It seems that the routines before the adolescence films are basically solidified: the awakening of personal consciousness, the display of character, the attempt of various new things, quarrels, more independent expectations, rebellion, intensification of contradictions, separation, and being attacked by life After understanding, release, restore, return.
At first glance, this movie seems to be in this mode, but if you take a closer look, it is a deeper thing, including the meaning of life, the meaning of growth, and even the nerve pain points of American society. In more detail, it is the post-American dream era. Subtle changes in people's mentality, social cognition, etc.
The protagonist Lady Bird was born in Sacramento. She was born in a poor family. She was always ashamed of it. She dreamed of going to a big city one day. Rejecting religious ceremonies, rejecting his annoying brother and mother, like a bird, it always flies towards the place where there is light. Taking the initiative to strike up a conversation with the boys in the opera class, take the initiative to move closer to the rich second-generation circle, and take the initiative to cling to the literary label, which is really what a rebellious adolescent girl did. But the plot that seemed to fall into a cliché did not continue. After she went to college in New York as she wished, just a hangover made her wake up like a dream. She thought she would call out who I am, where am I, where I am Why, Miss Bird, unexpectedly said to herself, my name is Christine, I'm from Sacramento, and I don't think the old days were bad.
The design of Miss Bird's family background is still very real, and the real is more likely to resonate because of it. Unlike domestic youth films, people think that it is someone else's youth from the beginning, while her own youth is a five-year college entrance examination and a three-year simulation. . One of the reasons I can understand her is that our family’s situation is very similar to hers. Her parents are old, their jobs are not good, their income is meager. I have another idea, but I didn't show rebelliousness in high school, so that outsiders felt that I grew up naturally, and even in the eyes of others, I was a good boy.
But my heart is very inferior, I never dare to tell others where I live, I dare not bring my classmates to my house, I am ashamed to talk about my parents' age and work, and even now I dare not talk about these things openly. This kind of native inferiority really had an indelible impact on Miss Bird and me, and even made me deformed and perverted in the end.
My mother is very similar to her mother, mean-spoken, stern and cold, I don't like my mother very much, the kind of hate that doesn't feel love, and think that mothers can't educate their children at all, and more needs to be said here The thing is that many Chinese parents have a hard time admitting their mistakes and saying sorry to their children, so many conflicts are more solidified.
I think the relationship between children and parents can generally go through four stages: 1. Obedience. Parents declare that their family is poor and they need their children to work hard on their own. They cannot count on their parents. The children recognize this fact and do what their parents ask. The specific realization is that their academic performance is acceptable, they do not cause trouble, and they are sensible children in the eyes of others. 2. Doubt. As the child grows up, he begins to learn to think and compare independently, and gradually begins to doubt the way his parents speak and do things, as well as the authenticity and rationality of the content instilled by his parents. 3. Confrontation. Rebelling against the will of the parents, acting against the parents, thinking that the parents do not understand themselves and cannot communicate, reject, 4. Reconcile. Through the setbacks received, or sudden awakening, or similar experiences, choose to understand and reconcile with parents, or choose to compromise even if they do not understand, endure and tolerate
Miss Bird, in the end, she believes that the rich world is also full of deceit, and the circles are different. , unable to force the fusion, she is still despised, and the taste of compromising is not good. When I came to New York, I found that New York is just like that. Drinking will get you drunk, and men will sleep. She began to look back on her own behavior and tried to perceive her mother's experience. She abandoned her name of lady bird, returned to Christine, went to church, and drove to enjoy the scenery of Saskatchewan. It was a complete reconciliation.
In recent years, there have been many good films of American films that have reconciled alone. The Oscar nominations also show the current atmosphere of American society revealed behind these films. Compromise is like Manchester by the sea. No matter how miserable it is, life will be better. Miss Bird finally understands this truth. She can never become a rich second generation, and what she thinks is worth pursuing seems to be less valuable. Growth has become meaningless. This kind of passive compromise attitude pervades the entire United States. On the one hand, China is vigorously rising, and the authority of the United States is constantly being challenged in the world. Second, the clamorous disputes between the United States and Russia, North Korea and South Korea, the Middle East and West Asia have also exhausted the United States. The masses are going through a long gap between crisis and recovery, no chance, no hope, but no death, no change, no meaning.
Is this a reflection of a true state? Shouldn't it provoke the people on the other side of the continent who are fanatical to think a little more soberly, to think about the meaning of the matter itself when we are talking about meaning?
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