[HW-Listening] Little Miss Sunshine♡

★What is your opinion of beauty pageants? What do beauty pageants do to young girls?
Actually, I am not against beauty pageants although some people criticize it is commercialization of woman. The form and meaning of beauty pageants are changing these days. People think intelligence as well as appearance is very important as a winner of the beauty pageants. If we see the prize winners, we can see their talent through the interview. They can show various activities such as publicity about their own countries. So I think the beauty pageants are not totally negative. It can bring out positive function.
But children’s cases are different. We shouldn’t judge young children by the way they look. They should be regarded as just children. In the movie, Little Miss Sunshine, children’s appearance and acts in the beauty contest such as their dance, pose, makeup and even expression are similar to those of adults. Even they don’t know what they do. We cannot see innocence and purity of children. We need to make certain about concept of beauty to children.


★What is the grandfather’s influence on the boy and the girl? Is grandpa a good person?
In the movie, Little Miss Sunshine, we can hear a lot of bad words from their grandfather. He never cared for children in any situation and just said what he wants to say according to his feeling. Even the children accepted for granted without any consciousness. For example, Olive, young girl in the movie, learned some actions for beauty pageants from her grandfather. It was impossible to think as young girl’s behavior and actually it gave people great shock. The horrible thing is that the girl didn’t know what her action means. She just followed her grandfather’s words and believed him because he is her grandfather. Like this situation, her grandfather had big effect on the children’s lives. So he should have been careful about his every behavior and words.