Hitting the Pavement

Rating: Null/10 (5 February 2007)

I'm guessing that I've started to revert to a concrete-operational level. Or I just don't like the ick that passes for art.
Little Miss Sunshine is just that, icky. There's a good message involved in this flick--"Losers are those folks too afraid to try." Yet, by the end of the film, you've been exposed to some of the more unpleasant characters you're going to see for awhile and you're going to want to shower, repeatedly.
I'm so middle class dull that I have trouble putting myself in the position of a viewer who found this film much more than ugly, a story of a highly dysfunctional family on a road trip to put their youngest member, a second grader in a beauty pageant. I find the whole concept of abusing children by making them up like dwarf-hookers nauseating, and that's not the main reason Little Miss Sunshine gave me the creeps.
Am I missing something here? Should I put my Middle America, Red State sensibilities aside and embrace LMS as . . . art? You figure it.
I'm going to revel in my provincialism by watching something bourgeois and leave the Indie, cutting edge stuff to the folks in the Blue States.