I'm still warm-hearted, eyes filled with tears coupled with stomach cramps from too much laughing after watching this great movie, "Little Miss Sunshine". No big Hollywood gun fireworks a la John Wayne. No stupid teenager or college movie. No predictable love story. None of this.
In fact, it was nice to see yet another inspired movie, and I quickly went online to find out which country it's from. France, I thought? Maybe Spain? But then with Greg Kinnear in it, it had to be American. And it is.
The casting is perfect and the balance between laughter, tears and life lessons makes the movie flow through your heart. Quite a few scenes are hilarious, and the ending is probably one of the most... well, I want to say honnest, I have seen in a long time.
"Little miss sunshine" is basically delivering the message that most people's lives are like a child beauty pageant; fake, inappropriately disturbing, and with a big fat spotlight on everything that doesn't really matter.
We take our lives and dress them up with our screwed-up, self-centered ideas of perfection, creating some sort of personal freak show.
But in reality, we ought to be real about our not so perfect lives, because, let's face it, problems are part of everybody's lives.
The conclusion "Little Miss sunshine" seems to be drawing is that instead of trying so hard to pretend and save face, instead of devoting all our energy trying to control every parcel of what others see of us, we should celebrate our troubled lives, without any emphasis on fixing the trouble. Just be ourselves. Go with the feeling. And be willing to laugh at ourselves.
