... look closer

[carini]

ok so i have been sitting her staring at my American Beauty poster... i do that a lot cause i keep expecting to find something is i ... look closer.... a bug in the rose.. a flaw on the hand.. something.. well i think i just found it... her belly button is shaped like death's syth

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I have the CD box right here in front of me...and you're right. Sorta.

 

[carini]

...weird huh... i keep wondering if i am just crazy or if that was intentional

 

[Sateema Lunasi]

The "Look Closer" thing actually doesn't have anything to do with the image. It was chosen as the slogan for the movie because on Lester's desk at work in the film, he had a magazine clipping that read "Look Closer..."

Sam Mendes said that in his mind, this magazine clipping was a symbol of hope. It was the only thing that kept him from going nuts for years. You might notice that after he falls for Angela, the clipping shows up taped to his bedroom mirror.

 

[Sateema Lunasi]

A useless bit of trivia

It might be interesting to point out that the hand and the tummy in the poster belong to two different people and neither of them are Mena Suvari.