Sunday, August 06, 2006

Beat me to it

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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8 comments:

  1. NataliaAugust 06, 2006 10:37 PM

    It's pedophilia. I mean the kiddie pageant industry.

    The movie I really want to see.

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  2. belledame222August 06, 2006 11:03 PM

    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.

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  3. belledame222August 06, 2006 11:05 PM

    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.

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  4. antiprincessAugust 07, 2006 8:30 AM

    slight hijack - I had never been to Body Impolitic before - what a great blog she's got!

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  5. Twanna A. Hines | FUNKYBROWNCHICK.comAugust 07, 2006 10:53 AM

    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.)

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  6. belledame222August 07, 2006 11:05 AM

    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.

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  7. benAugust 07, 2006 11:48 AM

    loved, loved, loved the movie...

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  8. AnonymousSeptember 19, 2006 3:06 AM

    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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