Juno-Film Review

Juno was directed by Jason Reitman. It received various awards some being best picture, best director and best actress of the year, going to Ellen Page. Juno is a comedy about teen pregnancy and adoption, Juno falls pregnant and manages to find a couple to adopt her child directly after birth, with the help of her best friend a recent interview. The film was directed to a teenage target audience as the director probably felt that with a film like ‘Juno’ a lot of teenagers would watch it. The filmmakers didn’t wait around to how that Juno I pregnant, from the first scene of the film when we see Juno and Bleaker home alone with a chair in the middle of the room where the sex takes place. Skipping to when Juno goes to get the abortion of her child, he bump into one of her friends from school, who is protesting for ‘anti-abortion’ she reminds Juno that ‘babies have nails’ to scare her and when we see Juno taking a seat in the clinic the protesting outside took an effect on Juno’s choices. She decides to keep the baby, so Juno has to them tell her dad and step-mother the news,Her parents are strangely unshaken by their daughter’s announcement. “I didn’t know he had it in him” I what her dad said to her once she told him, where as any other parent may respond is a negative way, if their child was juno’s age, not really grown up and is still using a classic ‘hamburger phone.’ In the following scene Juno and her best friend (Leah) are looking in the Penny saver for a couple to adopt her child, straight after birth. Mark and Vanessa catch Leah’s eye. When Juno and her dad go to meet Mark and Vanesa, as a viewer we begin to realise that Mark and Vanessa are middle-classed with a lot of money, this good thing for Juno

and her household family and a potential for Juno’s baby alongside Mark and Vanessa. We soon realise that Juno and Mark have a connection through Rock and Roll music, Gibson guitars and Horror, Gore films; Juno cause Mark to reminisce on his youth, this leaves mark with the decision to leave Vanessa later on in the film and re-kindle his love for his past. Overall the idea of the film Juno has a lot of connections with society today. Teenagers falling pregnant and either having to abort the child, give it up for adoption or bring the child up (when they are not mature or stable to have their own child…). Juno is a film that connects with adults too, adults who see through the eyes of Juno’s parents or the situation of Mark and Vanessa making this film a film for everyone to watch, enjoy and learn from.