Movies the Academy ignored Vol. 5: Lady Bird.

I´ve already talked (briefly) about Lady Bird in my "Coming-of-age movies that are actually good" post but I really felt like I should talk more about it as it´s one of my favorite movies ever, to be more specific my second favorite movie.

So, Lady Bird is written and directed the talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show-stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique Greta Gerwig, aka one of the most underrated women in the film industry nowadays. The movie is about the life of Christine, who calls herself Lady Bird, on her last year of high school in a catholic high school in Sacramento, in the early 2000s. The movie talks about pretty much everything regarding being a teenager: crushes, identity search, friendship, and mainly mother-daughter relationship.

Lady Bird has anything you can ask a good movie to have: an amazing cast, great cinematography, an amazing script, good directing. So, in my opinion, the movie is perfect.

The performances in this movie are spectacular, Saoirse Ronan is one of the best actresses out there and deserves the world, she is really underrated. Laurie Metcalf, Beanie Feldstein, and Lucas Hedges also do a GREAT job. The movie also has Timotheé Chalamet, Tracy Letts, Odeya Rush, and Stephen Henderson. The characters in this movie are really realistic characters, for example, Lady Bird, she is just a 17-year-old trying to find who she is and she has crushes and fights with her best friend and her mom and she makes a lot of mistakes, you could say she´s an average character but the movie has some things that make it different from other movies about teens, for example, the fact that the script is extremely natural and doesn´t have any problems with talking about themes which are not usually discussed in movies like masturbation, sexuality or abortion. Also, most of the conversations shown in the movie are already started, meaning you can´t see where they begin. Also, most of the scenes are really short and I think that makes it really realistic as it feels like they just started recording some average 17-year-old girls.

The cinematography is also really good, Greta Gerwig told her cinematographer, Sam Levy, to make the cinematography to "look and feel like a memory" and I think Levy made an amazing job following Greta´s command. The color palette and aesthetic is really cool.

Lady Bird was nominated to several Oscars including Best Picture, Best Original Script, Best Director, and Best Female Performance but didn't win any. The Shape of Water won Best Picture, in my opinion, Lady Bird is much superior so it should have won, Guillermo Del Toro won Best Director for The Shape of Water, in my opinion, Greta deserved it, instead of Guillermo, Get Out by Jordan Peele won Best Original Script and I´m okay with it as Get Out is an amazing movie and last but not least, Frances McDormand won the Oscar for Best Female Performance, and I think rances was super good in Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri but I believe Saoirse did a better job in Lady Bird. Also, I was pretty disappointed that Beanie Feldstein wasn´t nominated for Best Supporting Actress. So, to sum up, In my opinion, Lady Bird should have won Best Movie, Best Directing and Best Female Performance for Saoirse Ronan.

In conclusion, Lady Bird is a masterpiece and Greta Gerwig is an amazing screenwriter and director.

10/10