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Andy buckley ladybird8/31/2023 When I was in high school, I wanted more than anything to go to Sarah Lawrence. My sister had to let go of her anger, and my mom had to let go of her fear. I can't speak to your specific situation, but it took my sister moving out and gaining her own perspective away from my mom for their relationship to improve, and it still took several years after that for them to really "get along". I saw the exact same thing happen with my mom and sister, who are very alike and clashed all the time, but it wasn't because there wasn't love there, it was just that there was a lack of patience and compassion to go along with it. Lady Bird's mother cares SO MUCH about her, about her future and her safety and yes, even her happiness, that it has turned into this convoluted, obsessive, unhealthy pressure. I think the line was, "Have you considered they might be the same thing? Love and attention?" I think the scene with the nun talking about the college essay was really pivotal, where she describes Lady Bird's obvious love of Sacramento. I'm 27 and I felt like I understood both sides, somewhat. It's a relatable, fun movie but I don't see why it's getting so much high praise compared to, for example, The Big Sick (which is getting high praise in its own right but like isn't breaking RT records despite being more original and just as relatable to certain crowds) I have some pretty big pacing and writing problems with it, especially in the last act of the movie where, at one point, they seemingly drop every single subplot and rush through Lady Bird going off to college and having her first New York experience. It's a solid movie with stellar performances, performances that lift it passed the mediocrity of the script and directing. But I also saw it with a girl who's right in the target demo and she seemed to absolutely hate it, which I found odd considering how universally praised it's been. I'm not a girl so maybe I'm not intended as its target audience, but I did relate to it in that it did remind me of my own relationship with my parents, and certainly my sister's. Okay serious last thing but who knew the guy who wrote Bug and Killer Joe could play like the most charming, cuddly dad in movie history? Last thing this is probably my favorite film of the year (check back with me in a week to see where I feel then) and if Saoirse and Gerwig could make do like a Before Trilogy thing and just make a film Lady Bird about Lady Bird every 10 years that would just be the best. I think we are finally having directors reflecting on the more poppy teen romances and trying to make something more grounded and honest. What a perfect way to end a film.Ĭan we just point out we are in a quiet amazing time for teen movies this decade? Easy A, The Spectacular Now, Diary of a Teenage Girl, The Edge of Seventeen and now I think the best of them yet Lady Bird. I also grew up in kind of a boring town but they way she talked about driving it for the first time and relating it her mom was so touching. Wasn’t even expecting it, just a very perfect kind of melancholy. Or the anarchist kid who’s still going to a private high school. I laughed so hard at the JV coach becoming the drama teacher and they way he was still like a coach to them. Man having gone to Catholic high school, everything was just so dead on perfect. Just a beautifully orchestrated, loving, tender film about growing up and realizing that your parents are people too. The awkward scenes at the Catholic school, the way that Kyle first mentions his father's cancer, and the scene where Lady Bird's dad was just playing solitare while Lady Bird and her mom fought all had me bent over laughing. I was expecting it to be funny, but not nearly as funny as it actually was. It was also just a surprising hilarious film altogether. It's a welcome trend for me and has changed my opinion on both of those songs. Taking a song that we've heard before and using it in a stereotypical way at first and then using it later on in the film to help get to the emotional core. It reminded me a lot of the use of "Drops of Jupiter" in the movie Other People. My favorite example of it was the use of "Crash Into Me". This movie perfectly encapsulated that time in so many scenes throughout the movie, doing it hilariously so every time. I love that we are now getting at a point where we can have early 2000s period pieces.
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