Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: But do you like me? I was telling you the truth, do you want me to lie? Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: No, I mean, I just, I wish that you liked me. Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: I still want you to think I look good. Kyle Scheible: I wish you had been.Ĭhristine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: Why can't you say I look nice? Marion McPherson: I thought you didn't even care what I think. Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: I wasn't flirting. Miguel McPherson: Hey, I'm not paying you to flirt. Kyle Scheible: Maybe I'll see you at the Deuce or something? Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: Sure, see you at the Deuce. Kyle Scheible: Yeah, Jenna's hella tight. I'm friends with Jenna and she's always talking about how great your band is so I wanted to check it out. Kyle Scheible: It's weird you shake hands. With Jonah Ruiz? L'Enfance Nue? Kyle Scheible: L'Enfance Nue. Casey Kelly: Excuse me? Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: Listen, if your mother had had the abortion, we wouldn't have to sit through this stupid assembly!Ĭhristine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: Hey. I'm just saying that, if you took up close pictures of my vagina while I was on my period, it would be disturbing but it doesn't make it wrong. Casey Kelly: You think dead children aren't morally wrong? Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: No. Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: What if this is the best version?Ĭhristine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: Just because something looks ugly doesn't mean that it's morally wrong. Marion McPherson: I want you to be the very best version of yourself that you can be. Sister Sarah Joan: Don't you think maybe they are the same thing? Love and attention? Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: Sure, I guess I pay attention. Sister Sarah Joan: Well it comes across as love. Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: I was just describing it. Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: I do? Sister Sarah Joan: You write about Sacramento so affectionately and with such care. Kyle Scheible: You're gonna have so much unspecial sex in your life.ĭialogue Sister Sarah Joan: You clearly love Sacramento.Julie Steffans: Some people aren't built happy, you know. You're not gonna get in a car with a guy that honks, are ya?.Being successful doesn't mean anything in and of itself. The only thing exciting about 2002 is that it's a palindrome.I want to go where culture is like, New York, or Connecticut or New Hampshire. I hate California, I want to go to the east coast.I was on top! Who the fuck is on top their first time!.I found when it happened that I really like dry humping more.People go by the names their parents give them, but they don't believe in God.The heroine must come from a poor social background,so she was never taught the rules of the game,so she is bound to fail.But Loach avoids to show us the people from the social services as "baddies":it's for her own good,they say.They reason by the establishment's rules,but they never try to communicate with the mother,deemed irresponsible,unable to get a place in the community.The end of the movie preserves the viewer from despair though.Every dog has his day,they say. "Ladybird,ladybird" is a harsh movie,sometimes unbearable,definitely not for all tastes.Crissy Rock is absolutely astounding,she does not play the part,she really lives it,leaving us on the edge of our seat.Her screams,her tears,her anger are so real that,had Loach not said it was a true story,we would believe in it anyway.Loach's treatment is stripped of any embellishment.No need for strings when fate strikes once more the heroine.Her partner,an immigrant,is a good man who loves her sincerely he suffers because he feels helpless,and when she beats him,he does not complain:his despair is so deep he contemplates suicide.We are far from the immigrant macho cliché. Kenneth Loach ,among all the great directors in the world,has always been one of the very few who depicts the "riff raff" ,to quote one of his works.In his universe, you will not find the young lawyer ,the yalie,the dynamic executive,the journalist with good prospects or the handsome detective with his gorgeous assistant.All his characters are individuals struggling against the authorities and who cannot win:the little boy from "kes",the young girl from 'family life",the two buddies on the dole from "looks and smiles",and the unfortunate mother from "ladybird ladybird".
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