Absolutely not a fan of this movie when it came out (I was 17 and still living at home).
Now that I’m 25 and moved away from home, I found myself begging Lady Bird not to do it, not to say that to her mom because she will regret it. And I knew I was really talking to my younger self. Hindsight is 20/20, and growing older and wiser in your relationship with your mother is the most absolute and painful example of this.
Yeah, that hurt.
When Sam talks about wishing someone had treated her with love and care, I get the worst pain in my chest and uhh, yeah, that’s womanhood I guess!
‘I’m not a bulimic. I’m a bulim-ist.’
Look, many people much smarter than me have written great reviews. What I’ll say is this; if you’ve watched this movie, clearly you invested a good chunk of time. Spend a little more reading the actor and director interviews if you’re seeing this as anything less than one of the greatest movies of our era. By the intermission I was already of this opinion, but after finishing it and finding those articles, I understood the choices they made so much…
This movie encapsulates the feeling I had as a child, when I found it so easy to explain away my parent’s responsibilities as contempt for me. Seeing it as a young adult brings about many more complex and melancholic feelings, but also a sense of appreciation and longing for simpler times.
