Ladybird (2018) - a locational perspective

Home is not just where you’re from, it’s not just a location but a relationship - the kind that creates your role and shapes how you interact, it’s the kind of relationship that won’t ever get out of.  When I first watched this movie, I was looking at it from the media’s take on mother-child relationships, and yes, that was present but not as explored as the relationship with your origin 

The bends I’ve known my whole life, the shops and traffic that I see every day - They’ve taken up my attention so many times and I’ve gotten frustrated at them. Isn’t it the same thing? Love and attention. I noticed that the film's exploration of Christine’s relationship with her mom is an allegory for her relationship with her home. Her mother gets frustrated with her little carelessness - two towels in the shower or ruined eggs, they are inconveniences. But the amount of attention she pays to her is just how much she loves her child, how crazy her child drives her because of how much she matters to her. 

In the same way, Sacramento is “suburban, lacking in conflict” and how Christine wants to live through something but once she leaves she realizes the huge part of her that was borne out of Sacramento, the dull adjectives are replaced with nostalgia.