I don’t think there has ever been a more truthful representation of a teenage girl. Even with the relationships that ‘Lady Bird’ has… everything is relatable. The movie brings to life the feeling, that we all get, of not seeing the small moments. Director Greta Gerwig films in short elliptical scenes thatjump from time to time throughout this teenage girl’s senior year of high school, accentuating how your whole life is composed of such fleeting moments. And how quick they pass by. There’s one scene that really shows this, and it’s one between mother and daughter, shopping for a prom dress. Bickering the whole way, nit-picking at each other constantly. And yet, as soon as they find a dress they both like, they stop, like it never happened. The excessive arguing means nothing, because of their deep bond, and that moment slips away, it no longer exists. It never existed. We’re just left with the good parts… the ones that we remember. Not only this, but every scene clearly defines an important occasion in her life, no matter how insignificant it seems, everything adds up and links together to create this map into ‘Lady Bird’s’ most intimate and provocative thoughts. It’s just so fucking good. The way Gerwig completely opens up all these emotions and just lets them run wild brings a youthfulness and a tragic truth to each character that I’ve hardly seen in films before. I think this is what brings the new, exciting and truly moving nature of the film to life. It’s what made me see myself in ‘Lady Bird’. And I think every teenage girl would see herself in ‘LadyBird’ in some way.