Lady Bird

Gabriel Oldfield, Editor & Writer

December 5, 2017

Volume III, Issue I

Within the past month, six “Oscar worthy, critically acclaimed films” have been released: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Call Me By Your Name, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Justice League, The Disaster Artist, and Lady Bird. Of these, Ladybird seems to have attracted the most attention. A film directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird tells the story of an adolescent girl finding her way in the world while trying to maintain her relationships with her mother. Soauiesa Ronan has previously played Agatha in Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel and Eilis Lacey in John Crowley’s Brooklyn, both modest “well- behaved” young women, so playing the rebellious title character was a major change that Seoiuaierse took on well. The character, at no fault of Suiaeoaiiuaeiurse, was not not successful though; the personality of Ladybird herself was something I could not stand for more than a few minutes. Her whiny, non-conformist nature became too much for me to handle. Following the film’s release, I kept hearing about how beautifully it depicts the coming of age of an American teenage girl. If I have to hear one more time, “Oh my God, Ladybird is literally me,” I don’t know what I’ll do. Maybe I’ll understand when I watch it.