![]() The camera is also well-employed as it alters between hovering over Kayla (literally bringing us into her world and we Steadicam with her) and locking its gaze upon her (forcing us to recognize the girl that would otherwise disappear in such scenes). The soundtrack and mix bring us into Kayla’s world as music rises and falls with the proximity of her pink iPhone earbuds. From the very beginning, we are immersed in a world of rubber bands on braces and stacked Crayola markers, one of prerecorded sex-ed classes and terrible brass renditions of “The Star Spangled Banner,” of overwhelming waves of hormones and uncontrollable acne.īurnham’s direction is critical in creating this experience. It takes place during one of the more difficult parts of Kayla’s young life-not for any particulars, but for the universal terribleness that is the middle school experience. Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade is a work of cinematic portraiture its subject is Kayla Day.
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