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When you write about or adapt into cinema certain truths of society, people who are themselves part of the very things being criticized can find elements in the story that they perceive as false or taboo. Yet these are in fact naked realities that exist within the ordinary flow of life and that we must accept. The entrenched taboos and conservative moral frameworks of society, however, narrow our perspectives and blind us to cinematic truth. Sam Mendes’s 1999 masterpiece American Beauty is one o

Jean-Gabriel Tarde