Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Reader Response #3- Juno
I
personally love the movie Juno. I wasn’t sure that I would like it when it
first came out, but it turned out to be really funny. It all started with a
chair in Juno’s friend Bleeker’s room. Juno and her best friend
did….unthinkable things ;). I love how the beginning of the movie starts how
Juno is walking around town chugging a huge container of Sunny-D. She ends up
walking to the local store to buy a pregnancy test and finds out she is
pregnant. I’m sure that that’s a scary situation for a sixteen year old. I know
I would be flipping out beyond anything imaginable! Anyway, Juno decides to
give her baby up for adoption, so Juno and her friend look in a newspaper to
find a couple that wants to adopt a baby.
Juno and her dad meet the couple and Juno instantly connects with the
husband and for a bond through their taste of music. The husband ends up
wigging out by the time that the baby is born, which I think is TERRIBLE! I
honestly didn’t see it coming when I first watched this movie. By the time the
baby is born Juno and Bleeker are friends again and sort of in a relationship.
Vanessa, the wife, takes the baby anyway to raise it and Juno and Bleeker have
a heart to heart moment where there is no dialogue. I realize that I just did
my entire readers response more about the movie than the actual text…but I
don’t care. I can see where critics would say that this movie is bad for young
girls to watch because Juno isn’t a good role model, but they make it sound
like it was all rainbows and smiles for her. Juno struggled and you could see
that in parts of the movie as well.
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I did the same exact thing in my blog about! I just rambled about the movies a little bit. I thought it was hard to go off of what they said in the text after I already seen the movie. I have seen the movie Juno and I loved it just as you did! I thought that it was a great movie and I didn’t see how she was such a bad influence on young kids when personally I don’t think young kids should be watching the movie to begin with. I think she made the right choice on giving the baby up for adoption! The fact that she said she didn’t want pictures of the baby after the fact and everything just shows that, that would just make it much harder on her. I think that the way she talked and the way she said things in the movie is what kept the mood up and not down and depressing. I also think that now day’s parents don’t even get surprised when their young daughters come home pregnant anymore. I feel like the shows “Teen Mom” and “16 and Pregnant” had the biggest impact on young girls! I love how in the movie Juno she shows the responsibility on actually looking into who she wants to give the baby to instead of not caring and just giving it to anyone. I am honestly glad she chose to give it up instead of abortion. Just like in the movie “they have finger nails ya know!”
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