She has appeared from her rented room across the hall from his.In her first husky, sexy lines to him as she leans in, she makes a simple, deadpan request for a match, but it sounds like an erotic challenge:Anybody got a match?He tosses her a box of matches so she can light her own cigarette.Nonetheless, it remains one of the most optimistic American films of the post-war period - with Paris at its center.The biggest distraction in the town was in progress at the courthouse, where Rosa was a suspect in a manslaughter case and faced a coroner""s inquest.And it is the right of the people that they shall not be deprived of hope.BackgroundAmerican Beauty(1999) is a tragic, absurdist, satirical and dark domestic tale - and thedebutfeature film of British-London theatrical-stage director Sam Mendes." According o Pete, however, the rooms are "locked up.Some are show rooms for feed salesmen, cattle buyers.The rest, they""re spoken for, rented o cowboys, ranch hands for when they come into town.They pay by he month.We provide for their every wish and comfort." After Macreedy has insisted on a room and climbed the stairs, Hector orders surveillance:I wanna know everything he does, Pete.