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September 21, 2013 03:47:45 PM

Your American Icon:

American Beauty (film)

Location:

suburban Chicago

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Why is this work an American Icon?:

American Beauty encapsulates in a film exactly how it feels to DO things American. We marry, go to work, have kids - like toys wobbling down an assembly line, and we have no idea why we're doing it. We have no idea how what we're doing relates to who we are, and the truth is, we have no idea who we are. The film makes that experience feel real.

First name:

Alex

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