What Is The Theme Of Parenting In Little Miss Sunshine Movie
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Little Miss Sunshine is a black comedy film that portrays a scattered family that slowly bonds throughout the course of the film. It shows how parenting in the incorrect ways can lead to negative results on the children and how easily these mistakes can be fixed with the right timings and circumstances, in the movie's case it was a trip to California. The movie depicts the interactions of a broken family but was contrasted by the interactions near the end where this same group of people had become much closer and would be considered more as a family than the before. The parenting topics explored and depicted in this film are the types of family, parenting styles, and attachment theory. These topics are displayed as to showed to inform the viewer about these topics. …show more content…
The movie shows a family that consists of the nuclear family, with the addition of one grandparent and one extended member. Between these people, Dwayne, the son of the mother, is the stepson of the father, which is a blended family relationship and uncle Frank is the brother in law of the father. The movie also hinted at a once potential LGBT family going on with the uncle and one of his students.
According to a certain definition of a family(Marvin Zuker’s), these band of people was not a family legitimate family in the beginning due to there being almost no emotional connections between a lot of the members. But over the course of this film, these people interact together more frequently and depended on each other either financially or emotionally which defines them as a family by the end of the
Little Miss Sunshine is a black comedy film that portrays a scattered family that slowly bonds throughout the course of the film. It shows how parenting in the incorrect ways can lead to negative results on the children and how easily these mistakes can be fixed with the right timings and circumstances, in the movie's case it was a trip to California. The movie depicts the interactions of a broken family but was contrasted by the interactions near the end where this same group of people had become much closer and would be considered more as a family than the before. The parenting topics explored and depicted in this film are the types of family, parenting styles, and attachment theory. These topics are displayed as to showed to inform the viewer about these topics. …show more content…
The movie shows a family that consists of the nuclear family, with the addition of one grandparent and one extended member. Between these people, Dwayne, the son of the mother, is the stepson of the father, which is a blended family relationship and uncle Frank is the brother in law of the father. The movie also hinted at a once potential LGBT family going on with the uncle and one of his students.
According to a certain definition of a family(Marvin Zuker’s), these band of people was not a family legitimate family in the beginning due to there being almost no emotional connections between a lot of the members. But over the course of this film, these people interact together more frequently and depended on each other either financially or emotionally which defines them as a family by the end of the