Lady Bird proves that Greta Gerwig - in the directing debut - understands and is able to visualize what kind of memory will be the place we love. In Lady Bird, the scene painted the room, covering old streaks (past) with new colours (future), sentimental feel.

Even Sam Levy's cinematography with grainy colour texture looks like a memory renaissance, an impression that is not so prominent when watching a movie on a small laptop screen. Visiting Lady Bird for the second time on the big screen, either visual aspect, pacing, a line of dialogue, emotion or acting, the quality jumped dramatically. About three or four times I was made to tears by the events that had been witnessed before, which confirms two points: 1) There is always something new to be absorbed in a movie, 2) All movies should be watched in a movie theatre, though not a bombastic blockbuster.

Although the movie "just" tells a high school girl from Sacramento named Christine McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) who is not satisfied with his life. He considers Sacramento dull and dreaming of continuing college in New York as "the place where culture is". Although the mother (Laurie Metcalf) strictly forbids the fear of terrorism after the tragedy of 9/11 (the film set in 2002) plus economic factors, the girl does not care. Not only about the place of residence, he was not satisfied with both parents. Feeling his mother always opposed his wish also refused to be escorted to school by the father (Tracy Letts) in shame.

Maybe that's why he insisted on being called Lady Bird. "I give it to myself. It's given to me, by me ", he says. A strange name, but it certainly stands out and sounds special. Lady Bird wants to be all special, including relationships, romance, and sex. Whenever the time, so teenagers especially when high school. Want to be the coolest, cutting-edge, the centre of everything, despite making it selfish and conformist. Lady Bird had kicked her best friend, Julie (Beanie Feldstein), to hang out with Jenna (Odeya Rush), the most popular student in school. Mindset, passion, to how to look at nuns in Catholic high school where he went to school was he changed to fit with Jenna.

Gerwig not only understands memory, as well as teenage behaviour in the search period of identity. That understanding is evident in his semi-autobiographical manuscript. Gerwig was smartly composing a series of intriguing sentences between his moving grooves without ever lingering in a single point, but enough to give the audience time to digest them. A dynamic combination of Gerwig directing and image editing Nick Houy, as well as the emotions and attitudes of his characters that often change quickly, let alone related to the interaction of Lady Bird and her mother. Once upon a time both of them could quarrel about the "way of dragging", then a moment later compact admire the beauty of a dress. Or suddenly jump from a car that was walking after complaining about listening to the song.

Gerwig put great attention to the moment of kinship, devoting all the taste to channel it to the audience. His efforts were successful, certainly without forgetting the services of players, especially Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf. The reason I suggest to visit Lady Bird again on the big screen is one for Ronan's sake. His acting details can be observed thoroughly. The way he shouted, stared in awe, ran, laughed, even just chewing snacks, very enticing, funny, yet authentic. No need at length to describe how great Metcalf is. Simply look at his expression when driving ahead of the end, and try to hold back tears. 

RATING (9/10)

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