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Film Overview - Little Miss Sunshine

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? Discussion The fact that people are always told that working hard or desiring something strongly enough will make them get it is not always true. In many occasions, people take all their time working for something they desire but at last fail to achieve. It is, therefore, not fair because it makes people to blindly put all their efforts and finally fail to succeed; this can cause agony. In the film Little miss sunshine, we get the story of a family who is going through many obstacles as they aim to achieve their desires. This film in a broad way captures the themes of unity, losing and winning (Film Education, 2007). These are brought out on the way the family amidst many individual desires goes on a trip to support the young girl in a beauty pageant. Unity is being manifested when olive learns that she had secured a chance to participate and showcase her talent in the beauty pageant contest. The family has no finance because Olive’s farther is struggling with his career. The family decides to help Olive by accompanying her to the contest in an old van that encountered myriads of mechanical challenges on their way. They, however, helped to ensure that Olive arrives at the venue but was four minutes late (Otto, 2007). When it was her turn to present, her family members except her mother tried to prevent her from participating because they felt that the other participants were much experienced than her and she was likely to get embarrassed. She, however, proceeds to the stage and when the viewers showed a sign of displeasure, they tried to pull her out of stage but the family members shows unity and joins her dance on the stage. Failing is also significantly observed throughout the film. First, Richard who has been trying to put a motivational program that touches on failure and success is so obsessed with this course while making no efforts to make it successful. He blindly base every fears of life expressed in any person as way

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