In my opinion, youth films can be divided into three categories:
Dog blood type, find a bunch of handsome men and beautiful women to sleep in, have a big belly (in China, it can be changed to a mountain without edges, heaven and earth, as appropriate), fan a few ears and scrape, it is very lively.
Pure type, in those years, we xxx together, the sun is full of soft light, the goddess is perfect, the energy is inexhaustible, and the memories are always the best.
A hypocritical, middle-class child who has no worries about food and clothing, but suffers from depression all day long, doesn't deal with anyone, and is the most distressed person in the world.
When I first saw the synopsis of the film "Miss Bird", I classified it as hypocritical. An idyllic middle-class girl from Sacramento, California, has so many troubles to make a movie? Look at the children of Syria and Afghanistan, even in the poor mountainous areas of our country...
After watching the film, I realized that my categorization of it is exactly similar to the mother's point of view in the film. It is true that the suffering of middle-class girls in Sacramento cannot be compared with that of children in poor and war-torn areas objectively, but this comparison is not fair to the individual. Everyone's experience is different and tolerance is different. Otherwise, why is depression more frequent in affluent areas?
If I were forced to classify it, I would classify it as "the least hypocritical teen film". When we feel the same way, it is not hypocritical, but moved.
Another hit of this year's Oscars, "Three Billboards", many people will be impressed by its exquisite and complete story, and want to deeply analyze its succession and transformation, the clues of the three billboards, the collision of the three protagonists, the three The suicide note advances the turning point of the plot. But after watching "Miss Bird", it is difficult for us to summarize the plot. It seems that there is no main line, but it is a little messy. However, this kind of "disorganization" has a magical effect. It seems to be like the old pair of cotton slippers in the hometown's study. It is so comfortable to wear, and it also evokes infinite memories of myself.
I attribute this to the subtlety of the female director. This delicateness has smoothed out the difference between a small inland city in California and my hometown on the coast of China. This is my story, our story.
The title of the film "Lady Bird" is the name given to herself by the high school girl. She doesn't like her Christian name Kristin. The meaning of "Lady Bird" is also very clear. Lady means lady, a mature and independent person. People who don't like to be disciplined as a child; Bird is a bird, she longs to spread her wings and fly to freedom. So I prefer the Taiwanese translation of the film "Lady Bird", which more reflects the spirit of the film.
Giving yourself a name and insisting that others must use it is the most fundamental kind of rebellion against your parents. The youth of each of us is also written in rebellion. My own name seems to be quite special now, and it is not tacky at all; but when I was in elementary school, I often wished I had a more domineering name.
We have been taught not to compare ourselves, but we can't help showing off and vanity. For example, when I was a child, I sat on the back of my parents' bicycles to go to school, and I always secretly envied those classmates who got off the back seat of the motorcycle. This lady bird is also somewhat inferior to her family background. In order to make friends who look cool, she even despises her old best friend, so she can't help lying about it, and in the end, she is naturally ashamed. Ladybird is boldly pursuing the male god in her heart, but just like us, she actually doesn't know what the male (female) god really looks like at all.
The most unbearable thing for Ladybird is the mother who cares about every bit of dust in the corner. We will definitely smile at this. The last person in the world who treats you as an adult will always be your mother. It turns out that the mother in the small inland city of California will also talk about how I worked so hard to raise you all day long, and the daughter's response is "You give me a number, when I grow up, I will earn this money and return it to you, and then ignore it again. you". Although we may not say this to our parents, can you say that you never thought about it that way?
The conflict between Ladybird and Mom is all-round, the most intense of which is where to go to college. Due to various objective and subjective factors, the mother has plans for her daughter, hoping that she can go to school nearby. And in Lady Bird's heart, how can she be compared with mediocre parents. We are born with everything around us that we can no longer be familiar with since we were young. We, who have never left home, instinctively abandon them. "Flying away" has become the solution to any adolescent problem.
When we finally came to the dream metropolis, sat in a shabby dormitory, met countless new companions who could or couldn’t chat, and encountered countless interesting or new things that we didn’t like, it was true that there was plenty of freshness. But there is also an indescribable loss, followed by endless thoughts of the familiar grass and trees in his hometown. On the busy and unfamiliar streets of New York, Lady Bird finally found a familiar shadow of her hometown – a church exactly like her hometown, listening to the hymns she always bored, and at this moment, she was like the hometown she had hated for many years. Reconciled. Instead of us, you won't go to church, but you might get into a hometown restaurant and remember bitterness and sweetness.
This is the growth of everyone. You have to run away and lose something before you can see yourself clearly and reconcile with yourself. Ladybird reconciles with herself, returning to Christine's name. Most of us have done this, but the father silently passed the mother’s crumpled letter to his daughter, and the daughter called home to tell her mother that I love you and truly reconcile with her parents, which most of us failed to do.
Such a trivial growing-up movie is more valuable in authenticity and sincerity, and it doesn’t even cater to Oscar’s slogans and values, and even Lady Bird sneered at the fact that her adopted brother came to Berkeley because of his Mexican-American identity, and his The male god has slogans on his lips all day, but he is a mediocre scumbag.
So, it's not surprising that it can hit us in a foreign country in all aspects (except for the tangle of going to bed, which I don't have such experience due to gender differences). It makes us a little fortunate and moved. It turns out that our own regrets and resentments in our youth are the same in idyllic California, not so lonely.
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