Im late, I know, but I finally saw it. Juno. The 'freaks and geeks' backwards fairytale of teenage love and the premature ejaculation of a child in their midsts. I had heard so much about the film that it is a wonder how I didnt rush to see it. But if I dwell on woulda, coulda, shouldas...It is truly a romance under the guise of a cynical teen drowning in the waters of an unplanned pregnancy, while trying to find ideal 'real' parents for her baby. The twist: her high school boyfriend truly loves her, even with the bun in the oven and the picturesque pickett-fence couple she finds have a few problems of their own.
Juno is ironic, funny, witty, and surprisingly realistic for a mainstream film. Oops! Almost forgot - the Diablo Cody screenplay started its avalanche into success at small indie film fests and grew. Alot. And happily so. I think this film says so much without saying anything at all: shit happens and life goes on and you arent shit for the shit that happens...your just normal. Whatever that is. I especially love how the character Juno was depicted; way too young to have a kid, but so smart, cool, and aware of the world around her and not stuck in a mall somewhere like Hollywood would have us all thinking. For the record, girls do more than shop ("What?! Shut cho mouth!"). Shes confident, not cocky, yet vulnerable and so young. At times you forget how young she is, until a scence places her in the backpack jungle of high school and, yep, your memory is jared. It is her youth that lets the pregnancy scream 'mistake' and 'do over'...if only it were that easy.
