更新时间:2008-02-05
Qing. • 阳光小美女:Bounce back against all odds
This is the funny thing about life: no matter how hard you try to prepare, plan and push things in a certain direction, sometimes you simply will not get there. And our success-obsessed society has got a word for everyone that's been stuck halfway - the loser. Look at the Hoover family and you will get the picture: the motivational speaker who fails to motivate anyone to buy his nine-step-technique to success; the teenage Nietzsche fanatic who takes a nine-month silent vow to be a pilot yet (spoiler alert) turns out to be colorblind; the best Proust scholar who is beaten, professionally and romantically, by the second best in his field; and on top of this, our little miss with big dream, who, with her jaw-dropping performance in the beauty pageant, trumps the movie's comic zing while (quite unexpectedly) sets a serious perspective on success and failure, dreams and disappointment.
I watched Little Miss Sunshine with the expectation of a slapstick featuring a dysfunctional family. Hilarious, it was, but it's not the laughs that kept me to my toes. I found myself heartened by how the family pulled together as obstacles emerged one after another, and by heart-swelling revelations of the characters though they're often intersected with situational jokes. For a small movie, it managed to ponder on some big questions, like a person's financial worth, moral perfection and popularity; while on success, the answer was also suggested: life is not a beauty pageant, just do what you like and fuck the rest.
I feel myself especially empathetic with Dwayne, probably because his loathing of competition echoes my own. I, too, hate to compete just to impress; for life is not about fulfilling the expectations of others and blowing away the high-ups, it's about setting sights on something you know is hard to achieve yet rising to the occasion regardless. Dare to dream, dare to pursue, dare to bounce back against all odds.
I watched Little Miss Sunshine with the expectation of a slapstick featuring a dysfunctional family. Hilarious, it was, but it's not the laughs that kept me to my toes. I found myself heartened by how the family pulled together as obstacles emerged one after another, and by heart-swelling revelations of the characters though they're often intersected with situational jokes. For a small movie, it managed to ponder on some big questions, like a person's financial worth, moral perfection and popularity; while on success, the answer was also suggested: life is not a beauty pageant, just do what you like and fuck the rest.
I feel myself especially empathetic with Dwayne, probably because his loathing of competition echoes my own. I, too, hate to compete just to impress; for life is not about fulfilling the expectations of others and blowing away the high-ups, it's about setting sights on something you know is hard to achieve yet rising to the occasion regardless. Dare to dream, dare to pursue, dare to bounce back against all odds.
阳光小美女Little Miss Sunshine(2006)
又名：阳光小小姐(港) / 小太阳的愿望(台) / 选美一家亲 / 选美小小姐
上映日期：2006-01-20(圣丹斯电影节)/2006-08-18(美国)片长：103分钟
主演：阿比盖尔·布蕾斯琳 Abigail Breslin/托妮·克莱特 Toni Collette/格雷戈·金尼尔 Greg Kinnear/保罗·达诺 Paul Dano/史蒂夫·卡瑞尔 Steve Carell/艾伦·阿金 Alan Arkin/布莱恩·科兰斯顿 Bryan Cranston/迪恩·诺里斯 Dean Norris
导演：乔纳森·戴顿 Jonathan Dayton/维莱莉·法瑞斯 Valerie Faris编剧：迈克尔·阿恩特 Michael Arndt
