Comparing Lester of American Beauty and Ricci of The Bicycle Thief Essa

Comparing Lester of American Beauty and Ricci of The Bicycle Thief In American Beauty Kevin Spacey who plays Lester lives a typical middle relegate lifewith his family. His married woman is having an affair, his rebellious lady friend doesnt talk to him and his neighbors be psycho. In contrast The Bicycle Thief portrays a tight family. Riccis wife loves him, his be peed son talks to him and his neighbors are helpful when a crises occurs. In both of these films the main characters, Lester and Ricci, go through a responsibility stage. some(prenominal) must view as a life changing experience, either good or bad, that will have an effect on the people around them.Lester decides to make a few changes in his rut of life, changes that are lessmid-life and much adolescence like. While he slowly goes through these changes on film one and only(a) can see that the to a greater extent responsibility he gives up the more happy he becomes. What hegives up to make him happy, though, on ly makes his family more hateful towards him. Itisnt that he gave up his responsibilities to improve his relationship with his daughter or improve it with his wife but to be selfish and fulfil himself from what he lost when he was young. He does reckless and foolish things in this movie, but he doesnt deceivehimself, he knows hes running wild--and chooses to. He let these feelings over powerhim and he closely let this irresponsibility get the best of him when he found himself totally with his daughters best friend. Its perfectly natural to have feelings like he has toward her but there came a time with him when he saw what he was going to do was not right. So he refrained and actually gained a friend. (After he has been losing people left and right) His ability to refrain from his feat... ...l up Ricci throughout his search encounters indifference to humanityand incivility of new(prenominal)s. Ricci fights within himself to be the come apart person but only ends up in interna l encroach with himself. He loses his respect for himself and we are astonished by his indecency toward other people of Riccis same impoverished disposition. On the other hand American Beauty dabbles with the question how uncivil and inhuman cansomeone discredit themselves to over a short period of time. But Lester proves us wrong. His compulsion with Angela in the end turns into an act of humanism and civility towardssomeone who is naive. Both of these main characters traits, at some point in everyoneslife, have delivered or even taught a lesson about refraining from some sort of action that could end up in consequences that are defiant against ones own enactment of conduct orsomeone elses.