Little Miss Sunshine

 Little Miss Sunshine Review

I love this movie. I don’t think it ever crossed my mind until just watching it now. But as a child, I remember seeing this. And it plucked at my heartstring and at a young age no less. But it sat in the back of my mind, and I didn’t understand a lot of it due to being young and naive. For instance I didn’t know the grandfather was on drugs until just watching. But today I was on the hunt, and got a bunch of movies for a buck each. I saw a lot I could have watched, (Godfather, Scarface, The Incredible Hulk) but I wanted something to review. I could have watched maybe Cars, the Green Hornet, but no, I decided to delve into my preconscious, and watch Little Miss Sunshine. And wow did I enjoy this just now. First compliment, I think every scene in this movie was done as good as it could have. There wasn’t a single choice of dialogue I didn’t like, a single way something shot, or anything else I could find wrong. I think I’ve been able to do that with The Shawshank Redemption and… that’s probably it. Second, every single character had tremendous worth, and was valuable to the story. Each has personality, back-story, (by back-story I mean I can see what they’ve gone through, and how they look at life, not some family member that got killed ten years ago or some shit) and like I said, each character is incredibly valuable to the story. And story can mean a lot of different things. When we think of story we think of fun experiences, great art pieces, and lastly, stories that reflect on real life. And this does all of that. I think everything meant something in this movie. It had points, perspectives on things, and social commentary on a lot of different topics. I was watching this and just shook my head thinking, "Wow, beauty pageants are really the devil.” It also talked about the simple concept of winning and losing, how the hardships of life really are the ones that make you who you are, and not in the cliché "what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” approach. This movie was a breath of fresh air, and really heartwarming. And I mean I literally felt warmer and like I had that positive glow around me after seeing this movie. I had feels on feels on feels. I put it in thinking it was going to be really good, but this bounced into the list of my favorite movies of all time. Also, this had something really awesome in it, Bryan Cranston and Dean Norris (Hank) were in this movie. People on drugs, people dying, this is practically a Breaking Bad spin off. (another one) But anyway, I loved seeing this movie. I hope every other year to put it in, get this warm feel, and relive a real and raw movie. Story telling at its finest, and captures some of the most damn hard to endure hardships in awhile, and from somebody whose traveled across the country multiple times, I say they did well to be driving to help capture it. And God, the Departed better be fucking awesome if this didn’t the Oscar. Because this movie lit a light in my heart… a little light. A light of sunshine… yeah, maybe we should end it here.

Little Miss Sunshine gets a 5/5

Spoilers: So yeah, they lost. There is some hard shit for you. And yeah, that kind of goes with the theme for the movie, and its social commentary on winning and losing. Also, Dwayne speaking I remember breaking my world down as a child. Like God damn movie, leave him alone! And I could talk about every scene, I really could. The scene where Miss California talks about ice cream to Olive, the gas station scene, every time they started pushing that fucking car, Hank pulling them over, I loved each scene.