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Lady Bird Movie Review

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Review for the film " Lady Bird"

Streaming On: Amazon Prime Video

Runtime: 1 Hour 36 Minutes

Certificate: A

Released: 02-03-2018

Genre: Comedy Drama

Similar To: For Here Or To Go, Ideal Home, Uncle Drew, Madea’s Witness Protection

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CAST & CREW

Jake McDorman

Lucas Hedges

Timothee Chalamet

Tracy Letts

Kathryn Newton

Laura Marano

Saoirse Ronan

Greta Gerwig

Scott Rudin

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Producer:

Scott Rudin

Evelyn O Neill

Eli Bush

Music Director:

Jon Brion

Editor:

Nick Houy

Director:

Greta Gerwig

Supporting Actress:

Laura Marano

Saoirse Ronan

Kathryn Newton

Costume Designer:

April Napier

Co-Producer:

Jason Sack

Director of Photography:

Sam Levy

Executive Producer:

Lila Yacoub

Line Producer:

Alex G Scott

Casting Director:

Heidi Griffiths

Allison Jones

Still Photographer:

Merie Weismiller Wallace

empty:

Paul Hsu

Visual Effects Supervisor:

Andrew Lim

Screenplay Writer:

Greta Gerwig

Production Designer:

Chris Jones

Set Decorator:

Traci Spadorcia

Makeup Artist:

James Freitas

Hair Stylist:

Aubrey Marie

Meghan Heaney

Stunt Coordinator:

Chris O Hara

Set Dresser:

Lesli Lytle

Sound Mixer:

Amanda Beggs

Boom Operator:

Scott Bardolf

Gail Carroll Coe

Sound Editor:

Nicholas Schenck

Production Assistant:

Dana Nelson

Supporting Actor:

Tracy Letts

Lucas Hedges

Timothee Chalamet

Jake McDorman

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Lady Bird is one of the most inspiring stories about love, life, relationships, and growing up that you’ll ever see.

Plot

The story revolves around the 17-year-old steadfast, opinionated, and adventurous Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson as she finishes her last year in school, and will move on to college. The turbulent relationship with her mother, her experiments with love and friendship, her desire to move to a place with culture, her apparent love for her city, and her need to have some adventure in life is what the story is all about. The story takes place in Sacramento, California in the year 2002- 2003.

Analysis

Just like a ladybird, which is neither an insect nor a bird, Lady Bird hangs on the cusp of a coming of age tale, and a didactic story about growing up. The tale is intrinsically a universal one which very gracefully shows the need of a young girl to experience life, culture and to step out of the restrictions imposed on her, to do things that surpass the ordinariness of the everyday life. The young generation can relate to a movie like this. Writer-Director Greta Gerwig’s strength lies in the fact that she drew on her experiences for inspiration, and showed us the world from a girl’s perspective who has a thirst for freedom, to be recognized, to not miss out on the big, and seemingly fun things in life. The movie also explores Lady Bird’s relationship with her mother. Familiarity breeds contempt and that we are particularly hard on our family members, and the film explores that in abundance. When her mother, Marion, sees Christine, she sees herself in her and is particularly stern and hard on her. They are both high spirited and stubborn, and their father is the one who almost always gets stuck between them as a pacifier. While exploring the life of the young girl, the film oozes hilarity as well. It is in the subtle details that Gerwig wins out. The film is about finding out who you are, where you belong, and what your role is in this life. The background score and the songs emphatically bring out some of the vivid moments in the film. Gerwig’s storytelling and the excellent cinematography makes it a worthy Oscar nominee for the big three: Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actress.

Star Performance

The script is immaculately written with emotion dripping out, and hence very well acted out. Gerwig is very much the star of the movie. Saoirse Ronan Saoirse Ronan is an Irish- American actress. She w >> Read More... , who plays Christine, proves with her performance that she is one of the most formidable actors at present. She brings out the Lady Bird in her so exactly that you look at the putative stereotypes in the film with such a refreshing perspective. Laurie Metcalfe as the mother shines no less, sometimes even more than Ronan. She makes us sympathize with herself and tugs at our hearts.