The film “Lady Bird” tells a story of teenager (Saoirse Ronan) navigates a loving but turbulent relationship with her strong-willed mother (Laurie Metcalf) over the course of an eventful and poignant senior year of high school.
What sticks to me about Lady Bird is how it illustrates a coming of age story with no cliche. Instead of focusing on a high school romance, Lady Bird turns the audience toward a mother daughter relationship during adolescence time. The everyday life the mother and daughter are portrayed with such care and details that it leaves the audience with a heartwarming feeling after watching the film.
Lady Bird earns a record breaking 99% on Rotten Tomato. It received widely compliments from everywhere because it relates to some parts of everyone’s life. I personally connect with Lady Bird’s struggle in a Catholic school setting and share her fear of unknown.
The most important theme about Lady Bird is that “love is attention”. It came across when Lady Bird was writing her college essay and the principal points out her that she clearly loves Sacramento, her home, deeply inside, while she often speaks about how she wants to get out of the west coast. It offered me an intriguing perspective that the reason when hate something so much is because we give it so much attention and we actually do care about this thing we hate. When you care about something so much, doesn’t it mean you do love it?
I recommend everyone this movie, especially teenagers. Lady Bird shares many of our happiness, concerns and craziness of adolescents and I believe everyone can find something that speaks to them after watching this movie.
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