Juno

Since I didn't get to see all of a Bronx Tale, even thought I saw it last year, I don't think I know enough about it to blog about. However, I did see Sal's post about Juno and thought it was very interesting. I saw the movie over Winter Break and I loved it. However, it was until I read Sal's blog that I realized that the pregnancy itself was never really shown as a negative thing. One possibility is, since the writer did say that this was a story of maturing, he didn't want people to focus just on the pregnancy itself. Instead, maybe he was simply using the pregnancy as a metaphor. If the writer wanted to make a movie about pregnancy, I imagine that he would have focused much more on the social, emotional, and physical effects of pregnancy. However, the fact that Juno was pregnant during the movie was focused upon, just in a different way. Thinking back now, it's weird to realize that although the entire movie revolved around her pregnancy, it wasn't in the way that most movies about teen pregnancy would be. I think that the movie is using the pregnancy to show the conflicts of maturing of growing up, instead of showing the conflicts of pregnancy. When I first saw the movie, I thought it was simply just a cute movie about teen pregnancy, but I never got the impression that it was giving off the message that it was ok to get pregnant as a teenager. Maybe others did, but I think most movie goers knew going into the movie that it was simply going to be light-hearted and entertaining. Nonetheless, I am glad I'm now able to understand that the movie really wasn't about the pregnancy as much as it was showing how Juno adapted to growing up and maturing.