On the Rotten Tomatoes site of the movie "Lady Bird" Greta Gerwig rating is 99 percent. The film about high school student Kristina and her search for her own "me" is a five-time Oscar nominee. I believe that "Lady Bird" is an honest, emotional and smart movie.
If the range of "Oscar" films of this season is compared with a quality bar - one-picture looks like aged whiskey, the other looks like a fancy cocktail, and the third draws on a beer mug, then "Lady Bird" Greta Gerwig looks like a glass of cold spring water. This clean, honest, emotional and intelligent film is similar to its heroine - a high school girl from a California town who dreams of a decent future and doesn’t really believe in his credibility.
In general, his main story is about the problem of a "glass of water", that is, the relationship of generations and gratitude that children, in theory, should be tested for ancestors who stick their whole lives for them. In the first scene, Christina, demanding to be called "Lady Bird", rides in the same car as her mother. They are listening to the radio play on "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck, wiping uninvited tears with emotion, but after five minutes, the conflict sucked from the finger heats up to the point that Christina is thrown out of the car at full speed. Such, of course, in old age will not give anyone a glass of water.
His poor house and dysfunctional parents, his elder brother (he, despite his higher education, plows for low-paid work), his second-hand clothes, his Catholic school, and most importantly - his dubious prospects embarrass Lady Bird: the hope of studying in New York seems unattainable, and she disagrees with less. What is in her power? Is that change the name. However, this, of course, is not enough.
The last year of school - with the first love and loss of innocence, awkward drunkenness and amateur performances, cursing with parents and quarrels with the best friend, failed control and graduation ball. That is the whole story. A bit of "Boyhood", but about a girl. However, the monumental (for all intimacy) Richard Linklater film was good at studying time and country through the prism of individual destinies, and in the chamber “Lady Bird” the action is concentrated in one city and year, the specific post-traumatic 2002: "This year is interesting only for those that he is a palindrome", the heroine irritably states. In addition, the interesting of her native Sacramento, and say it does not work.
The director and screenwriter of the autobiographical "Lady Bird" Greta Gerwig is a peculiar symbol of the generation, the favorite of the east coast hipsters, the muse and co-author Noah Baumbach (Greenberg, Frances Ha, Mistress America). In his paintings, the careless heroines of Gerwig demand mercy and ask for sympathy, betraying personal charisma for justifying purposeless existence, narcissism, capriciousness and infantilism. The mask seemed to stick to the face, something similar could have been expected from Gerwig's own picture, especially since it was shot by the same Sam Levy operator, who constantly works with Baumbach. However, no. Lady Bird, played with a wonderful immersion in the image of a 23-year-old (but seemingly 17-year-old) Saoirse Ronan from "Atonement" and "Brooklyn", is made from another test: she is not trying to play as an adult and is willing to pay any price for to grow up for real. She is not smart for years and is single-minded, absolutely not fixated on herself, is surprisingly generous with emotions, worries about loved ones and seriously wants to achieve something. Although not imagine how.
Independent American cinema "entourage of Baumbach" absorbed obsession: how to accept and love yourself in all its imperfections, how to negotiate with conscience and forgive yourself laziness, weakness, narcissism? "Lady Bird" speaks of something else: not how to forgive yourself, but how to try to peel off everything that is accidental and alien, having reached your "me"This task is already more philosophical than psychological. "Lady Bird" - anything, but not a session of comforting therapy. In the film, more from the classic, complexly structured, although deceptively simple in the structure of the novel education.
https://youtu.be/0ndBL50MhrU[Lady Bird - Official Trailer (Universal Pictures) HD](https://youtu.be/0ndBL50MhrU)
The picture is designed as a kind of mirror labyrinth. Nervous workaholic mother and good-natured, but not out of depression dad (wonderful role of theater actress Laurie Metcalf and playwright Tracy Letts), which Lady Bird does not want to be like. Open good-natured Danny from the drama studio (Lucas Hedges from "Manchester by the Sea") and romantic rocker-misanthrope Kyle (Timothée Chalamet from "Call Me by Your Name") - with one of them, Lady Bird plans to lose his innocence. The closest girlfriend Julie (Beanie Feldstein) and glamorous beauty Jenna (Odeya Rush), forcing Lady Bird to choose a model of behavior. The teachers from the school are the kindest father Leviach (Stephen McKinley Henderson) and Sister Sarah Joan (Lois Smith), whose mentor habits help the main character to understand her relationship with God and the universe. She herself - an awkward girl with pink hair, like a ladybug, flies from place to place, trying to stop and finally understand who needs it and why it lives. She is looking for herself; looking for her and the director with the audience - without false sentimentality and tenderness, with healthy humor and skepticism, but also with genuine tenderness.
In addition, they find the labyrinth empty, and in each mirror only its own reflection. None of us probably grew up in Sacramento in 2002, but it seems that the little banal experiences that Lady Bird went through now belong to us.
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