Everybody can relate

Christine "LadyBird" : Everybody can relate to her egocentrism, self-centered and arrogant point of view of the world - i do, haha : Yes, a lot of us bohemian guys want-to-be-blossomed have had once the will to move out of our family cocoon in order to reach a huge, multicultural, fashionable, globalized metropole that we'll never finish to explore ; that we'll never be tired of being amazed by ; in which we want to access the opportunities already foreseen a while ago in our foolish, naive, and dreamers's head. And that is the magic of this 10 millions dollars movie without big ambitions : It is the mastering of the ongoing messy feelings in our wallflower spirits. Indeed, we want to asserts our own identity and highlights our so-called particularities, we want to be grown and confront the world that our parents always told us to be hungry about ; to be careful about ; to be prepared for. We want to be those artists, scholars, entrepreneurs; to be totally impregnated by all the corners of those big liberal (in terms of mindsets) metropoles and live those twisted, complicated but beautiful relationships ; We have this utopian dream of freedom, of intellectual blossoming, but we are unaware of the links that tide us to our "Home".
As a coming-of-age story, LadyBird is deeply-embedded in our current generation, but manage to avoid (certain, not all) clichés usually attributed to millennials : Christine "LadyBird" is a beautiful mix of twisted feelings and confidence, foolish but smart, self-centered but full of love to give ; she hides the fact that she come from a "modest" family, she is attracted by a popular and arrogant wallflower guitarist (who, embody, in this film, the guy that you hate so much that you end up liking him), she want to be liked by the persons she identified as "cool" (the scene in which she break her links with her superficial friends is particularly simply handled, but effective and powerful). I don't think we can consider those features as "clichés" in the extent that again, we, millennials, our parents, thirties and even quarantines can relate. (because hey, we all had 18 once,
The biggest achievement of the scenario is the mother-daughter relation marked by bitterness, shame, lack of recognition, consideration and understandings... But all this feelings are under the Umbrella of love and the difficulty to express it. It is evidenced by the movie's heartbreaking ending scene. Nothing is exaggerated, everything seems so natural and heavily slight.

The difficult and compulsory path back home is striking by its realistic treatment : It is only when you're away that you realize how your roots, your habits, the places that influenced you were the cornerstone of your human construction : home suddenly become more beautiful, the sun brighter, the seeing of your old elementary school and high school provoke this nostalgic smile that we are all familiar with, and this feeling of homesickness starts kicking. However, you're aware that it is a path, a necessary one.

This movie also unveil Laurie Metcalf on the big screen, an actress shamefully most known for her roles in plays and tv shows (Desperate Housewives ? Carolyn Bigsby ? Anyone ?) and permit her to enter the club of experienced actors whose talents are lately revealed internationally (Allison Janney, Octavia Spencer). Aside of that, her character also shows how "supporting roles" can be interesting and important in the construction of a scenario (It's a mainstream argument that i had to point out).
A negative critic, maybe ? First, the opposition between "real" and truthful friends from superficial and dumb-ass friends can at a first sight seems quite cliché ; however, this critic can be mitigated by the fact that the lead character, when realizing where she want to belong, isn't judgmental, and acknowledge her own flaws. Moreover, there is a popular critic which, when a a person write a movie that is partially inspired from his own life, emphasize his "egocentrism". I tend to disagree in this case. The movie have the ability to speaks to everyone - and God knows it is not an easy task.
To conclude, it is a movie that i'll not easily forget.