"I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary."
In the film, American Beauty, when Angela Hayes says these words, I think the viewer is meant to hear how paltry and trite these words are. No one wants to be ordinary. Yet, there's something slightly pathetic about saying, "I'm not ordinary, I am extraordinary." Because the odds are against you, and for you to believe otherwise is all a grand delusion.
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but then comes the question of how you define 'ordinary.' isn't it just subjective? my extraordinary could be your ordinary, so the delusion of grandeur here could very well be no delusion at all in someone else's eyes.
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