《美国丽人》是一部深刻反映美国社会在人与人交往过程中暴露出人性异化以及危机的影片,导演萨姆.门德斯在对影片进行叙事的过程中,体现出了对萨特存在主义的思考。本文通过对影片的分析着重探讨其中所表现出的异化发生条件、人与人在异化状态下对待死亡的态度,以及对影片中表现出对存在终极意义的探讨。 “American Beauty” is a film that profoundly reflects the alienation and crisis of human nature exposed by the American society in the process of human-to-human contact. In the process of narrating the film, director Sam Mendes shows the existence of Sartre Doctrine of Thinking. This article focuses on the film analysis of the alienation conditions demonstrated in which the attitude of people in the alienated state of death, as well as the film shows the ultimate meaning of existence.