A Guide To a Teenage Pregnancy

Rating: 10/10 (7 April 2008)

Juno is a sweet little guide to the teenage pregnancy. They say a child can not have child, you have to grow up first to have kids. This movie more or less backs this idea with the most rational approach possible, which creates a number of witty statements, tough decision making and a perfect resolution.
Pregnancy is the last thing you need when you are 16, but sometimes it happens and you have to deal with it. Juno is so practical and mature about it. She can't have a baby now, she is badly equipped as she says herself. She decides to carry that baby out, when the other option turns out not so appealing, but she will give it for adoption.
The way that 16 years old girl deals with the pregnancy is amazing, it is like it doesn't affect her life at all, she goes to school, she still meet her friends and even the father of the baby. Her parents are probably the most important characters in the movie, because their understanding and reasonable attitude towards the matter of question give Juno the freedom to do the right thing. Along the way she finds love, not where she was looking for it, but the true one, for herself and her baby.
I have to say that the characters are more real than the situation they are in, which makes them appear truthful. Life can throw anything at you the way you handle it is what defines you.