a funny "little miss sunshine" thing

on the lighter side of things, today i went to the movie to escape my parents as they prepared to leave for another rv trip. it's just not fun to be stuck in the middle of their yelling and carrying on while attempting to load up the rv and get it out of the driveway. this is the lighter side...i promise it gets better. not having too many movies to choose from, living in kokomo, with only one movie theatre...i picked "little miss sunshine." it was a movie i had actually wanted to see, but just hadn't gotten to it yet. it is not my desire to give too much of the movie away incase this is something you would like to see. so i will try to limited myself. "little miss sunshine" is a dark comedy about a little girl from new mexico who is given the chance to compete in a california beauty pageant. due to somewhat unrealistic circumstances, the entire family (the girl, brother, mom, dad, uncle, and grandfather) ends up driving out to redondo beach in a vw bus. i walked into the theatre knowing this much. i would guess that the elderly couple who walked in not long after me, the three of us being the only audience for this movie, did not have the same knowledge. i did wonder to myself, upon their entry, do they know this movie is dark comedy...one that would usually be showing in an art house theatre, if there was such a thing in kokomo, indiana? but i settled in to watch the film, and was pleasantly surprised how much i truly enjoyed the movie. it was all about coming to terms with family. as dysfunctional as they sometimes can be, we must make a serious attempt at looking deeper than the first annoying layer, and loving far beyond what we might consider acceptable. and i did not miss the fact that i had gone to this movie to escape my parents...the completely dysfunctional, but completely loved pair. what was also not lost on me was the hugely funny moment at the end of the film when i was contemplating just how much i enjoyed what i had watched and the women of the elderly couple loudly states loudly just how terrible she thought the movie was. too funny! oh, and i love the end of the movie...the talent portion of the pageant...can't touch this!