American Beauty Violence Quotes

Ricky is using a figure of speech here when he breaks into his father's locked display case to show Jane a piece of Nazi china, but we soon learn that it's actually kind of a real possibility—Frank gets super angry and violent, and as we later find out, he is absolutely capable of murder.

Once Ricky has shown Jane the Nazi plate, he notices that she looks kind of stunned. And rightly so—that's a strange thing to want to show off. However, Ricky is super-concerned and kind when he realizes he might have scared Jane, which diffuses any fear she might have had in that moment.

See, we told you Frank could get super violent. As Ricky predicted, his dad is not happy to realize that Ricky had been in his cabinet and goes straight to physical violence. He doesn't kill Ricky, of course, but the fact that he's so quick to resort to violence is pretty worrying.