Little miss sunshine

The man with the black hair is seen constantly rolling his eyes and all the older characters seem to resent him e.g. when the little girl says the man is weird for being gay the grandpa say “well that’s one word for it”. The music is quite sad and it gets louder as we go deeper in the trailer, which suggests that the tension is rising within the family. Along with the music there’s a lot of arguing that goes on and some characters are interrupting other characters dialogue. This suggests that their family is a broken family. They could possibly all be going through their own rights of passage.

When the dad says “there was a message in the machine, something about little miss sunshine” the music becomes happy and it builds up all the way up until the little girl screams. After the scream the music that is played seems more fitting for a battle. During the new soundtrack there is a mid-shot of the grandpa and little girl growling. All of these suggest that the family are going to go on an adventure that is going to challenge them, which would be their rite of passage. The mid-shot of the girl jumping up and down and screaming suggest that her being in the beauty pageant is her own happy right of passage because to her it’s a life changing experience. It is only after the happy music starts that we start to see the family outside instead of being cooped up in their house and we start to see happy facial expressions. This suggests that the family’s rite of passage is going to help improve the family and make them happier.