The novelty and charm of Greta Gerwig, the darling of the “life-size” era, seen in “Lady Bird”

``Lady Bird'' is a masterpiece that elevates the ordinary scenery of youth into something ``universal.''

In particular, the movie ``Lady Bird'' is an epoch-making masterpiece that fully demonstrates her ``life-size'' ism.

In other words, what is presented here is a very common, ordinary scene of youth. However, by carefully and thoroughly depicting the details, the "ordinary" has been sublimated into the realm of the "universal." Its “power to empathize” is incredible!

The story is set in 2002. The main character, Christine (Saoirse Ronan), is a high school student who is about to The Graduate next year. She dyed her hair red and invented the nickname ``Lady Bird.'' She's a 17-year-old girl with an extremely self-conscious naivety. She lives in Sacramento, located at the northern tip of California.

At the beginning of the film, the following line is displayed as a caption: ``People who talk about California hedonism don't know Christmas in Sacramento.'' This is a quote from Joan Didion (born 1934), a writer from the same region.

Although Sacramento is the state capital, it is a conservative place dominated by Christianity, much different from the image of open West Coast cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco. To begin with, "sacrament" is a Catholic term meaning "sacrament."

For example, this is also the hometown of the male trio that appeared in Clint Eastwood's ` `The 15:17 to Paris '' (2018). In that movie, we could see a glimpse of that conservative nature in the strict discipline of the school, but in "Lady Bird," Christine attends a strict Catholic high school, and the oppressive environment of the school and land causes her inner refraction. It's quite complicated.

And of course, Sacramento is Greta Gerwig's hometown. This film is largely a reflection of her self-portraits and real-life experiences. However, he himself has said that ``not a single episode is exactly the same,'' and even though it is not a simple self-narration circuit, it is definitely a story with flesh and blood that has been reconstructed based on a personal half-life story. do not have. Basically, you can think of Christine as the former Greta.

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Christine's dream is the East Coast. An intelligent and sophisticated city life. She gets into an argument in the car with her mother (Laurie Metcalf), who wants her to go to a local university, and ends up shouting, "I hate this place. I want to go to New York or New Hampshire, where there's a lot of culture!" In short, in Japanese terms, a person is languishing in their parents' home in the countryside, but uses a turning point in their life, such as going to higher education, as an opportunity to make their debut in Tokyo.

The author of the Kamigyo-gumi, even though he was born and raised in a different place, empathizes deeply with Christine's feelings. In other words, while focusing on the specific local geography of Sacramento, we can also see that it is connected to an anonymous sense of life in a regional city that we, who live in Japan, can also share. This is a great example of how concrete details are combined with universal reality. Images of cities and youth that are vaguely drawn from the beginning end up being false. However, the entire story of ``Lady Bird'' is filled with realistic, ``life-sized'' and realistic depictions.

Depicting the real life of girls from a casual perspective