The film Little Miss Sunshine depicts the real life. It tells stories about ordinary people and failures. It is this that touches everyone who watches movies-each of us can see our own shadow in the characters in the film.
"Little Beauty" Olive's family accompanied her to the beauty pageant, and everyone in the family failed. As a trainer of the "law of success", my father's career is on the verge of bankruptcy; As a housewife's mother, she is busy worrying about housework all day; My brother wanted to be admitted to the flight school, but found himself color blind. Qiqi's grandfather was driven out of the nursing home because of drug abuse and lewdness, and died unexpectedly on the road; My uncle who failed to commit suicide met his high-spirited old lover and rival in love ... Finally, Olive failed in the beauty contest.
The characters in Little Miss Sunshine cleverly cover all the people in the society. Little girl Olive, adolescent Nikolai Gogol, middle-aged husband and wife Richard and Cheryl, elderly grandfather, and uncle Frank, a former social elite. Their family is like a mirror, reflecting the exhausted but doomed majority in this society.
However, can the meaning of life be defined by simple failure or success? What is success? What is failure? When we make all efforts, what we get is still what the mainstream people think of as "failure". How should we treat such a result?
This movie makes us think, should we pursue success in the eyes of others in this life? Or should we pursue our dreams and live in our own thoughts?
The film also tells us that life is not just failure and success, no matter what happens, life will continue. What matters is not the ending, but whether we can pursue our ideals persistently.
Just like the example of the French writer Marcel Brewster that Frank told Dwain in the movie-he was a loser before he died, but so what? You just need to do what you like, and you don't have to get approval from others.
In the film, the shabby yellow minibus broke down all the way, just like our life, we constantly encountered various problems. But as long as you want to persist, there is always a way to move on.
At the end of the film, the yellow minibus drove away with the family's loss and laughter in the annoying horn sound. Although Olive failed in the beauty contest, her family found the sunshine of life in the process.