{"id":39278,"date":"2017-11-19T02:50:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T07:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismaverick.com\/wp\/?p=39278"},"modified":"2017-11-19T12:38:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T17:38:38","slug":"a-quirky-and-angsty-lady-bird-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrismaverick.com\/wp\/2017\/11\/19\/a-quirky-and-angsty-lady-bird-review\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quirky and Angsty Lady Bird<\/i> Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I am a quirky and angsty teenage white girl. OK… I mean… I’m not. I’m a middle aged black man. But sometimes I’m not sure. I like millennial pop<\/a> music. I like YA fiction<\/a>. I love me some CW TV<\/a> shows (and yes, I maybe have a teeny bit of a schoolgirl crush on Stephen Amell<\/a>, but have you seen him do the salmon ladder? Who doesn’t? I also can’t wait for the 100<\/i> to come back. And are you caught up on Riverdale<\/em>? Because OMG!). I mean, I’m pretty sure I’m totally a dude… but\u00a0my favorite movie of last year<\/a> was probably The Edge of Seventeen<\/em><\/a>, the story of a quirky and angsty teenaged white girl dealing with first world problems as she sat on the cusp of adulthood. I gave it 4.25 out of 5 stars. In retrospect, I maybe even owed it another quarter star. I just found it so relatable and perfect. It spoke to me. And you know, maybe I’d think it was an outlier. Maybe that was just a one-time thing. Except that this year my favorite movie (and it’s been a good year for movies, especially low to middle budget ones) is probably\u00a0Lady Bird,\u00a0<\/em>the story of a quirky and angsty teenage white girl dealing with first world problems. Why do I relate to these movies so much?<\/p>\n

Seriously… I’m starting to question things about myself.<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s just that they’re good.\u00a0Lady Bird<\/em> certainly was. In fact, it was nigh perfect.<\/p>\n

Perhaps we are entering something of a renaissance for the female bildungsroman film. That’s what these are. When I reviewed The Edge of Seventeen<\/i>\u00a0I noted that I couldn’t really write the review without spoilers, but that was ok because the entire plot of the film was largely given away by the trailer. It was the story of a quirky and angsty teenage girl who suddenly discovered that her quirky and angsty best friend was fucking her older brother. She then deals with it with a succession of completely predictable quirky angst. #WhiteGirlProblems, amirite? Up top! Hello? Anyone? Huh… I really was expecting a high five there. Which maybe would have worked better if there was anyone else in the room as I am typing the review. Oh well.<\/p>\n

That said, as predictable as it might have been, that movie worked on every level because it really wasn’t about the plot. It was about the character development as you got there. It was enjoyable on almost every level. It was good because it wasn’t about where the story was going, it was about watching the story get there.<\/p>\n

Lady Bird<\/em> goes a different way. I can’t really spoil the plot because… well, it’s kind of hard to say what the plot is. Seriously. Just watch the trailer:<\/p>\n