I went to see this after falling in love with Derry Girls. While watching the film, something felt very wrong as this was exactly my era and I had a similar background. I said to my friend, it's almost as if its how a man likes to imagine girls to be, heavily stereotyped under the heading Catholic. The script did not ring true on so many levels and really missed an opportunity to explore the vulnerabilities of girls growing up in this setting, and I was right, it's a male author and director. For me Derry Girls is so successful because the characters are loveable and all very different. The girls in this film were very shallow, samey and unintelligent. I may be wrong but when 'girls like this' were getting up to 'trouble' , good old Catholic shame would barely let anyone talk about it and that was the major issue and why there were so many teen pregnancies. Please give us more films with depth and a social conscience when exploring such important topics, Derry Girls did this so brilliantly and with such great humour.
Review of Our Ladies
