In the movie, "Lady Bird", who is in adolescence, has to "hide" her other characters in different films (the pastor asks the heroine's mother to help hide his thoughts, the father wants to hide his depression, and the ex-boyfriend wants to hide his Sexual orientation, even mothers have to hide their love for their daughters), will be more forthright and emotional; she is young and rebellious, and Sacramento, who looks simple and often lit by the sun, or the atmosphere she reads The repressed missionary school (at the beginning of the film, "Lady Bird" is shown to be "well-mannered"), and her family, who has little private space for her, seems out of place or a little "opposed"; and this The "opposition" also existed between her and her mother. The restless "Lady Bird", like wildfire, cannot be fixed in one place. At the beginning of the film, after she and her mother listened to the "Grapes of Wrath" tape together, she went from getting along peacefully to arguing with each other, and then she suddenly jumped out of the car because she couldn't stand her mother's words; Surrounded by a variety of clothing styles, and surrounded by shirt racks that reflect the characters' emotions (see the picture below), "Lady Bird" went from being dissatisfied with her mother to when she saw a beautiful long dress, she suddenly became happy. The changes are all a reflection of her ups and downs, fluctuations, and repetitions, which are often seen in young people's emotions.
And "Lady Bird"'s love path in the film is indeed not smooth. She first meets a richer, gentler, and does not cross the line to her casually, but she is later found to be gay; then she meets a boy Uninhibited, charming, self-thinking person, but turned out to be a playboy. These two relationships made "Lady Bird"'s beautiful imagination or hope shattered like a vase, and affected the turning point of the plot. It also gave her, who ran away later, that the "new world" may not be as she expected. A kind of "intertextual" relationship was formed. Of the two predecessors of "Lady Bird", one appears to be "traditional", but his choice of love is beyond our expectations; the other appears to be rebellious, but his romance meets our expectations. Timothée Chalamet, who plays the latter, casts a slut who can read books on the atrocities of American imperialism against aboriginal people, and "swear that his words are not astonishing", but he is essentially mediocre. role, played convincingly.
In addition to love, the film also has a lot of space, on the description of friendship. "Lady Bird" itself seems to be inseparable from a fat girl friend. The two went to school together and entered the theater together. When the fat girl friend was singing "interview", "Lady Bird" also showed a tight and somewhat relieved expression to her. But with the "intervention" of the rich female classmate Jenna, "Lady Bird" also parted ways with her fat girl friend, and even quit the troupe, and in order to "close" to Jenna, she went to help her take revenge and spoof the nun who was good to her. . "Lady Bird", like her name suggests, wants to fly to high places, and even making friends has become a high society; but she is obviously not used to the air of the sky, and finally returns to the ground, back to her true best. A good fat girl friend. "Lady Bird"'s "turning around" heralded her growth, heralding that she would see more clearly the true beauty in the dark behind the dazzling imagination and the fire of hope.
The key point of the movie "Miss No Bird" is the family relationship between the heroine and her mother. The dialogue scene of "Lady Bird" trying on clothes is well written and has a finishing touch. The mother, played by Laurie Metcalf, often does not agree with or implements her daughter's thoughts, but will give unpleasant advice (such as not appreciating her daughter's favorite dress); although this will lead to her daughter's dissatisfaction, But in my heart, "Lady Bird" knew that her mother loved her. We may all have experienced such subtle emotions in reality. For example, I and my mother often do things according to their own wishes, do not understand each other, and are prone to conflicts. The picture of the mother and daughter sleeping in the same bed at the beginning of the film (see the picture below) implies the "opposition" or mirror relationship between the two sides, but with the awakening of "Lady Bird", she knows/aware of her mother The tolerance behind them and their true care for themselves, the two are finally tied together like the scene where the daughter switches to the mother driving in Sacramento.
At the end of the film, although "Lady Bird" flew away from her hometown as she wished (the scene of the plane taking off is quite meaningful), she misses the past and recognizes herself; she doesn't need to hide her origin/identity any more and accept herself back Christine, whose real name is Christine, seems to wake up in a drunken (sweet dream) in the film, see (return) the real world, and reconcile with her original self. Christine went from hating the ceremonies of the church school to entering the church on her own initiative; from wishing to leave her homeland as soon as possible, to now really falling in love with her hometown, her gradual recovery of "roots" also marks her (or your (or me) rebelliousness will be constantly volatilized in the process of growth.
There are no fancy elements in this film, just like the diary of a girl whose sentences are written in bland and a little running account style, but it is not pretentious, not exaggerated and empty. It seems to be everyday and trivial, but the emotions contained in it are slowly accumulating, gathering water into a trickle, pooling into a sea, and echoing the previous song "This Eve of Parting" by John Hartford at the end of the film. That scene of driving in the beautiful Sacramento, albeit brief, made me burst into tears.
"Miss No Bird", which is full of real life, has the advantage of being shot naturally, but like in the movie, in order to take care of the racial topic mentioned before, or to arouse tolerance and love for the mother, the heroine is arranged to be drunk. After waking up to see a pair of Asian mother and son, it seems a bit deliberate; and the mother was reluctant to take her daughter on the plane at the beginning, and when she drove away and turned back to the airport, the part where she released her emotions was "designed" a little bit. sensational. But "design" itself is not a problem. For example, the heroine is sad because of the loss of her first night in Playboy, but she can follow her in her mother's car to pick her up (in the small car space in the film, the character's emotions are constantly changing) ), the two consecutive scenes of finding solace express the main point of the film - the shattering of good hopes and the hated ones are not necessarily what they thought, and they were "designed" to not show any traces. The movie "Miss No Bird" contains a lot of conflicts, but it is filmed so warmly and warmly. Like the rainbow wave candy you have eaten before, it makes you recall or nostalgize your youthful years, and it also makes you continue to pursue. Audiences who want to fly up can stop temporarily and look back at all that is worth cherishing behind them.
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