Barbelith Underground > Film, TV & Theatre > Little Miss Sunshine: huh starts right out with what I was wondering about (in fact I got here via ggl for the movie title plus 'divorce'
...the filmmakers wait until near the end of the film to very indirectly reveal an essential element about the relationship of the teenage son, Dwayne, to the rest of the family.
-It must have been subtle as I'm not sure what you mean and I saw it today! Perhaps unrelated but is it that his mother was previously married, and Olive's dad isn't his dad? I was a little confused about him shouting "divorce" at her when he goes into his screaming purge by the side of the road. me too!
--That was it. Throughout the movie, I couldn't see really why Dwayne was so disconnected (it wasn't even father-son animosity) from his dad while Olive was so attached, but when it was revealed that he's NOT Dwayne's dad, a lot of the character's history came into focus.
---I thought Dwayne screamed "divorce" at his mom in reference to her threats to divorce his dad over the failure-to-launch of his book.
right, I thought this too. does the film answer which of these he means?