Anyone who follows my posts knows how much I love movies, Netflix series, HBO, and so forth. I often think how remarkable these films are in reflecting so clearly our world, our society, and our own lives. The lessons they offer can be transformative. In the 2006 movie, “Little Miss Sunshine,” we meet Olive (Abigail Breslin), a precocious and darling 7 year old who dreams of winning a beauty pageant. She is not the beauty queen type though. For one thing she is too smart. She also wears big clunky glasses. And she has a round little tummy and an awkward run. But no child could be more sweet, or more lovable. She belongs to the Hoover family, a cross between the Beverly Hillbillies and the McCallister family in “Home Alone.” Dad (Greg Kinnear) is a struggling, uptight, luckless motivational speaker. Mom (Toni Collette) is a protective, cigarette smoking nurturer. Brother Dwayne (Paul Dano) is a cynical nerd obsessed with Nietzsche and becoming a test pilot for the U.S. Air Force. U
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