Miss Sunshine who seeks common ground while reserving differences

Nelda 2022-04-19 09:01:06

Modern Western families seem to be more receptive to differences than to the high desire for consistency in Chinese families. As a popular situation drama, the most interesting part of Miss Sunshine is its "dramatic" character design, including:


a drug-addicted hippie grandfather who wrote a

book and taught people the way of "success" and his father who

smoked "Success". "No Food" The good wife is a

famous scholar, but the gay uncle who tried to commit suicide is

cynical, the older brother who stopped talking after watching Nixie

innocently uses Miss America as his idol, the little fat girl who is

in Chinese society, this drama will go on. If it is not a great ethical tragedy, or it is a full house of friends at the golden hour of eight o’clock/everyone is happy – in short, no matter whether it is sad or happy, the acute angle must be smoothed out, and everything must return to the safe mode of fatherly kindness and filial piety.

Although there are still critics who think that Miss Sunshine has not been able to get rid of the strange chicken director Todd Solondz's classic heterochromatic work Happiness (Hong Kong translation Are you happy? (1998), but I think that the reason why the positive film is interesting is that the whole film is full of "originating from differences". In addition, the film has also broken the terrorist tradition of mainstream American road films, and has successfully integrated with the traditional European road films that emphasize self-exploration.

In this way, although this film has a profound impact on family and social values Criticism is not sharp, everything may be too sunny and too warm, but in the modern society where swords are often drawn, a warm and nourishing medicine is still a must at home, especially when we have just removed the terrible .

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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.