Little sun

Bettye 2022-03-22 09:01:05

When Olive appeared on the stage with big eyes and belly, repeatedly playing back the beauty pageant on TV and trying to imitate the winner's expressions and gestures, I almost thought it was a boring conventional inspirational film, fortunately for the next adult appearance. People use their own unreliable behavior to arouse my interest in watching. Uh, how should I put it, watching how this "loser" who has become a family lives, actually gave me a sense of schadenfreude.
Probably, I am really unkind.
It may also be the accumulation of negative emotions. If you are not careful, you will get grumpy. A word, an opinion, and a request can quickly cause flames. I wish I could slam the dessert bag against the table like Olive's mother, and then grab it. One bite down viciously.
It is said that sweets can help improve mood, so let's tentatively attribute the family's mutual compromise to it.

In any case, for Olive's beauty pageant, the whole family is finally on the road collectively. The seven-seater van headed for the sunshine on California highways, but the journey was unexpectedly unsuccessful: the car’s broken clutch, father’s denial of “investment”, mother’s hysteria worrying about the family’s future, uncle’s in the gas station convenience store Embarrassing encounter, grandpa's sudden death in a motel, my brother accidentally discovered that he is a color blind patient...
Fortunately, even if life becomes more and more shaky like their broken car, Olive, who hangs headphones along the way, still insists on doing it. "Little Miss Sunshine", this 7-year-old girl who only told her grandfather in the motel that she was worried about failure ended up on a stage that may not be set for her. She was not beautiful, dazzling, or clever enough, but she did. What does it matter? Just like my mother said, just, let Olive to be Olive.
Comedy is not equal to a fairy tale. Of course, Olive cannot be Little Miss Sunshine, but it is so good. In this story of stumbling and pushing forward, the depression of official career, the despair of encountering betrayal, the resentment of broken dreams, and the grief of the death of relatives. Can't conceal the golden light radiated by Little Olive. When the absurd striptease performance turns into a hand-in-hand round dance of the family, the originally riddled life can also revolve into happiness and happiness.

Therefore, I particularly like the title of this movie being translated as "Little Sun's Wish".
The little sun illuminates people's hearts softly and warmly. It turns out that setting aside the success criteria in the universal values, it is not so difficult to accept and fall in love with the imperfect self.

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Extended Reading

Little Miss Sunshine quotes

  • [first lines]

    Richard: There are two kinds of people in this world, winners and losers.

  • Richard: Oh my God, I'm getting pulled over. Everyone, just... pretend to be normal.