movies similar to ladybird?
i’m going into my senior year and as a 17 (almost 18 in october) year old girl i’ve found great comfort in this movie. it’s ugly and it shows parts i really relate to. not fitting in but also not being exactly an outcast. being ashamed of her poverty stricken lifestyle in front of her rich classmates, her complicated relationship with her mom, especially that part really makes the movie so much more relatable. she and her mom argue but they can’t stay away with each other it’s such a close yet toxic relationship, they’re like best friends who hate each other and that exactly describes my own relationship with my mom. i especially like the wya she’s so annoying and pretentious cause as a teenage girl you tend to do that, how she wants to go to a college in new york and actually experience something which is similar to my case. she’s not exactly a good girl but she’s not terrible and we see this in the way she treats the sister whose name i can’t remember, she calls her a c*nt to get jenna to like her but she actually loves the sister. she has controversial opinions like the whole abortion thing. the way she fell in love with danny and after finding out he was gay it didn’t ruin their friendship. how she hung onto Kyle even though he was a pretentious little hipster shit. her quiet relationship with her dad.
i watched this movie for the first time when i was in middle school i think it was 2021-2022, i was in 7th-8th grade so i thought the movie was boring and didn’t get the hype. but this summer i rediscovered it and it shocked me to see how much i missed back when i wasn’t really experiencing the things Christine or Ladybird is experiencing.
the quiet shitty life and her lazy ambition to wanna do something more with her life is scary accurate and i can only understand the bad reviews from people who are either too young to understand or too old to care.
that kinda reminds me of the quote: "All my life I've been obsessed with adolescence, drunk on it. Even when I was little, I knew that teenagers sparkled. I knew they knew something children didn't know, and adults ended up forgetting." — Lorde
anyways i’m just looking for any suggestions for films with similar themes
i’ve gotten the perks of being a wallflower but i don’t see the similarity except for being set in a high school and complicated relationships which is a great movie in its own i just don’t see the comparison to lady bird