Little Miss Sunshine
I went to see this movie last night. It was brilliant. Balash discovered it some months ago, when we were still together. He was excited to see it. We were excited to see it.
http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/littlemisssunshine
It starts off with the family coming together from their different lives, attempting to come together as one. The unifying force that puts them on a yellow VW Bus (every so reminiscent of a yellow submarine) is the daughters acceptance to a beauty pagent, the Little Miss Sunshine competition. The road trip starts off to Redondo Beach, CA with the mother and father on the verge of divorce and bankruptcy, a son who has discovered Nitche, wants to be a navy pilot and has taken a vow of silence; a grandfather who has a heroin addiction; and an uncle who is the premier scholar on Proust in the US who has just attempted suicide because of unrequited love to his gay lover. It's simply beautiful!
As the movie rolled along with stops and starts of the relationships and the bus, I laughed and laughed. When the final scene came around I laughed so hard, that I started to sob. The sting of recognition in the little girl Olive, competeing in a beauty pagent was all to familiar to me and my attempts at dance teams, and stage performances as a young woman. The sting was the most beautiful of all.
Go see it.
World Girl
http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/littlemisssunshine
It starts off with the family coming together from their different lives, attempting to come together as one. The unifying force that puts them on a yellow VW Bus (every so reminiscent of a yellow submarine) is the daughters acceptance to a beauty pagent, the Little Miss Sunshine competition. The road trip starts off to Redondo Beach, CA with the mother and father on the verge of divorce and bankruptcy, a son who has discovered Nitche, wants to be a navy pilot and has taken a vow of silence; a grandfather who has a heroin addiction; and an uncle who is the premier scholar on Proust in the US who has just attempted suicide because of unrequited love to his gay lover. It's simply beautiful!
As the movie rolled along with stops and starts of the relationships and the bus, I laughed and laughed. When the final scene came around I laughed so hard, that I started to sob. The sting of recognition in the little girl Olive, competeing in a beauty pagent was all to familiar to me and my attempts at dance teams, and stage performances as a young woman. The sting was the most beautiful of all.
Go see it.
World Girl
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