Little Miss Sunshine
Dwayne’s experience on the road trip adds to the mosaic critique of American life offered in this film Little Miss Sunshine. He begins this film choosing not to speak at all until he gets into flying jets for the Air Force Academy. He does not even communicate to his family, but through a notepad. While Dwayne meets Frank, their uncle, he asks him who he hangs out with. He writes “I hate everyone.� Then, Frank asks what about his family, and he points out “Everyone.� This is a typical teenage attitude to most American families. When asked to go on the road trip with his family he does not like the idea, and tells his family he will agree to go but will not have any fun. When his grandpa dies, and the mom is crying he writes to Olive to go his mom.
When on the road trip Dwayne finds out he is colorblind. Frank tells him he cannot fly jets if he is colorblind. He is very angry and his family says that they are still his family. He tells them he is not their family, and does not even want to “be� a family. He tells them he hates them. He yells to his mother, she is “divorced,� to his father, he is “Bankrupt,� and to his uncle, “he is “Suicidal� during their road trip. He then apologizes to his family. In the end when his family is at the beauty pageant Dwayne realizes that American life has a cycle, he will do what he loves, and get past what obstacles he has. He also shows he accepts his own family. He tries to protect Olive from all the fake people in the pageant so she will not make a fool of herself. In the end he dances on stage with the rest of his family.