The movie "Little Miss Sunshine," directed by Valerie Faris and Johnathan Dayton, is about a family who drives across the country to bring the youngest daughter of the family, Olive, to the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant. It touches upon not fitting into society's expectations and the struggles families take on to help their children.
This movie shows how Olive was reacted to by people watching the pageant: they laughed, seemed creeped out by her, and didn't think she belonged there at all just because she didn't fit the average look or style of someone who would typically be at these kinds of events. Really, Olive loved doing pageants her way. This movie really showed that even if you don't win, as long as you have fun doing what you're doing, you'll be successful in one way or another. The movie also explores stigmas surrounding suicide. Olive's uncle is staying with them after a failed suicide attempt, and his brother-in-law especially, takes every opportunity he can to insult or bring him down regarding his suicide attempt or weaknesses. This showed how many people view people with depression or other mental illnesses. This movie comes with its very funny moments as well as heartwarming and eye opening, and I encourage all interested to view it at least once.
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