I was gonna write up some thoughts on Little Miss Sunshine, but Laurie Toby Edison of body impolitic said pretty much what I would've.
As she notes, to talk about the part I'd (also) wanted to talk about--some rather pointed irony about the grotesque kiddie beauty pageant--inevitably spoils the ending. So I'll just say: if you don't mind spoilers, or if you've already seen it, go check out what she has to say. I'll wait here. The rest of you: it's worth seeing.
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It's pedophilia. I mean the kiddie pageant industry.
The movie I really want to see.
Yeah. Afterwards I remembered some HBO special on them, well specifically one little girl, Swan something, and her stage mom; a documentary following them. I remembered being vaguely horrified but had forgotten details. some googling revealed:
-the mom had spent around $70,000 in pursuit of this dream (no, they weren't wealthy, not. at. all)
-there was a brother or something, istr he ran away sometime during the course of the filming
-as it turns out, the mom died of a heart attack a few years back; Swan and sibling went to live with dad and stepmom
-weirdly, just the other -week,- apparently, now the -father- died. i gather they're living with the stepmom now. something.
very VC Andrews, the whole thing.
and by the way, i may or may not have mentioned utter loathing for pretty much all stage parents.
but people who put their little kids through those beauty pageants: there is a special disembowelling rack in hell.
slight hijack - I had never been to Body Impolitic before - what a great blog she's got!
I haven't seen Little Miss Sunshine yet, but I've heard interesting things about it. (SIDENOTE: I saw Quinceañera this weekend. It's definitely worth the $10.50 and then some.)
oh, cool, yeah, i heard good things.
although i kept first seeing it spelled without the enyay (~) and thought "Quince? Something to do with quinces? huh."
i'm sort of mesmerized by the idea of "The Descent," now, even though i don't like gory, and this is supposed to be both super-scary -and- super-gory.
loved, loved, loved the movie...
Living Dolls is on YouTube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dJ-PvHv1HQ
It rules. In an Angryfreude kind of way.
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