is quite impressive, but i don't hold with that opinion. For me, the greatest film ever is The Graduate. It's funny, sad, satirical, and the best movie by Mike Nichols. If you think about it, American Beauty is the direct decendant of The Graduate. Both films poke fun at their respective era's idea of the perfect family, materialism, and how really kinky the suburbs are under the surface! (And I don't see American Beauty as anti-American at all, for the guy who said that. It's meant to be a satire, I think, not saying "Look how F8cked up and weird Americans are." I didn't get that at all. And the hard-core marines guy being gay was hilarious because it was unexpected. But to each their own, I say.)
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