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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I saw this last night, finally, and found it really moving.

Who ever would have thought that BO BURNHAM would make this beautiful story about awkward girls?

My nine year old daughter has anxiety and this film really spoke to me.  I loved the relationship between her and her dad, and I loved her thoughts at the end of the movie.[/quote]

did you rent it?[/quote]

I watched it via Amazon Prime on our Roku.

I did a little reading about the movie since I watched it Friday or Saturday.  Burnham made it because he experienced such terrible anxiety as a 25 year old comedian and he wanted to tell something about what that was like, and said something like, nobody understands what anxiety was like like a 25 year old comedian or a 13 year old girl, and since the latter's experience was more universal and he found a really good actress to play Kayle, that was the way he went with it.  He also said something like, he wanted to make this movie in the immediacy of his feelings about it, and not looking back on everything with nostalgia.  He said he watched a LOT of youtube videos of tweens and teens giving advice and talking about their lives, and he said the boys talked about sports and teams while the girls talked about their <i>souls</i>.

I really thought the film was so, so special.  It won't speak to everyone -- it probably won't speak to kids who have an easy time making friends and getting through school.  But it really, really spoke to me, a little about my own middle school/high school experience and a little bit about my daughter who isn't there yet but I can see where things might be going.  I just love that he did this.  I love that a man made this special little picture about adolescent girls and their feelings and that he wasn't creepy about it and now it exists out there in the world.  It's a lovely, lovely film.[/quote]

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