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 Marco L @decatur555 5d Lady Bird does something extraordinarily difficult: it makes an ordinary teenage life feel completely important without ever inflating it. Greta Gerwig builds Christine through tiny choices, arguments, friendships, embarrassment about money, first relationships and the desperate desire to leave Sacramento. Saoirse Ronan is wonderful because Lady Bird is never idealized; she is funny, selfish, vulnerable, cruel, confident and lost, often within minutes. Laurie Metcalf is equally brilliant, and their mother-daughter relationship gives the film its emotional center: love and conflict existing at exactly the same time. Gerwig's writing and editing are so precise that almost nothing feels unnecessary. There are no grand speeches and no artificial drama. Just people, moments and the realization that sometimes we only understand what home means after leaving it. It looks simple. It is anything but. For me, it is perfect. See more Thyaagu C @Thyaagu Aug 4 Teenage chaos bottled with remarkable honesty. So simple, yet so emotionally rich! See more Jack F @MovieFan111 Aug 3 It was a really down to earth movie that didn’t sugar coat the events/situations. I just couldn’t relate to any of them. But overall really good. See more Logan R @RT30853336 Jul 25 Love this movie. I want to die everytime I watch tho. Lady bird and her mom have a dynamic that's devastatingly realistic 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 Read all reviews

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