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My apologies to the director of this movie because I am very supportive of fellow ladies that make films, but this review is not going to be very heartwarming.

"Lady Bird" follows a teenage girl in Sacramento, CA, on her journey into adulthood. This is the premise of the movie and as though it sounds like many coming-of-age log lines you've already heard, this movie is nothing like them - because it doesn't follow up to the expectations it rises.

A coming-of-age movie has to do at least one of the following things - firstly, be "relatable". The demographic audience of this genre watches these kind of movies because they want to relate to the anti-hero, the underdog. It's very hard to do that when the main character is an entitled, bratty girl who lives in S a c r a m e n t o. This fact was supposed to get watered down by financial issues of the family or the fact that she is "weird" and unpopular - but it just wasn't convincing enough.

This brings me to my next point, which is acting. I'm sure that the director saw something of herself in Saoirse Ronan but Saoirse is just not this character - she doesn't look 18, she doesn't look OR act quirky/weird, she is simply too good looking and put together to play this role. If we don't believe all these things in the first place, we're never gonna buy the acting...

Oh, the acting. I don't want to stay on this subject for too long - the cliché dialogue itself is enough to make the viewer roll their eyes but a good actor can even make this fly if they just say the words... but no, every and each sentence about a small-town girl with big dreams you've all already heard a million times before had to be super-emphasized.

The story is clear. A girl doesn't feel like she belongs. She tries to be something that she's not. Some big grown-up things happen in her life that make her realize who she really is and she accepts that. However, this has just been seen too many times before. Just last year, The Edge Of Seventeen succeeded in transferring the charm of a high-school weirdo to the big screen. But, this movie just doesn't do it - it's just not believable, at moments awkward to watch (not an emotion you want the viewer to feel), unrelatable, not even pretentious - it's just basic and nothing, it's nothing, it didn't make me feel anything, it wasn't even so bad that I would turn it off.

So, again, if the director ever reads this - don't worry, you still did a better job than me and yes, I'm sure that making your first feature is hella hard, but this is just my honest opinion that I hope you can take something out of it...

The show Freaks and Geeks is one of the best, most realistic shows about teenagers I have ever seen. It perfectly portrays all layers of society a teenager is aware of - the high school hierarchy and parents. It is timeless.

I was two years old when this show went on air, and I was not even born in the era that it is located in, but, still, I can relate to the main character and the other characters, sometimes, as well. The show just speaks the truth and doesn't separate humans into categories - but shows them in their entire complexity, within the categories they've created for themselves.

I would definitely recommend this show to everyone, honestly, hoping that it would bring more understanding among our society.