Hollywood Gerwig Lady Bird Review
Review: The Cinematic Marvels of Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird Andrew Hu
“The only exciting thing about 2002 is that it’s a palindrome,” the titular protagonist complains to her mother in the opening scene of Greta Gerwig’s mesmerising directorial debut. In the year of 2002, seventeen-year-old senior student—née Christine McPherson— christens herself ‘Lady Bird’ in a Catholic high school in Sacramento, California, the hometown from which she inches to escape to “where culture is, like New York.” From start to finish, Gerwig’s solo flight is a riveting, poignant and brutally honest coming-of age dramedy that seamlessly captures the last bittersweet moments of adolescent life on the cusp of dawning adulthood, and offers a sincere, terrific roller coaster of a tale for fanatics and casual watchers alike.
For Lady Bird, Gerwig’s big-screen perfection is the result of a wholly original, carefully crafted script rooted in her Midwestern upbringing. She balances between the wacky and the sentimental—some parts are riddled with lively …show more content…
Marion is overbearing and judgemental, while ‘Lady Bird’ dwells in a world of ideals. Their relationship brims with conflict, grudges, and a whole lot of bickering. On the surface, their bond seems antagonistic, almost toxic in nature. We see them flinging insults and taking the mickey out of each other, when really what hides beneath their rocky bond is an underlying sense of unrequited love. We marvel at Gerwig’s cinematic subtlety at painting this powerful mother-and-daughter dynamic—what was at first vicious rows between the two soon transitioned, with the snap of a finger, into something radically different when both mother and daughter picked out the same dress at the same time on a shopping spree. It’s these minutiae that tug at our heartstrings and keep us wanting for
“The only exciting thing about 2002 is that it’s a palindrome,” the titular protagonist complains to her mother in the opening scene of Greta Gerwig’s mesmerising directorial debut. In the year of 2002, seventeen-year-old senior student—née Christine McPherson— christens herself ‘Lady Bird’ in a Catholic high school in Sacramento, California, the hometown from which she inches to escape to “where culture is, like New York.” From start to finish, Gerwig’s solo flight is a riveting, poignant and brutally honest coming-of age dramedy that seamlessly captures the last bittersweet moments of adolescent life on the cusp of dawning adulthood, and offers a sincere, terrific roller coaster of a tale for fanatics and casual watchers alike.
For Lady Bird, Gerwig’s big-screen perfection is the result of a wholly original, carefully crafted script rooted in her Midwestern upbringing. She balances between the wacky and the sentimental—some parts are riddled with lively …show more content…
Marion is overbearing and judgemental, while ‘Lady Bird’ dwells in a world of ideals. Their relationship brims with conflict, grudges, and a whole lot of bickering. On the surface, their bond seems antagonistic, almost toxic in nature. We see them flinging insults and taking the mickey out of each other, when really what hides beneath their rocky bond is an underlying sense of unrequited love. We marvel at Gerwig’s cinematic subtlety at painting this powerful mother-and-daughter dynamic—what was at first vicious rows between the two soon transitioned, with the snap of a finger, into something radically different when both mother and daughter picked out the same dress at the same time on a shopping spree. It’s these minutiae that tug at our heartstrings and keep us wanting for