![]() ![]() The terror of being the last to enter the pool at the party being handled like a scene out of a horror flick. It helps that Burnham structures the film in such a way that every scene is handled from Kayla’s perspective. From nervous moments of hesitation filled with “umms” and “uhhs” to concern surrounding a crush or even fitting in, Fisher illustrates each of these benchmark teenage tendencies with remarkable efficiency. The young actress emulates, and in some ways likely relives, the tumultuous time that adolescence can bring. However, none of this extremely well-written material would land quite as hard without Elsie Fisher. The material is handled in a way that plugs the audience into this girl’s life, not for meaningful moments, but for the mundane details. And yet, director and writer Bo Burnham manages this is such a unique and genuine way that rivals the best of the best coming-of-age films. The most perplexing element of Eighth Grade is how a 27-year-old man manages to capture the innate awkwardness of a 13-year-old middle school girl. ![]() Thirteen-year-old Kayla (Elsie Fisher) endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school - the end of her thus far disastrous eighth-grade year. The same typical problems of braces, body odor, and popularity still linger, but the presence of the internet, and more importantly social media, takes the anxiety of those issues and amplifies them to new, and frightening, heights. It never has been, but through Bo Burnham’s portrayal of the modern troubles of teenage life, it certainly seems as though it may be worse than ever. ![]()
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