Little Miss Sunshine Film Review Essay

low Miss sun is a film about how families are always in that respect for each other no matter how dysfunctional their family may be. Released in July of 2006, the film is directed by a husband and wife team, Jonathan Dayton and Vanessa Faris. The film directors do a terrific job of keeping their audience engaged and amused throughout the film. The main character of the movie is a young seven division old girl named chromatic Hoover, played by A regretfulail Breslin. Olive has always had a dream of being in a beauty pageant. One twenty-four hour period her dream came true, when she was accepted into a beauty pageant in California. Due to certain situations in the family, in all family members are forced to indulge on this travel to California with Olive. Having completely different personalities, each family member creates comical conflicts between characters. From this story of family bonds, viewers will realize as long as you attempt for something you truly love, your fam ily will be behind you whether you win or lose. The family of Olive has many different quirks, from drug attics to suicidal members, nothing seemed right in Olives mind.Richard and Sheryl are the parents of Olive. Putting together s nine step plan to success, Richard thinks he is a brilliant. His family members and others around him consider him a complete loser. Frank, Sheryls brother is going through depression and suicidal thoughts due to a recent break up with his former boyfriend. Being forced to live with a family member who can watch over him, Frank has to stay in Pauls room, Olives brother. Paul decided that being a jet pilot for the Nietzsche is the only thing he wants in life, everything else is absolutely stupid. For over a year he hasnt spoken one word, use pen and paper to communicate with the orthogonal world. This dysfunctional family would begin embarking on a cross country adventure that will change their lives forever. In Little Miss Sunshine, the film helps rend er the themes of family bonding in a dysfunctional way. Techniques in any movie are very important for a director to produce.One technique in this film is instead of using multiple themes in the film, the dominate theme is family. In many other films, viewers are introduced not only to the main characters, but also introduced to numerous side characters. Dayton and Faris do a very good job on only give the main characters screen time, and no other side characters. This makes the viewer truly understand how the Hoovers work and bond together since there are no outside character. The whole dynamic of the film with the color, light, language and so forth gives the film a special painting in the viewers head. The lighting in the film is more granny than clear, giving off a sort of odd sense while watching the movie. Who would have thought pageants could be created into such a big deal for young girls. For Olive it was. All she could think about was standing on stage receiving that bea utiful cr feature in count of a crowd of people.From the very beginning of the movie, the first scene is of Olive watching Miss America win in the U.S. pageant and being in awe of how she reacts. Her Grandpa, Edwin is the one person in her remote family she really looks up to and knows she can always ask him anything. He has been teaching her a solo exercise for the pageant in California. Unlike most mature and wise grandparents, Edwin is a very perverted druggy, causing a bit of concern to Olives mother and father, since he, rather than a sensible adult, was the one coming up with a solo performance for Olive. Symbols in a movie are always very important because they are the effects that catch the viewers eyes. One example of a symbol in Little Miss Sunshine is the forty year old yellow volks wagon the family uses on their journey to California. However, the van definitely is a perfect match for the Hoover family. It matches how the family stands out because of their strangeness .The van also brings the family together. For instance, when one family member tries to start the van he has trouble, but once the whole family works together to start the van they have no trouble. The restaurant menu is also another symbol. On the road the family stops at a restaurant to grab a quick bite. Creating a big controversy when Olive states she wants to order ice cream with her pancakes, the family says how she should not have all that food since she is going into a pageant. The menu symbolizes Americas arrested development with diets and weight. The final scene of the movie shows how families are willing to do anything while standing behind a family member. Olives performance turned into a very provocative dance. Instead of her dad going on stage to remove Olive from the pageant, he begins to dance with her.Then the rest of the family joins them on stage. scour though Olive lost the competition and was never allowed to come back to any pageant in the state of Californi a, she didnt care. She had a blast do in her first pageant and she knew her family was proud of her. In the end, Olive was the one who brought her family together. She taught them that it doesnt matter if you win or lose, the way you look or act, family is all you need. Little Miss Sunshine depicts numerous conclusions. Stand behind your family no matter how ridiculous they may seem. Who cares about what others think about you. Maybe you tangle witht have the skills someone else has or the looks but as long as you try you know you are a winner in your own heart no matter the outcome. Sometimes there really is sunshine on a cloudy day.Works Cited Little Miss Sunshine. www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/little-miss-sunshine. Rich Barton, 18 Dec. 2006. Web. 2 Oct. 2012. Little Miss Sunshine. http//www.imdb.com/title/tt0449059/. IMDB, 2006. Web. Random House Websts College Dictionary Random House New York 1999