notes

•    Opening scene, someone asks daughter if she wants her dad to be killed.  Daughter confirms.  This mysterious voice says then that he will in fact kill her father. The voice’s tone seems happy and completely willing
•    Lester at 42 years old, admits that his life is consists of nothing – emptiness.
•        Lester’s life is falling apart – love is lost with his wife, his daughter despises him, and he is on the brink of losing his job.
•        Lester tries conversing with his daughter, but she shuts him down, saying he hasn’t talked to her in months as she walks away.  Lester follows her and instead of apologizing, he insists that it is her fault for not coming to talk to him.  Negligent of his choices made to not spend time of his daughter, Lester blames her for not talking.
•    Lester’s wife on the other hand, a real estate agent, is a driven woman.  She works hard to make her homes appealing to customers, however fails to sell many houses.  Unlike Lester, she tries to make the best of her situations.
•    Lester and his wife go to see their daughter cheerlead at her schools basketball game.  Why? His wife forces Lester because she says they need to support their daughter.  At the game, the mom is cheering for their daughter, while Lester is fantasizing about another cheerleader, a friend of their daughters.
•    The friend says, “there’s nothing worse in life than being ordinary”
•    When the gay couple walks over to meet the new neighbors, the Mr. Fitz., ex marine, is taken back by their openness of their sexuality.  When the marine says how he hated that, his son, Ricky,  replies in defense of the gay couple.  The marine is shocked and says excuse me?  The son then says mean and nasty remarks about gays like his father.
•    The wife starts to flirt with the head realtor in the area and schedules a lunch date with him.
•    Lester smokes marijuana with Ricky who is working at his wife’s work party.
•    Lester hears his daughter’s friend, Angela, who he fantasizes about, say she would sleep with him if he worked out (in a joking tone). Lester hears this and immediately runs to the garage and starts working out with weights.
•    Lester gets in an argument with his wife, in which he says he feels his is worthless to her.
•    Lester buys more drugs from Ricky, and works out more and more.
•    “I’m just an ordinary guy with nothing to lose” says Lester as he tells off his boss.
•    Lester’s wife sleeps with the head realtor after their lunch date.
•    Lester wants to work at a fast food place.  He wants a position that “has the least amount of responsibility”
•    Ricky films a plastic bag flying around in the wind and says it’s the most beautiful thing hes ever seen. – a bag simply dancing in the wind, telling him that there’s nothing in life to be afraid of.  So much beauty in the world that sometimes he cannot take it, which makes his heart feel like its going to cave in.
•    Lester flips out at dinner and says he is sick and tired of being treated like he doesn’t exist.  Lester is finally saying and doing whatever he wants, only because he is tired of being meaningless.
•    After Lester flips out, their daughter calls them freaks and now Ricky, who was originally the freak, is normal to her.
•    Lester tells his wife that in life there are just stuff, and you cant let it be worth more than living.
•    We learn that Lester’s daughter just wishes that she was as important to him as her friend Angela is.  She claims he is doing psychological damage – needs a role model.
•        This is when we learn that the voice from the opening scene, is Ricky, who asks if she wants him to kill Lester for her. Which she agrees too. However, as they continue to discuss the matter, she says that she is not serious.
•    Lester catches his wife cheating on him.
•    You’re only a victim if you chose to be a victim?
•        Ricky stands up to his dad and is kicked out of the house
•        Angela who seems perfect is the most ordinary
•        The homophobic ex marine kisses Lester
•        Lester nearly has sex with Angela, but doesn’t – he stops himself.
•        Lester says he feels great and finally feels beauty again. And then his wife shoots him from behind.