LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE [2006] review

The Universe tried to stop me from seeing LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, but F the Universe. … And I am much the better for it. … IT’s now 2:49am and I can hardly keep my eyes open by my balcony sliding glass door is open to winter and wind and my mind is racing, and the good vibes from seeing this special movie resonate through my whole being. I feel like I’ve been woken up from a great ice encased slumber, and I woke up to tell the Universe to F itself. I literally went out on my balcony a few minutes ago and screamed “F you!!!” … That’s what this movie has inspired me to do.

…All movies I find great have one common characteristic, a memorable, moving soundtrack. … I am listening to it right now and its an ethereal, emotional, American score of European accent that defines being on the Road with one’s eyes bent on the horizon, just trying to get where you are going, letting nothing stop you, not even Death.

…And I could not be stopped.

…There is still nothing greater than the open Road in America.

…Olive is a 7-year old girl who is super stoked to make it into a beauty pageant of some sorts. Trained by her grandfather who snorts H and surrounded by a brother in the middle of a vow of silence, an uncle who just tried to commit suicide, a supportive but frazzled mother and a father who has got 9 steps for those that “refuse to lose.”

What a movie with spirit…..what a movie to rally by. What a movie to show that the human spirit is F-ed in this new century, but damn it it can still find at least one day to triumph! See this movie, then stand on your balcony and scream something! I had no movie to pull for for the Best Picture Oscar, but now I do.

…Those beauty pageant contestants were the most horrific and disgusting things I’ve ever seen on film.

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