It’s time we grow up!!

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Most people must have met Frances somewhere in their life. Remember that someone in you, who refused to grow up, who believed that that your best friend will always be with you? Frances Ha is a story of a girl played by Greta Gerwig who comes to New York to realize her dream of becoming a dancer. Movie opens on a happy note, we see Frances and her best friend Sophie living together, enjoying good times, but this bubble bursts soon when Sophie decides to move out and stay with a friend who apparently she has a dislike for. Frances is that stupid friend who gives away her chance to move in with her boyfriend to be around Sophie. Her breakup with her boyfriend looks frivolous. Frances loves Sophie, she has those dreams where she thinks Sophie will become a writer and cover her story and they both will be successful together. Our dear Frances doesn't realize that her friend’s life has her own path which is different from hers. It’s endearing the way she hugs Sophie in the night and asks her ‘tell me the story of us.’ Well, that’s just a little heartbreak which she learns to deal with.

Frances moves on to live with two guys who she happens to know through Sophie. What makes Frances bear all the heartaches and disappointment with a smile? She has a lot to deal with, Sophie’s walking out on her, doubled with her getting temporary fired from her job as an apprentice with a dance company and dealing with the fact that her best friend plans to get married to a bigwig. What makes her face all the shit that life dumps on her is her belief, her positivity, and her sheer grit to come to terms with life without getting bitter by it. She accepts the fact that she is 27, she looks older than her age, and that she is temporarily fired and she can’t afford to pay her rent.

 Life becomes easier for her when she enjoys the moments she has with those around her. Her conversations with Lev and Benji silently vouch for her desire to come to terms with life. On surface Frances may come across as a weirdo who forces her company on people, who joins dinner parties where she isn’t invited, strikes those long awkward conversations with people, express her opinion on her best friend and selfishly takes favor from people she has hardly known, even with all these traits she has something appealing about her. She isn't pretentious; she is never afraid or ashamed of being what she is. Her stint in Paris, her refusing to take up the desk job at the company, her doing events to make up for her financial loss speaks of strength she possesses. Surviving in a city where friends have turned hostile is not easy but she manages it as she knows the art of surviving.

Some people learn things hard way out. It’s only after Sophie moves on after her last encounter with Frances and her stay over at her place that she embraces the reality. It dawns much later on her that ‘sometimes it's good to do what you're supposed to do when you're supposed to do it.’ She realizes friends are good to have but you have to have a life of your own. It’s this realization that makes her take up the job she refused once and go back to becoming a choreographer. She makes compromises and learns what she needs to do. She is not a dancer but someone who aspires to be one, she works hard on it, fails but she learns to realize her dream, she finds a way to stay connected with dance. It’s just not the way she wants but she makes peace with that little alteration in her dream.

Can there be any better ending than having your friends witness your little success?  Happy are those who like things that look like mistake and Frances possesses that courage to make that mistake look beautiful. Happy are those who learn to grow up without being bitter and who learn to find a balance between dreams and reality.