What 'Lady Bird' Gets Right About Being a Teenager
'Lady Bird' is a triumph. Very few films depict the agonies of high school with so much warmth and specificity.
When Greta Gerwig was in high school during the early 2000s, she kept a detailed diary of her life. In a withmagazine, Gerwig described revisiting the diary as an adult and marveling at the full-throated intensity of those entries: "I would go on for pages and pages about this crush I had, dissecting every moment. ‘Did he notice that our arms were touching, or was that an accident?’ And then I wrote, 'Upon further reflection, I think that this might’ve been a more vivid emotional experience for me
