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 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 Imad F @Imadf May 10 went to see it based on strong reviews. disappointing work. yes the acting is good, and yes the tone of the narrative feels grounded / more authentic than not. but boy, the writing needs help. so is the directing. what happens if you shlep together most cliches from the high school coming of age bezillion movies of the past? you only need to add DEI twists to each stereotype and you get 'Lady Bird'. That is no achievement of any sort (sorry 'big' reviewers!) sooo many recycled cliches but no artistry to the connective tissue of the so-called story. Directing consistently feels (just like the writing) - repeat - a shlepping of loose stereotypical scenes with no strong thread pulling you in, unlike what a sound story does & feels natural. I wanted to like it, the director/writer made it impossible :( See more Alfredo S. @alsuarez Apr 22 Es entretenida pero a la vez se siente un poco que le falta esa chispa, ese conflicto. Saoirse Ronan esta magnífica aquí y sin duda alguna es el alma de la película. See more Les N @Vegas628 Apr 16 It has a very high rating... wondering why? See more Divya K @RT13043596 Apr 2 Lady Bird This is not just a story of a teenage girl; it speaks for every parent who works until the end of their days. A mother who works two shifts manages the family and prepares meals for everyone. And despite losing his job, a depressed father manages to handle his daughters' college fees. A brother who looks after his girlfriend and works in a departmental store. Finally, a daughter who is ashamed of her family!! She is not only disgusted with her social status. Nevertheless, she was embarrassed of her own identity, her name 'Christine.' A name is the only identity that we receive from our parents, which we should be proud of, but for Lady Bird, it's a mirror of truth. That separates her from her own delusional world. See more Read all reviews

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