Such a gorgeous ending. It didn't bother for an elaborate confrontational scene. Just a simple phone call that tied up the story and characters' arc (Christine reconciling with her mom and her realizing that she loves Sacramento).
You’re all gonna hate me for saying this. But i do not like this ending. It’s way too vague. I usually don’t have a problem with vague endings in films. But this is one of those films where it doesn’t work. Throughout the whole film, Lady Bird’s mother had done nothing but treat her daughter like crap. I’m sorry, but if your child applying for and getting into a great college without telling you pisses you off to the point where you pretend they’re invisible, then you shouldn’t be a parent. How do we know this message reconciled everything? For all we know, her mom could’ve erased it immediately after listening to it and forgetting all about it
@@superjackster0165 The movie is so relatable I have the same relationship with my mother. It’s toxic but also in a positive in a way. In the end of the day we’re all humans. Probably you have different relationship with your mother.
@@lovescoffee7189 Still a dumb excuse. If she had avoided talking to Lady Bird for a couple days, i might’ve understood it. But the fact that it was an entire summer is just too unbelievable. Even then, if she felt that Lady Bird passed the limit or felt excluded, why didn’t she just tell her this instead of acting like she was deaf around her? Honestly, the relationship between Lady Bird and her mom just pissed me off. It doesn’t even get resolved
@@superjackster0165 I understand where you're coming from, but mothers are humans with flaws as well. Her mother didn't abuse her, she didn't treat her like crap really, she just didn't know how to show her love. She crumpled up about 10 letters where she expressed her love to her daughter. She broke down crying in the car and went back so she could talk to her but didn't get there in time. These are all realistic, honestly, I wish I had a father like Christine's. My relationship with my mother is the same as Christine's and the ending was perfect. As someone stated above, if we hadn't seen the mother cry and hurry back, I'd probably agree with you.
My favorite scene, so simple, delicate and pure. Lady Bird always wanted more, a bigger life, a better life, something unique and exceptional. She built herself contesting everything she was given. Now she is given a blank page, but she is lost in it. This church is a reminder of all that she used to hate but actually needed to build herself. She is getting a fresh start but she can’t be completely alone, she needs something of her past to reminder her who she is. She understand that what she was given made her and she needs it to carry on. Her name, first of all.
That's all nice but Christine was still very selfish and immature, even during that phone call she didn't have the balls to overtly say "I'm sorry I was a brat who couldn't appreciate what you'd done for me." She's a very annoying character, I didn't feel much sympathy for her, just for her parents, especially the mother.
I watched this movie with my mom in theaters. She always falls asleep. But with Lady Bird, she paid attention to everything, even read the subtitles. She loved the ending, me too.
@@foolslayer9416 that's why mother daughter relationship is complicated. even if ladybird was hurting, all she could see was her mother's love for her and that marion wanted nothing but the best for her
@@foolslayer9416 Exactly my point, the mom was doing every thing right, yes LB wanted something more and that's awesome, but the mom working double shifts and making every thing works is ny NO means the bad one;
No one talks about how at the end it almost sounds like she wanted to say “i’m sorry” but immediately stops herself and opts with a “thank you” instead. Like all this character growth and she still finds it hard to swallow her pride and apologise. It’s realistic and beautiful
I actually think she went to say “I’m gonna be alright” but realized it was pointless. Anytime she tried to share herself with her mom, who she really was I mean, she just got shot down. I think she went to say that and probably realized her mom would just disagree. So she left it at thank you and moved on.
she had already said sorry Manu times to her mother, came like a crashing. what she did not say very often was a thank you. A sorry was not what her parents needed to hear, everyone knows she is sorry. what the movie wanted and her parents wanted was for her to be a bit grateful. that's why it was a thank you.
Idk why but I started balling in this scene. Especially when she’s says Christine is a good name and then “did you feel emotional the first time you drove in sacramento?” It’s just so beautiful for some reason.
literally how I felt about my small town, the need to leave for wanting more art & culture and going to college far away in a bigger city, going against my parents wishes of wanting me study closer to home. then doing my first drive back home and realizing the beauty and the little things of my hometown. learning the things I took for granted. favourite ending scene. gerwig is amazing.
As someone who grew up in a small town thinking I hated it & then moved to NYC in my 20s thinking it would somehow fulfill me... this scene hit me hard. Just got done watching this for the first time and I cried like a baby
@@dromeda6066 yes and no… I’m having a great time and I do love it, but it makes you appreciate/miss suburb life if that’s where you originally grew up :)
Yes! I thought the music felt (not just sounded) familiar, then I rewatched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind the other day and was like THAT’S IT! It’s truly magical, how he evokes such emotion with song
Yes! Ngl, i hated alot of scenes in thid movie (her doing it with kyle, being blasphemous, and ditching Julie), but the ending really brought the whole story together, and its way better upon rewatch!
We've had a few of those scenes with our daughters going away to college.... you have an array of emotions hitting you.... the weariness of dealing with teenagers who thought you were amazing when they were young only to thwart you every way possible when they got older. The feeling that you're going to enjoy the peace when they're away, the realisation when you drop them off that they are the most precious important things in your life and you'll miss the noise and endless car ferrying. Then they come home for a weekend and you can't wait for them to leave again but come the next weekend you're wondering if they'll be coming home. Then gradually the time slips by, they make new friend networks... they stay away weekends.... they meet boys, they take more stuff away with them from home and before you know it.... they're gone. Gone out into the world, what you always wanted for them... to be independent and make their own way in life. Its good, you're proud and feel that you've achieved something good as a parent.... but no one prepares you for the quiet house, the empty bedrooms the time you can't fill. It seems that every success has its downside.
This movie literally represents my life, I have pretended to be someone I am not because I have no money, I have changed true friendships for false ones, I am about to enter the u and I do not have much money, I cheated on where I live out of shame, I buy second-hand clothes Sometimes for not having money but if I like it, I can't have everything I want and I have to earn it myself, not all movies have to have a perfect protagonist and with money with an incredible life, not everyone has the same opportunities, I cry with this movie because it is very realistic.
I think that this scene means that Christine gives the Thanks to all her childhood and let it go like a good remember with a lot of learning, that its hard and also so emotional. This scene its so important for me because i think that i will feel the same when i turn a Young adult and left my city and all it haves in.
The woman and the infant represent Mary and Jesus which leads Lady Bird to search for God, the child with an eye broken represents the eye of Christine's mother (her attention) over Christine, which she now sees is missing from her life as she behaved recklessly the night before and suffered consequences without having her mom there for her. She comes to term with her "Christine" name which is also a reference to "Christ". Literally my favorite movie from the 10s. Not even evangelical movies get as spiritual and deep as this one.
One way I see it is that she feels super bad and embarrassed about being in the hospital for being too drunk while there are some people who get way more serious injuries
Thank you for selling me on this! I expected any second to see the movie disrespect our faith, and was bent on tracking down the moment so as to not waste my time. Sounds much more nuanced and refreshing than your average Hollywood movie.
I love how this whole film she's obsessing over wealth, partying, rude to her mom, and sleeping around But literally ends with her realizing the error of her ways and apologizing to her mom. Yall, the religious themes in this movie 😭 for a teen movie this , is so good. This literally resonated with me as a believer
When Greta Gerwig explains that we feel like life with a capital L is starting somewhere else and when we get to where we think we should be, we realize it’s been all along... Love
I lived in sac for 2 years after undergrad. Recently moved to socal and watching this movie made me realize how impactful sac was to my adulthood. Although I didn’t have a pleasant time in sac, I now realize that it helped me develop certain characteristics that I exercise on the daily. This weekend I am in NY for the first time and I’m making time to visit the church lady bird went to. Idk why but I feel it’s right to just step into it
Idk I guess I don’t have the rhetorical tools to articulate what this scene is but it’s familiar to me. I moved to a big city after high school for college. My first weekend I got so drunk I woke up on a hospital bed. I walked through the city hungover and realized I should probably call my mom. She answered and in that moment I realized I didn’t have to tell her everything. I succeeded on my own. I failed on my own. It was my life. My choices and my responsibility. .
The movie is so relatable especially her relationship with her mother and life in general. It just gives me so much comfort and realize a lot of things.
I remember not thinking much of this movie. My best friend fell asleep on the coach watching it beside me. But when it came to this exact scene I burst into tears and felt so incredibly moved.. dunno what it did to me. I'll never forget the feeling
When I first watched this movie, right before she moves to New York, I thought to myself, “This movie is okay.” Nothing great, nothing spectacular, just a fine movie. Then this scene happens, and when she hangs up and the credits roll, I start crying in the theater. It was that moment that everything just clicked for me. Like, “I get it. It all makes sense to me.” And now I think this is one of the best movies I have ever seen.
One of the songs that comes to mind when I view the ending of Lady Bird is Ain't it Fun by Paramore. In my opinion, it's the song which genuinely captures the joy of getting what you want while also being depressed at the fact that you may just have lost everything you love in the process of getting what you want.
I’m 19, about to go to college somewhere far away from home and be by myself for the first time. I’m terrified.,I waited all my life for this moment, to leave the small town i live in and go pursue my dreams but all of a sudden I feel like i just wanna stick to my family and friends and never let them go, like a shy child that won’t stop hiding behind her dads legs. But I guess that’s how it’s supposed to be, we all get a little scared before jumping. The truth is everywhere I go I’ll have my own problems and things to cry about, i just have to get tough enough to not let it stop me
I’ve got a mother like Lady Birds and this scene and movie just hits different. It give me hope that my mum is going through the same stuff and that we will find a resolution
I'm finally moving out of my home state where I've lived my entire life to NYC in a little less than 8 weeks and this scene is hitting me so hard right now, I can't help but cry.
I watched this film in the theaters,with my mom, just as I was about to leave for college. At the time, my mom and I would fight a lot over the smallest of things so watching this just gives us a new perspective on our relationship. Been six years since then and now I live half the world away from her. This film has become a complete masterpiece for me, and it would hit me really REALLY hard whenever I watch it.
Lady Bird hit close to home for me in a lot of ways from growing up in a small southern city while wanting bigger things in life to a complicated relationship with my mother. I even remember asking my mom if she would be friends with me if I wasn't her child. Now that I'm an adult I realize my mom and I are very similar but this time in a teenager's life is really difficult. I said some not nice things to my mom when it came time for college as well and while my mom was never like Marion, we had our share of fights. I think what stands out to me is while Christine grew up, she still kept at the NYC thing if we look at Greta Gerwig's real life. I believe she eventually gets used to New York and follows her dreams but more as a fully realized human.
will never forget the feeling of watching this part in the movie. i think as you watch you kind of learn to hate sacramento as much as ladybird but in the end it almost feels like you have the same realization as she did. the parallels between her mom and her driving through the streets of sacramento and ladybird finally accepting her name had me sobbing. this movie really encapsulates the change from adolescence to adulthood
yall i cannot express how sad this music and this scene is for me. i literally cannot stop crying because of how the beauty of Christine's relationship with her mother is portrayed in this movie
I feel very connected to this film. Parallels. Living in the Bay Area, wanting to grow up, dysfunctional connections to friends and family. Eventually moving to NYC and growing up. This scene always makes me cry because I've too been on the BK bridge in the rain calling my family to apologize and thank them for all they did.
This movie is so conflicting to me. On one hand, my god the cinematography and aesthetic is beautiful. It's so warm, but it also feels like the warmth of someone else's hot breath in your face. Saoirse Ronan is incredible and when she's the main character, the movie always feels dreamy. And I love the coming-of-age, letting loose and then having to come back down to earth themes... but I don't know if she really should have thanked her mother like this. I don't know if it should have been framed like it was the 100% correct decision. Her mother did hurt her. (She stops speaking to her own daughter for ages just because she strove to go to college somewhere else?! I do understand the stress of financial things but seriously? You're not even gonna try to help her, or support her in working for it?) Also Catholicism is fuckin heavy on your mental health. Sure, she learned good lessons, but a lot of them were really from her own experience, not just the realization that maybe her mother was "right" about some things. The mother's visible regret does make me have hope that they could rebuild a healthier relationship... but IDK! The "happy ending" vibe of her saying basically "you were right all along, Mom" makes me feel squirmy because of the emotional shit her mom did to her. (I think this may also be heavily influenced by the fact that I'm agnostic and have felt a lot of freaky pressure from Christians in my life and the whole concept of blind faith just creeps me out, so idk!)
I understand why you could feel like that way but I don’t think the phone call is her saying her mother was right all along. Personally, I have a similar relationship with my mother (we disagree a lot and can go days not talking then suddenly we’re best friends then she’ll make a snide comment or I’ll say something she doesn’t like and the cycle resets.) I went through a period of my life where I was so certain I hated her and she hated me and I was willing to accept that but (I know it’s cliche) as I got older things changed. I had a moment of clarity like ladybird in this scene. The relationship between parent and child is so strange but so beautiful. Our mothers are meant to care for us and we grow up knowing them our whole lives but only in the way they fit into ours. We don’t actually begin to know them as people till we get older and start to think about what they were like before us. And sometimes it takes leaving them to realise who they are and how similar we actually are to them. How parts of them are in pieces of us. Ladybird and her mother are so similar like me and mine. And I think the phone call is her realising that though her mother is not perfect (neither is she) that’s not entirely her fault. She’s human and she’s flawed just like everyone. She says mindless and hurtful things. But at the same time she cares for her. In such a simple way that lady bird never stopped to realise it. I think that the phone call doesn’t mean they won’t fight again (they will as I still do with my mother at times) but not in the same way. Lady bird grows up and I’m sure her mother has a similar revelation though it’s not shown on screen.
I mean, to me, no one is really right or wrong. They both are learning how to grow together and how to be more considerate of each other. That tends to happen in families. Everyone have their own goals and problems that are going to affect each other no matter what, specially in the McPhersons' situation. However, even though they might argue, they love and need each other still. As we see it here and in the airport scene. So to me is not much of a "Mom, you were right all along" and more of a "Mom, I will always need you" (I might've projected a little, idk. I'm really close with my mom and I relate a lot to LadyBird as a son so that's how I see the movie. Even though the movie explores a lot more themes. )
I completely agree and I've seen other people express the same things. Giving your daughter the silent treatment for moving away isn't okay. It's such a beautiful movie, the cinematography, the dialogue, Greta Gerwig does it all so well and seemingly effortlessly. But this relationship is too hard for me to watch. The ending is basically her apologizing, forgiving, and to me it's the continuation of an abusive cycle she's stuck in. It would've been different if that's acknowledged, but it isn't, instead her mother's behaviour is normalized. And it worries me, that so many daughters find it relatable, think they're both equally guilty.
The ending wasn’t rly about the religious aspect though, the church scene was there as a reminder of Sacramento and the feeling of home, not necessarily because she had some holy moment of faith.
Last year I visited Anchorage Alaska for about 2 weeks. Enjoyed an extreme amount of independence and even on a few occasions saw natural beauty never thought possible. I would stare off into the mountains, drive through near pitch black roads at 3 am with my friends and feel this immense weight of history everywhere. I wouldn't necessarily describe my emotions as happy or exhilarated, but instead more so just childhood curiosity. Every corner explored, every person I spoke to just made me feel this sense of inner light. It's hard for me to retain that feeling in my hometown sometimes but occasionally I come across a majestic cloud, or an extremely kind person. And for a moment that sense of light comes bursting out and it keeps me going. I will be leaving my hometown perhaps permanently in the next year and I hope that when that time comes I will remember the beautiful mountains that surrounded my city throughout the course of my life. I'll keep searching for that light.
This is my most fav movie. It's actually soo relatable, like how we detach ourselves from our parents and loved ones in terms of adulting. We often forget how much our roots mean to us. Also, this is exactlyyyy the kind of relationship that gets developed between the moms and their kids in the end of teengae
when i first watched this scene, i was annoyed, i didn’t get it. i was annoyed she contacted her mother after what had happened, and i was upset that she didn’t use the name she chose for herself in her new city. that was two years ago and i was in middle school. and now i know that i wasn’t supposed to get it because at the time, i was supposed to be rooting for the child lady bird, because that’s who i related to. i thought it was dumb when she “grew up”. but watching this at an older age i realize that the older you get, the more the ending makes sense. Christine has grown up and come to an acceptation of her life and how she got where she is. i changed my mind on this movie, i love it.
I relate to Christine, not only her name but what she wanted, she wanted an illusion of what she thought was good for her, what she thought was rich and admirable, she was reaching for the unreachable because that's wasn't her story to tell. Christine hated her name just like how I hated my name "Christina" for the longest time, I hated the way it sounded, I wanted to be different, I wanted better and bigger things, I wanted to live a life that wasn't even mine, I was reaching for the things that I most desired but couldn't get, I was immature about wanting instead of realizing what I truly needed. I was In the 10th grade or so when I watched this movie so around 15 Im now freshly 19, in college, in a state far from Texas, lost, confused, trying to figure out who I am, and I felt the exact same way I did when Christine arrived at NY, it's all so surreal figuring out how when I first watched this movie I didn't get it, but now I do, I get it so much, I lied to so many of the people in my life because I wanted this dream, this "American dream" but I will never have it unless I grow up and get myself out of that mindset, why have what others have when I can make my own dream realities. It's such an amazing movie truly, this movie (rewatching it again) has made me realize how much of a bitch I was not just to friends and people I've met, but family.
I really liked this movie, it’s the most relatable teen movie I’ve ever watched, I really wish I had watched this when I was 17 which is when it came out, I also turned 18 (born later in year) that year just like Lady Bird so it would have been perfect, but I had never heard of it back in 2017, no mention of the movie, from friends or on social media. Edit: Come to think of it, I was not the same person I am now at 23 that I was back then, I probably wouldn’t have appreciated the movie the way I do now.
I left Sacramento.. For San Francisco, Denver, Melbourne, Tokyo.. It's still my hometown. It's still where I'm from. It's still the place I love. I have only fondness for that wonderful city of trees.
I think when she looks at the little boy, she realizes all she has taken for granted. She realize that life is precious and sight is precious and she has a chance to make the world a little better, or a little less dreadful. And her mother gave her that chance. And all this subdues her pride and incites the phone call. Christine reminds me of a modern-day Scarlett O'Hara.
Only when she was far from Sacramento and when her Mom "stopped" caring and giving her attention, was when she realized the things that truly mattered to her. Her love for her mom was like her love for Sacramento
As a teenager I couldn’t stand my mom but now that I’m in my 20s, my mom is everything to me. I would go as far as to say that I harass the poor women every day and call her way too much.
I can relate so much to her relationship with her mother, my and I never got along it is only until now that I have moved away and started my own life where we speak to each other without starting arguments. I love my mother but we are just too different and stubborn to get along sometimes...also I used to hate going to church and my classes but now I miss them and feel closer to Catholicism on the fact that it's what I've known all my life and that I'm not forced into it anymore...love saoirse❤
The ending just doesn't get me. She was leaving for New York; sure a big city and a whole lot of challenges, but her mom should've supported her and stood by her instead of not talking to her, not saying bye to her. Maybe that's why, inside she was feeling miserable. I would have felt horribly bad too. She was just being mature, realized her love for Sacramento and now getting ready to face the world all alone, without her mom.
moving to a big city wont fix my problems people are sad everywhere
Omggg why do I need this Cos i thought it would 😣
when i first realised this is was so depressing but also comforting at the same time
But I really like public transportation like trains
or people can be happy anywhere
Oh gosh i was putting all my hope in moving to a big city for college
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Such a gorgeous ending. It didn't bother for an elaborate confrontational scene. Just a simple phone call that tied up the story and characters' arc (Christine reconciling with her mom and her realizing that she loves Sacramento).
It's just so much more powerful that she's alone when she has the revelation and then reconciles alone.
You’re all gonna hate me for saying this. But i do not like this ending. It’s way too vague. I usually don’t have a problem with vague endings in films. But this is one of those films where it doesn’t work. Throughout the whole film, Lady Bird’s mother had done nothing but treat her daughter like crap. I’m sorry, but if your child applying for and getting into a great college without telling you pisses you off to the point where you pretend they’re invisible, then you shouldn’t be a parent. How do we know this message reconciled everything? For all we know, her mom could’ve erased it immediately after listening to it and forgetting all about it
@@superjackster0165 The movie is so relatable I have the same relationship with my mother. It’s toxic but also in a positive in a way. In the end of the day we’re all humans. Probably you have different relationship with your mother.
@@lovescoffee7189 Still a dumb excuse. If she had avoided talking to Lady Bird for a couple days, i might’ve understood it. But the fact that it was an entire summer is just too unbelievable. Even then, if she felt that Lady Bird passed the limit or felt excluded, why didn’t she just tell her this instead of acting like she was deaf around her? Honestly, the relationship between Lady Bird and her mom just pissed me off. It doesn’t even get resolved
@@superjackster0165 I understand where you're coming from, but mothers are humans with flaws as well. Her mother didn't abuse her, she didn't treat her like crap really, she just didn't know how to show her love. She crumpled up about 10 letters where she expressed her love to her daughter. She broke down crying in the car and went back so she could talk to her but didn't get there in time. These are all realistic, honestly, I wish I had a father like Christine's. My relationship with my mother is the same as Christine's and the ending was perfect. As someone stated above, if we hadn't seen the mother cry and hurry back, I'd probably agree with you.
My favorite scene, so simple, delicate and pure. Lady Bird always wanted more, a bigger life, a better life, something unique and exceptional. She built herself contesting everything she was given. Now she is given a blank page, but she is lost in it. This church is a reminder of all that she used to hate but actually needed to build herself. She is getting a fresh start but she can’t be completely alone, she needs something of her past to reminder her who she is. She understand that what she was given made her and she needs it to carry on. Her name, first of all.
Good analysis 👍
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That's all nice but Christine was still very selfish and immature, even during that phone call she didn't have the balls to overtly say "I'm sorry I was a brat who couldn't appreciate what you'd done for me." She's a very annoying character, I didn't feel much sympathy for her, just for her parents, especially the mother.
@@bartoszwojciechowski2270man, we've all been teenagers.
Sometimes I just remember this scene and start crying and I’m okay with that
I cried at the end of this scene and I'm a boy xD Well... I think I experienced the same situation (I even went to the church).
@@oscaraquite5655 it's so nice when boys show feelings
i literally came here to watch this scene because i just randomly remembered it and started crying
Me too
Yeah, same.
I watched this movie with my mom in theaters. She always falls asleep. But with Lady Bird, she paid attention to everything, even read the subtitles. She loved the ending, me too.
When she forgives her mother, she is forgiving herself too I think
I hated that she forgave her mother when what her mother was doing was unbelievable.
@@foolslayer9416 that's why mother daughter relationship is complicated. even if ladybird was hurting, all she could see was her mother's love for her and that marion wanted nothing but the best for her
@@iwasshockedhoneyiwasintearsMarion still did wrong by her regardless
@@foolslayer9416 Exactly my point, the mom was doing every thing right, yes LB wanted something more and that's awesome, but the mom working double shifts and making every thing works is ny NO means the bad one;
With the viewpoint of personally living in Sacramento and then leaving it for a big city, this is what it felt like. I felt like this
living in a small town, feeling this big time
No one talks about how at the end it almost sounds like she wanted to say “i’m sorry”
but immediately stops herself and opts with a “thank you” instead. Like all this character growth and she still finds it hard to swallow her pride and apologise. It’s realistic and beautiful
Same thing as when she says she's from Sacramento and the guy asks again where she's from and she replies "San Francisco"
I actually think she went to say “I’m gonna be alright” but realized it was pointless. Anytime she tried to share herself with her mom, who she really was I mean, she just got shot down. I think she went to say that and probably realized her mom would just disagree. So she left it at thank you and moved on.
actually she apologized a lot when her mom found out
But what does she need to apologize for?
she had already said sorry Manu times to her mother, came like a crashing. what she did not say very often was a thank you. A sorry was not what her parents needed to hear, everyone knows she is sorry. what the movie wanted and her parents wanted was for her to be a bit grateful. that's why it was a thank you.
Idk why but I started balling in this scene. Especially when she’s says Christine is a good name and then “did you feel emotional the first time you drove in sacramento?” It’s just so beautiful for some reason.
it hurts more when you’re from a small town
Only when you have to leave the place you love do you truly realize how much you love it. Felt this when I had to leave my small hometown too
literally how I felt about my small town, the need to leave for wanting more art & culture and going to college far away in a bigger city, going against my parents wishes of wanting me study closer to home. then doing my first drive back home and realizing the beauty and the little things of my hometown. learning the things I took for granted.
favourite ending scene. gerwig is amazing.
i’ve never connected with a movie character as much as i do with Christine this film has a very special place in my heart
As someone who grew up in a small town thinking I hated it & then moved to NYC in my 20s thinking it would somehow fulfill me... this scene hit me hard. Just got done watching this for the first time and I cried like a baby
was NYC what u imagined it to be?
@@dromeda6066 yes and no… I’m having a great time and I do love it, but it makes you appreciate/miss suburb life if that’s where you originally grew up :)
Jon Brion is seriously a magician with the way he’s able to elevate a scene with his music.
Yes! I thought the music felt (not just sounded) familiar, then I rewatched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind the other day and was like THAT’S IT! It’s truly magical, how he evokes such emotion with song
i love how she called herself christine at the end. it shows how mature she's gotten
i don’t understand how so many people can hate on this movie. this ending is absolutely beautiful
Yes! Ngl, i hated alot of scenes in thid movie (her doing it with kyle, being blasphemous, and ditching Julie), but the ending really brought the whole story together, and its way better upon rewatch!
@@greenergrass4060 That's how the character is made... Nobody is perfect... Even the protagonist
@@greenergrass4060 The movie is realistic maybe that’s why you hate it
@@greenergrass4060 that’s not what he meant 😂
@@greenergrass4060 "Being blasphemous" lol God isn't real
We've had a few of those scenes with our daughters going away to college.... you have an array of emotions hitting you.... the weariness of dealing with teenagers who thought you were amazing when they were young only to thwart you every way possible when they got older. The feeling that you're going to enjoy the peace when they're away, the realisation when you drop them off that they are the most precious important things in your life and you'll miss the noise and endless car ferrying. Then they come home for a weekend and you can't wait for them to leave again but come the next weekend you're wondering if they'll be coming home. Then gradually the time slips by, they make new friend networks... they stay away weekends.... they meet boys, they take more stuff away with them from home and before you know it.... they're gone. Gone out into the world, what you always wanted for them... to be independent and make their own way in life. Its good, you're proud and feel that you've achieved something good as a parent.... but no one prepares you for the quiet house, the empty bedrooms the time you can't fill. It seems that every success has its downside.
this scene changed my life I can't even describe it
this just crushes my soul
This movie literally represents my life, I have pretended to be someone I am not because I have no money, I have changed true friendships for false ones, I am about to enter the u and I do not have much money, I cheated on where I live out of shame, I buy second-hand clothes Sometimes for not having money but if I like it, I can't have everything I want and I have to earn it myself, not all movies have to have a perfect protagonist and with money with an incredible life, not everyone has the same opportunities, I cry with this movie because it is very realistic.
this scene destroyed me omg I've never cried this hard
I think that this scene means that Christine gives the Thanks to all her childhood and let it go like a good remember with a lot of learning, that its hard and also so emotional.
This scene its so important for me because i think that i will feel the same when i turn a Young adult and left my city and all it haves in.
The woman and the infant represent Mary and Jesus which leads Lady Bird to search for God, the child with an eye broken represents the eye of Christine's mother (her attention) over Christine, which she now sees is missing from her life as she behaved recklessly the night before and suffered consequences without having her mom there for her. She comes to term with her "Christine" name which is also a reference to "Christ". Literally my favorite movie from the 10s. Not even evangelical movies get as spiritual and deep as this one.
Wow! Beautifully explained
One way I see it is that she feels super bad and embarrassed about being in the hospital for being too drunk while there are some people who get way more serious injuries
u sound like every english teacher ever
Thank you for selling me on this! I expected any second to see the movie disrespect our faith, and was bent on tracking down the moment so as to not waste my time. Sounds much more nuanced and refreshing than your average Hollywood movie.
I love how this whole film she's obsessing over wealth, partying, rude to her mom, and sleeping around
But literally ends with her realizing the error of her ways and apologizing to her mom.
Yall, the religious themes in this movie 😭 for a teen movie this , is so good. This literally resonated with me as a believer
When Greta Gerwig explains that we feel like life with a capital L is starting somewhere else and when we get to where we think we should be, we realize it’s been all along... Love
I lived in sac for 2 years after undergrad. Recently moved to socal and watching this movie made me realize how impactful sac was to my adulthood. Although I didn’t have a pleasant time in sac, I now realize that it helped me develop certain characteristics that I exercise on the daily. This weekend I am in NY for the first time and I’m making time to visit the church lady bird went to. Idk why but I feel it’s right to just step into it
my mom grew up in sacramento and moved to San Francisco, she loves this movie and could relate to LadyBird a lot 💗
3:17 that transition kills me
This was the saddest shit I have seen
What exactly happened in the end i didn't understand ?
@@shreyapathak4452 she realized she loved sacramento
Idk I guess I don’t have the rhetorical tools to articulate what this scene is but it’s familiar to me. I moved to a big city after high school for college. My first weekend I got so drunk I woke up on a hospital bed. I walked through the city hungover and realized I should probably call my mom. She answered and in that moment I realized I didn’t have to tell her everything. I succeeded on my own. I failed on my own. It was my life. My choices and my responsibility. .
The movie is so relatable especially her relationship with her mother and life in general. It just gives me so much comfort and realize a lot of things.
I remember not thinking much of this movie. My best friend fell asleep on the coach watching it beside me. But when it came to this exact scene I burst into tears and felt so incredibly moved.. dunno what it did to me. I'll never forget the feeling
The matchcut at 3:15 is so damn powerful, even on its own
When I first watched this movie, right before she moves to New York, I thought to myself, “This movie is okay.”
Nothing great, nothing spectacular, just a fine movie.
Then this scene happens, and when she hangs up and the credits roll, I start crying in the theater.
It was that moment that everything just clicked for me. Like, “I get it. It all makes sense to me.”
And now I think this is one of the best movies I have ever seen.
One of the songs that comes to mind when I view the ending of Lady Bird is Ain't it Fun by Paramore. In my opinion, it's the song which genuinely captures the joy of getting what you want while also being depressed at the fact that you may just have lost everything you love in the process of getting what you want.
I just watched this movie and nothing has ever made me cry so much in my life 💔
@ Phantom1641 if you haven’t already watch Perks of being a wallflower, the fault in our stars, etc. you’d like those if you watched this movie.
I’m 19, about to go to college somewhere far away from home and be by myself for the first time. I’m terrified.,I waited all my life for this moment, to leave the small town i live in and go pursue my dreams but all of a sudden I feel like i just wanna stick to my family and friends and never let them go, like a shy child that won’t stop hiding behind her dads legs. But I guess that’s how it’s supposed to be, we all get a little scared before jumping. The truth is everywhere I go I’ll have my own problems and things to cry about, i just have to get tough enough to not let it stop me
this broke me
I’ve got a mother like Lady Birds and this scene and movie just hits different. It give me hope that my mum is going through the same stuff and that we will find a resolution
I'm finally moving out of my home state where I've lived my entire life to NYC in a little less than 8 weeks and this scene is hitting me so hard right now, I can't help but cry.
Before you leave home, your identity is always off somewhere else, then when you grow up and go someplace else...your identity is at home.
I watched this film in the theaters,with my mom, just as I was about to leave for college. At the time, my mom and I would fight a lot over the smallest of things so watching this just gives us a new perspective on our relationship.
Been six years since then and now I live half the world away from her. This film has become a complete masterpiece for me, and it would hit me really REALLY hard whenever I watch it.
Lady Bird hit close to home for me in a lot of ways from growing up in a small southern city while wanting bigger things in life to a complicated relationship with my mother. I even remember asking my mom if she would be friends with me if I wasn't her child. Now that I'm an adult I realize my mom and I are very similar but this time in a teenager's life is really difficult. I said some not nice things to my mom when it came time for college as well and while my mom was never like Marion, we had our share of fights. I think what stands out to me is while Christine grew up, she still kept at the NYC thing if we look at Greta Gerwig's real life. I believe she eventually gets used to New York and follows her dreams but more as a fully realized human.
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The scene where she’s listening to the church is my favorite from the whole movie. It’s so surreal for some reason, and just really peaceful.
will never forget the feeling of watching this part in the movie. i think as you watch you kind of learn to hate sacramento as much as ladybird but in the end it almost feels like you have the same realization as she did. the parallels between her mom and her driving through the streets of sacramento and ladybird finally accepting her name had me sobbing.
this movie really encapsulates the change from adolescence to adulthood
yall i cannot express how sad this music and this scene is for me. i literally cannot stop crying because of how the beauty of Christine's relationship with her mother is portrayed in this movie
this part changed me
i cry at this scene every time.
I feel very connected to this film. Parallels. Living in the Bay Area, wanting to grow up, dysfunctional connections to friends and family. Eventually moving to NYC and growing up. This scene always makes me cry because I've too been on the BK bridge in the rain calling my family to apologize and thank them for all they did.
This movie is so conflicting to me. On one hand, my god the cinematography and aesthetic is beautiful. It's so warm, but it also feels like the warmth of someone else's hot breath in your face. Saoirse Ronan is incredible and when she's the main character, the movie always feels dreamy.
And I love the coming-of-age, letting loose and then having to come back down to earth themes... but I don't know if she really should have thanked her mother like this. I don't know if it should have been framed like it was the 100% correct decision. Her mother did hurt her. (She stops speaking to her own daughter for ages just because she strove to go to college somewhere else?! I do understand the stress of financial things but seriously? You're not even gonna try to help her, or support her in working for it?) Also Catholicism is fuckin heavy on your mental health.
Sure, she learned good lessons, but a lot of them were really from her own experience, not just the realization that maybe her mother was "right" about some things. The mother's visible regret does make me have hope that they could rebuild a healthier relationship... but IDK! The "happy ending" vibe of her saying basically "you were right all along, Mom" makes me feel squirmy because of the emotional shit her mom did to her.
(I think this may also be heavily influenced by the fact that I'm agnostic and have felt a lot of freaky pressure from Christians in my life and the whole concept of blind faith just creeps me out, so idk!)
I understand why you could feel like that way but I don’t think the phone call is her saying her mother was right all along. Personally, I have a similar relationship with my mother (we disagree a lot and can go days not talking then suddenly we’re best friends then she’ll make a snide comment or I’ll say something she doesn’t like and the cycle resets.) I went through a period of my life where I was so certain I hated her and she hated me and I was willing to accept that but (I know it’s cliche) as I got older things changed. I had a moment of clarity like ladybird in this scene.
The relationship between parent and child is so strange but so beautiful. Our mothers are meant to care for us and we grow up knowing them our whole lives but only in the way they fit into ours. We don’t actually begin to know them as people till we get older and start to think about what they were like before us. And sometimes it takes leaving them to realise who they are and how similar we actually are to them. How parts of them are in pieces of us. Ladybird and her mother are so similar like me and mine. And I think the phone call is her realising that though her mother is not perfect (neither is she) that’s not entirely her fault. She’s human and she’s flawed just like everyone. She says mindless and hurtful things. But at the same time she cares for her. In such a simple way that lady bird never stopped to realise it.
I think that the phone call doesn’t mean they won’t fight again (they will as I still do with my mother at times) but not in the same way. Lady bird grows up and I’m sure her mother has a similar revelation though it’s not shown on screen.
I mean, to me, no one is really right or wrong. They both are learning how to grow together and how to be more considerate of each other. That tends to happen in families. Everyone have their own goals and problems that are going to affect each other no matter what, specially in the McPhersons' situation.
However, even though they might argue, they love and need each other still. As we see it here and in the airport scene.
So to me is not much of a "Mom, you were right all along" and more of a "Mom, I will always need you"
(I might've projected a little, idk. I'm really close with my mom and I relate a lot to LadyBird as a son so that's how I see the movie. Even though the movie explores a lot more themes. )
@@UwU-jw6ph one of the best explanations of the film
I completely agree and I've seen other people express the same things. Giving your daughter the silent treatment for moving away isn't okay. It's such a beautiful movie, the cinematography, the dialogue, Greta Gerwig does it all so well and seemingly effortlessly. But this relationship is too hard for me to watch. The ending is basically her apologizing, forgiving, and to me it's the continuation of an abusive cycle she's stuck in. It would've been different if that's acknowledged, but it isn't, instead her mother's behaviour is normalized.
And it worries me, that so many daughters find it relatable, think they're both equally guilty.
The ending wasn’t rly about the religious aspect though, the church scene was there as a reminder of Sacramento and the feeling of home, not necessarily because she had some holy moment of faith.
We all Experience life differently some people have different ways of seeing it
Hi Christine, so nice to meet you.
Last year I visited Anchorage Alaska for about 2 weeks. Enjoyed an extreme amount of independence and even on a few occasions saw natural beauty never thought possible. I would stare off into the mountains, drive through near pitch black roads at 3 am with my friends and feel this immense weight of history everywhere.
I wouldn't necessarily describe my emotions as happy or exhilarated, but instead more so just childhood curiosity.
Every corner explored, every person I spoke to just made me feel this sense of inner light. It's hard for me to retain that feeling in my hometown sometimes but occasionally I come across a majestic cloud, or an extremely kind person.
And for a moment that sense of light comes bursting out and it keeps me going. I will be leaving my hometown perhaps permanently in the next year and I hope that when that time comes I will remember the beautiful mountains that surrounded my city throughout the course of my life.
I'll keep searching for that light.
U will find it
@@Whofuckencares808 thank you. I hope everyone else can too.
I grew up in Woodland. 17 miles Northwest of SAC. This movie feels sort of like home because it’s in the region.
Every single time I watch this scene it makes me bawl, even when watching it in isolation. What an incredible film.
This is my most fav movie. It's actually soo relatable, like how we detach ourselves from our parents and loved ones in terms of adulting. We often forget how much our roots mean to us. Also, this is exactlyyyy the kind of relationship that gets developed between the moms and their kids in the end of teengae
when i first watched this scene, i was annoyed, i didn’t get it. i was annoyed she contacted her mother after what had happened, and i was upset that she didn’t use the name she chose for herself in her new city. that was two years ago and i was in middle school. and now i know that i wasn’t supposed to get it because at the time, i was supposed to be rooting for the child lady bird, because that’s who i related to. i thought it was dumb when she “grew up”. but watching this at an older age i realize that the older you get, the more the ending makes sense. Christine has grown up and come to an acceptation of her life and how she got where she is. i changed my mind on this movie, i love it.
As someone who started in a small town and then moving to a big city, this scene hits so hard. I adore the this scene.
I relate to Christine, not only her name but what she wanted, she wanted an illusion of what she thought was good for her, what she thought was rich and admirable, she was reaching for the unreachable because that's wasn't her story to tell. Christine hated her name just like how I hated my name "Christina" for the longest time, I hated the way it sounded, I wanted to be different, I wanted better and bigger things, I wanted to live a life that wasn't even mine, I was reaching for the things that I most desired but couldn't get, I was immature about wanting instead of realizing what I truly needed. I was In the 10th grade or so when I watched this movie so around 15 Im now freshly 19, in college, in a state far from Texas, lost, confused, trying to figure out who I am, and I felt the exact same way I did when Christine arrived at NY, it's all so surreal figuring out how when I first watched this movie I didn't get it, but now I do, I get it so much, I lied to so many of the people in my life because I wanted this dream, this "American dream" but I will never have it unless I grow up and get myself out of that mindset, why have what others have when I can make my own dream realities. It's such an amazing movie truly, this movie (rewatching it again) has made me realize how much of a bitch I was not just to friends and people I've met, but family.
I really liked this movie, it’s the most relatable teen movie I’ve ever watched, I really wish I had watched this when I was 17 which is when it came out, I also turned 18 (born later in year) that year just like Lady Bird so it would have been perfect, but I had never heard of it back in 2017, no mention of the movie, from friends or on social media.
Edit: Come to think of it, I was not the same person I am now at 23 that I was back then, I probably wouldn’t have appreciated the movie the way I do now.
Fuck me I never not cry when watching this. So grateful to have this film
I left Sacramento.. For San Francisco, Denver, Melbourne, Tokyo..
It's still my hometown. It's still where I'm from. It's still the place I love.
I have only fondness for that wonderful city of trees.
The song is Phil Castillo-For Katelyn for anyone wondering.
This always brings me to tears. Soairse perfectly said things I’d want to say my own mother so which is why it hits so close to home. One day
I cried during the whole movie
This ending has all the feels
i loved this scene, made me tear up a bit
I think when she looks at the little boy, she realizes all she has taken for granted. She realize that life is precious and sight is precious and she has a chance to make the world a little better, or a little less dreadful. And her mother gave her that chance. And all this subdues her pride and incites the phone call. Christine reminds me of a modern-day Scarlett O'Hara.
Gathered that as well
Enjoying the church choir shows how powerful her mom's influence has been.
Only when she was far from Sacramento and when her Mom "stopped" caring and giving her attention, was when she realized the things that truly mattered to her. Her love for her mom was like her love for Sacramento
this movie hits different
This hits different when you’re going to college this fall.
The whole film is beautifully done.
My college dorm is across the street from this church and my heart hurts every time I look at it.
im literally howling sobbing at this still 5 years later
As a teenager I couldn’t stand my mom but now that I’m in my 20s, my mom is everything to me. I would go as far as to say that I harass the poor women every day and call her way too much.
Growing up in sac I recognize all those shots exactly where they are
i hated this scene, her having to apologize is absolutely bullshit. Miriam should, not her
I escaped a small town. I’ve still never made a better decision.
such a beautiful scene
Amazing movie 🎬
I only watched this movie twice.. the second time was to show my bf. I havent seen it since and its honestly bc it hits home too much. :(
Christine 😍❤️
I absolutely love this movie
Perfect ending of a perfect movie. 💙
“Where flowers bloom so does hope.”
Claudia Johnson aka Lady Bird
amazing movie
What a beautiful scene. Says it all.
I love this movie
I remember this scene on Mother's day
Appreciate your origin. It's what you are.
I can relate so much to her relationship with her mother, my and I never got along it is only until now that I have moved away and started my own life where we speak to each other without starting arguments. I love my mother but we are just too different and stubborn to get along sometimes...also I used to hate going to church and my classes but now I miss them and feel closer to Catholicism on the fact that it's what I've known all my life and that I'm not forced into it anymore...love saoirse❤
The ending just doesn't get me. She was leaving for New York; sure a big city and a whole lot of challenges, but her mom should've supported her and stood by her instead of not talking to her, not saying bye to her. Maybe that's why, inside she was feeling miserable. I would have felt horribly bad too. She was just being mature, realized her love for Sacramento and now getting ready to face the world all alone, without her mom.
My favorite piece in the scene, is the choir singing....
Damn. Watching this as a college freshman hits so different
There’s nothing more beautiful to me than driving from SoCal to NorCal.
this scene is really what it feels like to grow up
Rosa Mystica - awesome