Mimosa's Thoughts

Though not a teenager anymore, I still enjoy my coming of age movies based in high school. Lady Bird is about a girl in her senior year of high school dealing with teenage problems and an annoying mother. Who as usual does not understand her daughter at all. But instead of making the mother too over the top like in other movies, this film allows you to understand where she is coming from and feel sympathy at certain points for her. I would like to say congratulations to Greta Gerwig for being nominated for an academy award for her amazing work. Saoirse Ronan was amazing as usual, she is a favorite actor of mine. Her portrayal of Lady Bird was on point and I had many instances where I related to her. Also, can I just say that it angers me how people with strong accents can talk in an incredible American accent while us Americans suck at doing any other accent besides our own. But back to Saoirse. There were moments when I was like come on, use your common sense. That o...

I was finally able to get to watching some of the Oscar nominated movies of 2018. The first one I got to watch was The Shape of Water which to me was just a lovely story set in 1962 Baltimore, following a mute custodian at a high-security government laboratory who befriends a captured humanoid-amphibian creature. It gave me The Little Mermaid vibes and Ariel is my favorite Disney princess. Except in this case the girl is human and becomes a sea creature instead of the other way around. I enjoyed this movie use of a mute person, which allowed you to see the physical chemistry between the animal and Elisa. But I will mention that the scene where they have sex kind of creeps me out. Though anyone should be able to be with who they want to be, it still grossed me out. Also, why did Elisa assume a towel by the door was going to stop water from coming out of the bathroom???? My favorite aspect of this movie though was the soundtrack/score. Though most of was in French, so I ...