did i like ladybird?

maybe, idk?

So I actually like "Ladybird", but did I love it? maybe. The first time I saw it my friend and I came out of it like "holy shit, that hit a little too close to home", and it stuck with me for a while. I saw it again a few weeks later with my parents, partly because I wanted to see it again but mainly because I was bored and someone else was paying for my ticket. And i still liked it the second time around, but once it was over I was like "okay time to go" and didn't think at all about it afterwards. For real though, I really did like "Ladybird", especially seeing it the first time when it was still under the radar (i always hate watching/reading/listening to things that are really popular, so that's why the second time around the movie kind of annoyed me.) But ignoring all of that here's what I thought (lol i hate myself for typing this sentence).

I happen to also be a 17 year old who's applying to colleges atm and am borderline annoying as hell, so I really identified with Ladybird. My mom and i are cool so couldn't really relate to the movie in that area, but whatever. In all the movie felt like a more relatable "Juno" , which is my favorite movie, so bonus points to my girl Greta for making that happen, she knows how to write some damn dialogue. The writing for me was the best part, you could tell she just sat down and was like "lets write a effing movie" and the whole thing just came to her in 3 hours - like rocky but better. Another way the movie reminds me of Juno is with its casting. Since Juno has the greatest cast of all time™, you're able to care about all the characters and not just the lead because the actors portray their roles so gd well. With Ladybird the casting was great, I love the shit out of Laurie Metcalf, Saoirse is cute as hell, and Tracy Letts may or may not have been snubbed. and I liked Beanie and Logan, my feelings towards Chalamet are debatable. He always plays an asshole to the point where i feel like he has to be one in real life or else he's just a great actor. I feel like Greta was able to write characters that felt so real that if for some god forsaken reason i ever wound up in Sacramento i could just run into her mom at the thrift store and not blink an eye. And thats what took Ladybird from pretty good to great.

Since I am an asshole, here's why I don't love it. To me seeing the movie was like when you read a book that't so good that you don't want to tall anyone about it so it can be all yours. I wanted to hold on to the Ladybird/Christine, Greta Gerwig, and the movie itself, and now so does everyone else. I especially felt this way about greta since I've been a fan of hers since 8th grade (which is a whole other story) and now I just feel like I'm riding the gerwig bandwagon even though I was before the band got on. (fyi i sound like such a bitch right now so feel free to hate on me because im totally doing the same thing) . The other reason why I just like "Ladybird" is because of the fans. They get on my goddamn nerves. Every time i go on twitter or buzzfeed or what ever, I'm assaulted with articles about how relate able the movie is. It's kind of to the point where I have trouble relating to it because so many other people feel the same way that it makes me feel ordinary and boring. it's like those shitty "me vs everyone else" memes, where when you think about it you realize that technically everyone is "me" when they look at it which makes them somehow even shittier. but in the long run I did really like it. The movie also happened to be the first R movie that I legally saw by myself, so I have connection to it on another level, like "Ladybird" and i are weird blood brothers now.

So if you haven't had a chance to see "Ladybird" i'd do it, especially if your a 17 y/o girl. Lol it actually made me feel so stressed out about where my life was at the time. So im just saying, if you get stressed out easily and you're also in your senior year, and maybe if you and your mom have some major love-hate ish, then I'd hold off on seeing it, but again IJS.

Ladybird gets 4/5 OK's.