where last year's "Lady Bird" followed a brash and combative high school senior through her final year at home, Bo Burnham's lower key "Eighth Grade" shows us a young girl on the eve of moving up to high school and with a personality 180 degrees away. Kayla is shy and awkward to the point of being painful to watch (except when she is recording her upbeat youtube video diaries, which smartly track and comment upon various moments in her offscreen life during the final week of middle school).
Burnham strongly captures the feeling of otherness and insecurity of that age, especially from the POV of a young girl who isn't the most popular or fashionable in the class. even more so in the age of social media and the implications that apps like Snapchat or Instagram impose on their body image and self esteem. but also finding the humor in these various situations, which are often laugh out loud funny.
Burnham strongly captures the feeling of otherness and insecurity of that age, especially from the POV of a young girl who isn't the most popular or fashionable in the class. even more so in the age of social media and the implications that apps like Snapchat or Instagram impose on their body image and self esteem. but also finding the humor in these various situations, which are often laugh out loud funny.
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