“Lady Bird”: Where Home Is, Where Heart Is
Genre：Comedy/Drama
Director：Greta Gerwig
Cast：Saoirse Ronan、Laurie Metcalf、Tracy Letts、Lucas Hedges、Beanie Feldstein
Viola's Rating：8.7
Adolescence
might be tough for some people, and growing up is always full of good and bad
memories. We don’t really need another “coming-of-age” feature film recently;
not an archetypal work discussing mom-and-daughter issue, “Lady Bird” presents
us the actual life a family normally has and teaches us a lesson on December 1,
2017.
Set
as a comedian drama, “Lady Bird” is not afraid to show you the ugliness of the
titular character’s family because it’s in every family, but at the same time,
just because it feels so authentic and familiar, you laugh along and smile at
the conditions happen in the film. The plot is mainly about an artistically
ambitious seventeen-year-old girl, Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson, comes of
age in Sacramento, California in 2002.
In
the trailer, we see many scenes of Lady Bird and her mom arguing, but the flick
is actually much tender than that. It focuses on not only the confrontation,
disappointment and frustration a parent and an offspring might have, but also
the considerate, intimate and sweet things they do to each other. Not every
daughter has such intense fight with her mom, but there are so many details in
the motion picture that every daughter can relate to.
Addition
to the interaction between Lady Bird and her mom, “Lady Bird” also mentions how
academic performances, friendship and love stories develop at high school and affect
students’ lives. It seems that the movie wants to talk too much at a time, but
actually it balances pretty successfully by connecting all the materials
through “home”.
Dialogues
in “Lady Bird” are bright, simple and not abstract; they’re all clear enough to
let the audience know that we usually ask more from our family members than our
friends, lovers or even strangers. There’s no right or wrong, but the picture
reminds us to pay more attention to our beloved ones. “Love and attention” are
considered as the same thing in “Lady Bird” and apparently that’s the theme.
“Every
family goes through its problems”, and people tend to forget about it. Nobody
says growing up is easy, but even though it’s bittersweet, it’s worth it, and
it’ll become something to remember. Everything we experience will turn into the
soil we absorb nutrients from. After all, pain is for people to taste while
happiness should be swallowed.
“Lady
Bird” guides moviegoers along the protagonist’s last months in high school with
little details such as rebellious adolescence, daddy’s little girl,
mom-and-daughter talk etc. Eventually, both its audience and character knows
that “Where home is, where heart is.
Picture Credit: IMDb
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