Spielberg has chosen to elegize the story by romanticizing it, swathing the characters in Norman Rockwell attitudes, a meddlesome symphonic score, and a golden fairy dust that .
Each scene, whether it means to elegize or horrify, is unrelenting, unmodulated, rabid with its own righteousness.
She must simultaneously experience and elegize the high spirits of her teens, and she accomplishes the feat with grace, wit and feeling.