Our age is a winning age. Every self-help book, from home and abroad, shows you the way to the top. Every competition, online or on TV, displays the benefits of being a winner. Every parent, married or divorced, pushes the kids to be N.O.1. Every company, national or international, forces itself into the Fortune 500 list. Every country, big or small, desires to be powerful enough to devastate others. If you win, you are crowned and regarded as a role model to all. If you lose, congratulations, you’ve got another name: LOSER.
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We live in an age of winner-manic and loser-phobia. That is what distinguishes this film: LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE. Instead of being one more orchestrated anthem dedicated to the winning group, this film is a carnival about living, fighting and forgeting of the losing team.
Basically, here we have no winners: a kinky drug-abusing hippie(the grandpa), a pretentious jumpy speaker(the father), a smoking desperate housewife(the mother), a listless out-of-love gay scholar(the uncle), an ambitious silent brother and finally Olive, a plain-looking pre-mature seven-year-old girl.
It’ll be boring to keep nagging about losing and how to lose. LMS spotlights human beings’ reactions to a set of chaos. At moments of disillusions, this dysfunctional family choose to move on and forget about the pains and the past. These sorry but laughing-to-tears moments are Uncle’s failing suicide, Brother’s vow to silence, Father’s boastful fallacy about almost anything, the microbus’ interval breakdown, Uncle’s embarrassment of running into his ex, the bankruptcy of Father’s biz plan, Grandpa’s sudden death, again, Brother’s discovering himself as color blind and finally, Olive’s outrageous performance as a finale…Such are days of our lives, to name just a few.
As the audience, you laugh with them, and shed tears with them because you see your own lives in this film. People are so apt to be unhappy.
Even if you’ve already been a millionare, just imagine one day you get a little problem, you will be troubled and annoyed. That is, even if you have 1,001 reasons to be happy, yet with only one tiny little nuisance, you will be sad or pessimistic. That is human nature.
LMS teaches us how to deal with our failure and to move on. There could be one day when the one you love would walk away because of somebody else, when your well-designed strategy failed to attract investors or clients, when the elaborately-prepared dinner pissed off the senior, when your dearest family left with saying goodbye, when there were only a slim chance for your dream of a lifetime, when everybody laughed at your art deco. We have to keep punching. Grandpa encourages Olive by saying “A real loser is someone who’s so afraid of not winning he doesn’t even try. ” We lose with dignity and pride, most important of all, losers with dreams and action are not real losers.
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