![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story follows Lady Bird as she leaves behind theatre and her best friend for what she thinks are bigger and better things. ![]() She does, and this is yet another sideline plot. He can’t come out yet and pleads with her to keep his secret. Why doesn’t Lady Bird talk about sexuality? Lady Bird starts dating a classmate but discovers him making out with another guy. Maybe this is an accurate depiction of early 2000s Sacramento. A school guidance counselor is also black, as is a school priest, but Lady Bird’s classmates are strikingly white. Miguel’s girlfriend is black she almost never talks and goes relatively unnoticed by Lady Bird, who has the egocentrism typical of a teenager. He reveals that he didn’t put his race on his application. After Lady Bird gets rejected from a college, she says it must have been easier for him to get accepted as a person of color. Why doesn’t Lady Bird talk about race? Lady Bird’s adopted brother is Latino (even though he’s played by an actor of Malaysian descent, but that’s a different conversation), and his race is almost never addressed, aside from one heated conversation. Overall, I was left with a burning question: what if Lady Bird had really pushed boundaries? What if the film took its mother-daughter story and complicated it? The film is only as good as it is because of Ronan’s efforts. She’s in tears as she apologizes profusely to her mother in their kitchen after applying to a college across the country without telling her-but what the hell does she have to be sorry for? She grapples with friendships and romantic relationships and various firsts the film offers a story that stays close to the ground and feels real as a result. There are a few moments where Lady Bird feels something so intensely that she can’t contain herself and she just screams. Lady Bird soars because of her performance. Saoirse Ronan perhaps deserves even higher praise. My mom hasn’t said this to me, but my dad recently told me that he sees this quality of hers-the desire to help others improve themselves-reflected in me and how I talk about the world.Īs far as artistry goes, Greta Gerwig certainly deserves high praise. Marion explains that she doesn’t not like her daughter, she just wants her to be the best version of herself she can be. I don’t always know if I’m living up to her expectations. I know my mom likes me, but I don’t know if she always likes exactly who I am or how I do things. Lady Bird feels compelled to ask her mother if she likes her. Lady Bird is relatively close with her mom, but they don’t get along all the time Marion wants the best for her, but they don’t always agree on what that is. Greta Gerwig’s depiction of a mother-daughter relationship is so poignant because it’s so complicated. “Always mad” is of course an exaggeration, but the sentiment feels true when said out loud. In the same breath that Lady Bird says her mom, Marion, “is always mad,” she also says, “she loves me a lot.” This sums up so much of my relationship with my mom as I’ve gotten older: two intense emotions that shouldn’t go together but often do. She has one brother (though mine is younger, not older) whose girlfriend lives with her family. Her mom is set in her ways and her dad is more relaxed. But Lady Bird’s family is strikingly similar to my own. I’m very different from Christine McPherson-or as she’d rather be called, Lady Bird. ![]()
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