"Eighth Grade" Little Girl Eighth Grade
Thirteen-year-old Kayla (Elsie Fisher) is just a week away from graduating from junior high school. She is a chubby girl with pimples on her face, taciturn and easy to be shy, just like an ordinary girl in the class who always hides in the corner. It's not surprising that she is very envious of the popular class flower who looks down on her.
Young, but ambitious. When she entered the eighth grade, she set a goal for herself, that is, to be confident, make countless friends, and then find the most popular little handsome guy as her boyfriend. She has a video blog of her own, where she records all her plans. It's a pity that after a year, she found that she had achieved nothing, and she was still the lonely and shy little girl.
At home she lives with her father (Josh Hamilton). The poor father struggled to communicate with her, but his daughter was a daughter. He just found him annoying and always kept him away thousands of miles away. Hide in your room whenever you get the chance.
It was Ban Hua's birthday treat that day, so her mother invited Kayla to play, and she didn't want to go when she saw Ban Hua's unconcerned look on her face. But her father's nagging forced her to go. Before she went out, she even mobilized herself to summon the courage to go to Ban Hua's house. Everyone was happily playing by the swimming pool. She huddled in the corner by herself, and not many people talked to her. After returning home, she wrote a blog post to strengthen her self-confidence. Although everyone still ignored her existence, she still foolishly pursued that handsome guy. She agreed to perform oral sex for the little handsome guy, and then found a lot of videos on the Internet, and even found a banana to practice.
In order to prepare them for entering high school, the school arranged for high school students to specifically guide them. Her tutor Olivia (Emily Robinson) is the opposite of her personality, an outgoing, warm-hearted girl. She followed Olivia to class and dinner. This day is a happy day. She envied Olivia so much that she was no longer afraid of growing up. When she called Olivia, she stammered with excitement.
When Olivia asked her to go to the mall, she couldn't express her joy. When she saw senior students arguing fiercely about things she didn't understand, she was very envious, and only hoped that she would grow up soon. There is another one, on the way home, she resisted the temptation of the little boy in the same car and went home safe and sound.
On this day, Kayla's whole person had a new sublimation. Those expectations and plans before, now seem a little pediatric. She burned the past as a farewell to yesterday. Then say hello to Dad. And just like that, she thought she was starting a new page.
She mustered up her courage and went to the house of a young boy in her class. Who knows, he is more cramped, nervous and stammered than Kayla. This meeting was such a perfect ending, she finally had her first date and was ready for her to enter high school.
Once again, she was cheering herself up for entering high school. No matter how good or bad high school is, this level cannot be escaped. Look forward to it. Because this is just the first stop to enter the university.
Most of the teenagers in the movie are high school students, because they have vivid images, they can have entanglements between boys and girls, and they can also hesitate to go to society, and our memory of high school is updated. Another important reason is that most moviegoers are high school students. For smaller ones, there are many adventure films, and very few really describe the psychology of children.
For the Chinese, cultivating children into talents is a big thing as a parent. Not a tiger mother or at least a wolf father, if you don't get into an Ivy League school, at least it's a state university. All of this has to be taken from the doll, and it has to be taken with care, and when the child enters high school, it is basically out of control. It can be said that the eighth grade is a pass. After this, the two generations will gradually drift apart, and parents must take it seriously, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous. Kayla's psychological changes can also be a reference.
The film is also an A24 film. And several A24 films were nominated for the Independent Spirit Film Award. The other two films are "Leave No Trace" and "First Reformed" (see my blog posts "The Life of "Leaving No Trace" , " The Priest of the First Reformed "). And Elsie Fisher was nominated for Best Actress and Josh Hamilton was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. If you are interested in A24, there is a " Canopy " website on the Internet, you can watch A24's films for free.
Directed by: Bo Burnham Bo Burnham was nominated for an Independent Spiritual Film Award for screenwriting.
Elsie Fisher was also nominated for an Independent Spirit Film Award for leading actress.
Josh Hamilton is nominated for an Independent Spirit Film Award for Supporting Actor.
Emily Robinson was born in New York, a former model and theater actress.
View more about Eighth Grade reviews
