I have to make a compromise at least with Little Miss Sunshine because I was rather exhausted by the review of Dogville. It was a tough writing process. In any case I want to continue the project so I'll write a lot shorter review for LMS which wont be so great because I will briefly tell what was good and what was not. I might do this with a few upcoming films aswell because I want to return to a better state of mind before bursting it all into a longer piece of text like with Dogville. You can PM me on Evageeks (Oz) or IMDb (OzymandiasJL) if you want to discuss about the film I review only briefly.
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Little Miss Sunshine tells the story of a big family (Kinnear, Collette, Carell, Arkin, Dano, Breslin) who decided to drive across the country in a VW bus to take their young daugther to a beauty contest. The story is a nice look at modern and dysfunctional families. Every character is wonderfully colorful and a nice study on certain kind of people: a stubborn man who sticks to his principles, a modern (in terms of upbringing) mom, an angsty teen (this one is one of the best portrayals of the type, seriously), a suicidal gay, a heroin-addicted grandpa who is overly enthusiastic and rude about sex and the energetic young girl. The film has an easy structure in which the family faces one problem after another and try to cope the best they can. In the end all of these problems pile up and turn into a feel-good ending which works well. It has intriguing compositions here and there to set the mood; the editing works just fine; the music is sometimes great, sometimes only decent. None of these aspects is necessarily great, but they work satisfyingly enough. The content is simple, but it has been executed well enough.
Score: 7 out of 10
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