American Beauty was stereotype heaped on stereotype of bad conservative, good liberal. But the liberals were truly depraved, which is what made them good, while the conservatives were just everything that liberals fear. And the whole plot was based around a middle aged man (the protagonist if you will) in heat over a high school girl. Sick.
I made a mistake with the titles.
The movie I was really thinking of was called
American Psycho, starring Christian Bale, a movie which came out in 2000. When I saw a short tape of him in character, dressed in a blood stained white tuxedo, smiling broadly, and swinging a bloody ax, I said then it was not the sort of movie I would ever go to see. Too disturbing.
American Beauty was a completely different movie starring, guess who?
Kevin Spacey.