Lady Bird

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Drake 08/28/2023 A coming-of-age teen dramedy, from the POV of a sub-upper-middle-class Catholic white millennial from California—so I could plenty empathize, and I do appreciate Greta Gerwig representing our generation on the screen, but those intersectionalities mean the conflicts can only be so much, that they're all of a nature of which they'll sort themselves out with the passing of time, and so many dramatic scenes based on them come off as melodramatic performances from the temporality of a teenager (when there's so time & again a dipping POV following the mother, who should be wiser). All that said, the writing is a quite competent Hollywood 3-act screenplay, with plenty of chuckle-inducing lines, multiple tear-rendering deliveries of monologue-y lines, and a rollicking story to fill a feature-length. Watching in 2023 a film from 2017 set in 2002-03 is uncanny, but this is a worthy addition to the canon for the 21st-century's progression of what John Hughes could muster in the '80s, and the hipster touches (e.g. the Joan Didion epigraph the local band) and depictions of life for an adolescent in the '00s stirred in me that romantic yearning for a simpler time of pre-cynic enjoyment of social living. A full dose of emotional content to invest one's bit of time into. See more may T @RT52808082 Jun 28 This film is a cinematic masterpiece. I cried at the ending. There are no words to describe the feeling you get at the end when she exits the cathedral. Truly a beautiful movie that I will think about until the day I die. It captures what it's like to be diamonds in a rhinestone world. Lady Bird makes a statement. See more Hao Ian L @HaOiAn Jun 28 Gerwig offers a raw coming-of-age story that doesn't shy from showing the stone-cold, hard-hitting reality of growing up, with plenty of humor, heart, and melancholy portrayed with much authenticity. See more Dr. Sina W @RT65098475 Jun 13 In times of useless movies, this is a tiny little gem, bright like a supernova. If you don't love this film, you propably never were a teenager. See more @RT79684595 Jun 12 Very boring plot, but both the acting and directing was decent. Sadly any sort of "conflict" if one can call it that is heavily clichéd. Do not watch. See more Kristofer K @kbkaizer May 14 A coming of age story exploring the pressures of life growing up in lower middle class America in a private school environment. Must see. See more Read all reviews

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