Little Miss Sunshine: A Movie About Society's Ridiculousness
The 2006 award winning film Little Miss Sunshine , directed by husband-and-wife team Johathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, tackles heavy societal issues throughout the film while also using a variety of comedy for the movie to be enjoyable to all. Dayton and Faris’s movie pokes fun at the topics of beauty and society’s love for winners (and hatred for losers), to which suggests to the viewers that although these issues are ridiculous, they need to be addressed and changed as soon as possible. The film begins in Albuquerque, where you meet the dysfunctional Hoover family. The youngest, Olive, gets qualified to attend the Little Miss Sunshine Beauty Pageant in California, and all the Hoovers, plus the mother’s adult brother, embark on a road trip to California in a beat-up microbus. Richard Hoover, Olive’s father, is obsessed with the idea of winners and losers, and believes that he and his family must be winners at all costs, as he has created a 9-ste...