Beauty

I just saw American Beauty, a film renowned for its messages that people who are beautiful on the outside are inferior and worth less than those who possess an inner beauty, messages with which I do not agree. As many people have already said, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and nothing can change that. There's the minority, who prefer inner beauty, and the majority, those who prefer their beauty on the outside. Movies like American Beauty give off the impression that the former of these beliefs is the one that shows moral superiority, that inner beauty is much deeper and beautiful than outer beauty, when in fact, no one can make a statement like this and be so sure of themselves. Preference of beauty is something implanted in the mind, not a choice one consciously makes. Humans themselves can't deny their urges and the majority cannot fully and truly love someone they are not attracted to. It is primal nature of man to love what is beautiful and it isn't fair to call it 'deep' or 'shallow' or insult him because of it. To quote Rachel Carson "Man is a part of nature, and his war on nature is inevitably a war on himself." To defy and deny what man is is sacrilege and injustice. People cannot preach messages like the one in American Beauty simply to 'stand up for the little guy'. They have to mean it. You can't just say stuff to sound intellectual and politically correct. You have to know what you're talking about.