This is Pixar's week.
On the one hand, the word-of-mouth and box office of "Dream Hunting Travels" both shined brightly, and some people even shouted the assertion that "the best animated feature film is scheduled for next year's Oscar".
Meanwhile, a record long held by Pixar was broken.
There is such a movie, which broke the 163 fresh record held by "Toy Story 2" on Rotten Tomatoes and became the highest rated movie in Rotten Tomatoes history.
This terrific movie has an unremarkable title --
Lady Bird
Rotten Tomatoes has a 186 all-fresh score of 8.9.
IMDb 8.4, a staggering 94 points on Metacritic.
Only Nolan's "Dunkirk" can compete with mainstream theatrical films this year.
This is so intriguing.
What kind of movie is it that can be favored by the collective from top to bottom?
First of all, it must be said that the translation of "Miss Bird" is not very accurate.
This is the transliteration of the English title "Lady Bird", "Bird" is the name given to herself by the heroine, and the free translation is "Miss Bird".
"Miss Bird" Christine (Saoirse Ronan) is a high school senior.
She (set) is average in appearance, average in body, average in grades, and average in family background.
To put it simply, she is the ordinary to boring girl.
She lives in Sacramento.
Although the city is expensive as the capital of California, it does not have the sensuality of Los Angeles, the historical accumulation of San Francisco, or even the charming coastline of San Diego.
Behind its solemnity and simplicity, there is an unobstructed dullness.
To put it bluntly, the ordinary to boring city.
Ordinary protagonists, ordinary backgrounds, people and events, just constitute the most important temperament of this film - kindness.
This is a film from a completely civilian perspective, and every inch of its light and shadow is edited from our lives.
It is our story.
The vast majority of us are born ordinary, but everyone is (once) unwilling to be ordinary.
This film tells about the trivial affairs of Christine during her senior year of high school.
Just as she was reluctant to accept the name her parents gave her, she named herself "Miss Bird" and asked everyone to call her that.
Isn't that what we were when we were young?
Literature and art are like "Bright Moon and Breeze", and pretending is like "Flying Dragon with Jade Face". We try to prove how different we are through our online name.
Miss Bird dyes her hair, pretends to be rebellious, and her biggest dream is to escape from her hometown and go to New York, or any famous city on the East Coast - at least a literary and artistic city like Connecticut that is rich in writers.
The meaning of "bird" couldn't be more straightforward—
I hope I can fly out of the cage of captivity like a bird.
This is not what we are about to come of age.
Complaining, even disgusting the hometown where I grew up, I feel that only the bigger world is worthy of the ambition of adulthood.
However, reality is not something that one or two trendy ideas can leverage.
"Mother Bird" (Lauri Metcalf, Sheldon's mother in "The Big Bang Theory") is strongly dissatisfied with her daughter's desire to fly away.
Not just companionship, but a more practical objection is that tuition on the East Coast is too expensive.
The first act of the film presents us with irreconcilable differences.
The mother and daughter were chattering about college issues, and Miss Bird unbuckled her seat belt and jumped out of the car under her mother's scolding.
Jumping is a bit exaggerated...
But, isn't this exactly the portrayal of us slamming the door after arguing with our parents?
Our resistance always starts with our relatives, because in our subconscious, our relatives are not afraid of "offending".
For your viewing experience, I can't reveal more.
Just take this part of the trailer as an example.
In the clothing store, Miss Bird and her mother are arguing again.
But when Mom took a skirt off the shelf, the two instantly forgot to get angry, and seriously... discussed whether the clothes looked good or not.
The forgiveness of relatives is not just "without reason".
The original screenplay title of "Miss Bird", "Mother and Daughter."
But the movie is more than just love.
In an hour and a half, it shows us the warm daily life of a high school student in a panoramic and delicate manner.
In addition to the parents who love to discipline her, she must also have "how is it different from what she thinks" love and friendship.
He made up his mind to have a relationship with the boy he liked, but found that the two treated sex in completely different ways.
Trying to change to become a friend of "cool kids", but find that no matter how hard I try, I can't fit into that circle.
In the end, the one who could comfort himself was the common partner who was lazy in the dormitory together with Ge You, who dipped french fries in ketchup.
Family, love, friendship.
"Miss Bird" vividly portrays the trivial troubles and fortunes of an adolescent girl with unflashy brushstrokes.
Two words to describe this film are sincerity and purity.
Sincerity is not artificial, not adulteration.
It's purely an arrow through the heart.
This may be the reason for the 186 all-fresh reviews.
What needs to be knocked on the blackboard is-
This "Best in Rotten Tomatoes History" is by no means a masterpiece of the past.
On the contrary, it has a very youthful temperament.
The actor was really chosen. One by one, young, can act.
Danny, who plays Miss Bird's first boyfriend, is Lucas Hedges, born in 1996 and under the age of 21.
He was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for "Manchester by the Sea" and is a potential rising star.
In the few scenes, Lucas appropriately plays a bright, bright and talented high school boy who is vulnerable because of some unspeakable problems.
Another boyfriend Kyle played by Timothy Chalamet in 1995.
Not long ago, he won the National Critics Association Award for Best New Actor for his male lead in the same-sex movie "Call Me by Your Name".
In "Miss Bird", he played Kyle, handsome and gloomy, cynical and pretending to be deep, exactly the high school girl we hate and yearn for.
The most worthy of praise is the female No. 1 Saoirse Ronan.
Born in 1994, she was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar at the age of 14, and was nominated for Best Actress last year for "Brooklyn".
Ronan's performance is as subtle as the movie.
Throughout the movie, she has almost no moments of so-called acting outbursts. But whether it's the frown arguing with the mother, the yelling after kissing the male god, or the staring at the teacher who wants to give it but doesn't dare to give it directly.
You can't refuse.
If you are more careful, you will find that in the whole film, Saoirse Ronan appeared without makeup, and her parents were Irish immigrants, she completely lost her hometown accent.
And the director, Greta Gerwig, born in 1983.
"Miss Bird" is her directorial debut.
Not only is she not as deeply astonishing (in fact, narcissistic) like a typical virgin director, she even shows insight beyond her age.
Many people after watching the movie will ask if "Miss Bird" is your autobiography?
Greta has denied it more than once: the plot of the movie didn't happen in her life.
She just smiled and said: I once jumped out of my mother's car, of course, the car was parked.
However, if you don't love this extremely boring hometown, how can you portray a city and a group of people in such a detailed and vivid way under the camera?
Greta said: "Miss Bird" is a movie about "home".
What is home?
Home is the street you walk all at once, home is the mother who is nagging all day, home is the lifeline that you swore to get rid of, but always hold in your hands.
want me to say-
A quiet affection.
Blockbusters let you get out of life, and boring films make you reflect on life.
Miss Bird is neither.
It silently presents an unremarkable story.
But it is precisely in the stories assembled by these trivial things that you begin to understand and cherish life.
(This article was first published on the WeChat public account "Sir Movie")
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