"Little Sunshine", a film with such a positive title describes a story that does not conform to the orthodox aesthetic. The movie revolves around a family: a middle-aged couple. The wife is a housewife who uses smoking to relieve stress. There is a younger brother of a university professor who was expelled because of a same-sex relationship dispute and attempted suicide. The husband was a "successful paranoia" and created his own nine The step-by-step success method wants to develop by this. There is a father who is addicted to drugs and is full of swear words. Both children have their own problems. The son is a world-weary and vowed to ban before entering the air force school. The younger daughter is overweight. And dream of becoming Miss America. Such a problematic young man, middle-aged and old man, in order for his youngest daughter to participate in the Little Sunshine Beauty Pageant, they all dispatched by chance and took an old and worn-out minibus to the destination. On the way, he experienced a series of unlucky events such as his father's death from drug overdose, his son was found to be colorblind and unable to apply for the Air Force school. The dream was disillusioned, and the husband was unable to publish the nine-step success method and faced bankruptcy. The husband decided to steal his father's body and send his little daughter to the beauty contest. In order to realize his father's last wish.
Ordinarily, the ending of this film should be expected. The youngest daughter won the top spot in the competition, which encouraged this big family to regain their confidence in life. But no, according to this ending, this movie is at best a second-rate inspirational film. The real ending is that after they participated in the competition, they found that the competition was just for all the children to follow the adult model to win the favor of the old-fashioned and obscure judges by dressing and acting that are not commensurate with their age. The youngest daughter insisted on continuing the competition despite the opposition of her father and brother. In the talent show, she performed a striptease that her grandfather taught everyone was jaw-dropping. The parents and brothers danced together from embarrassment to standing applause to the stage. Participated in the California beauty pageant and ended up.
What is the law of success? When an overwhelming number of successful books, lectures, DVDs, and MP3s appear in our lives, and when the annual sales champion of every bookstore is always those inspirational books, a question that has troubled me for a long time is whether we can achieve it by using these success rules. What do we want to achieve? Everyone becomes a successful person? Obviously when we buy these books, DVDs, and listen to these lectures, we have achieved the author's success. In the film, the husband opens his mouth and does not depart from his nine-step success method. This rule is also used as a bible in the education of his children, so that the little daughter is burdened with a kind of "don't wanna be a loser, cause dad don'" t like loser" pressure.
The law of success often follows a pattern, setting goals, making efforts, and achieving goals. But it does not answer what we should do if the goal is an impossible task or the goal is simply wrong. The eldest son in the film, his goal is to enter the air force school, but he suddenly finds that he is color-blind. The beauty contest that the youngest daughter dreams of is nothing but a meaningless show. The original goal and dream have become illusory. What we can do is accept all the setbacks and hardships, but there is no other way.
When the eldest son complained about the fate of his fate, and hoped that he would not have to go to trash high school and not go through all other things when he sleeps until he is 18, the wife’s younger brother said in the film a classic saying "Proust, a French writer, is a complete loser. There is no real job, unrequited love., gay, spent 20 years writing a book, almost no one reads, but he may be the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, in his life Before his death, he looked back and was convinced that those ups and downs were the best time in his life, because this time made him.” It turns out that failure and success are not so far away, and the loser in the general sense is also Can become successful people, it turns out that the setbacks we have experienced are the beginning of life.
The film is also full of mockery of social rules and traditional morality. Grandpa taught his grandson to go through as many sexual experiences as possible, and taught his granddaughter to dance striptease; after his death, grandpa had to fill in the tedious paperwork and forms so that he could not catch up with the game in time and had to steal the body; the registration for the game was 4 minutes late and was rejected. Fortunately, there are enthusiastic people to help. . . The youngest daughter's striptease on the stage of the beauty contest is the biggest rebellion against this rule and tradition, and it has reached the climax of the entire film.
Although the film contains a profound and obscure meaning, its expression is a relaxed and humorous tone. It is done in one go, without a sense of stagnation, and the two-hour viewing time is still not enough.
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