Christopher Alexander

The only thing this movie successfully portrayed was the teenage naivety about the the pursuit of a college education and the financial neglect of parents who place such children in colleges they are not meant to be in. If anyone thinks this is funny--- then it truly shows that America has a problem. Lady Bird did not want to go to the East Coast to become intellectually stimulated. She did not take her academic seriously at all. She was a compulsive liar and seemed to not ever acknowledge the consequences of her actions. She is a by product of our society's endorsement of the facade of academic elitism.- "If I go to this name college, I will be successful and my life will change!". The parents also made no sense. The clinically depressed father is unemployed and goes behind the mother's back to help Lady Bird with applying to a school that she had no business attending. To prove case in point, her parents take out a second mortgage for her, only for the audience to see she gets drunk. The mother, is the primary source of the family's income, defies all rationality and the reality of her finances and approves the mortgage. This movie is not funny. It is a reflection of the financial tragedy our generation is experiencing now.