Evanston: LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
Evanston: LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE is anti-positive thinking, un-Disyneyesque, and un-American. It is also very well done and very funny and very sad.
A synopsis of the plot is not encouraging. Of the six main characters--all members of the same family--four want something very much and each fails to obtain his or her heart’s desire; and one of the other two dies. In the final scene the five surviving family members seem to be driving off into the sunset, but I just realized that in the movie’s context they must be heading east, so they even fail at that.
Alan Arkin won the Oscar as best supporting actor for his role in this movie, and he did a fine job; but I think that the child actress, Abigail Breslin, who plays the title role, was even better.
A movie that I enjoyed much more than I expected.
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After two hot days with late afternoon thunderstorms, Chicago’s weather has returned to the nearly perfect: sunny, scattered low clouds, in the 70ties.
New Zealand, on the other hand, has just had its second “hundred year storm” this year, with Force Twelve wind, torrential rain, downed trees and power-lines, flooding.
Assuming THE HAWKE OF TUONELA is still on her mooring, I am back there next month.
I am beginning to believe in climate change.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007