An after film review

Rating: 7/10 (18 February 2008)

Juno is a terrific film about a teenage girl who finds herself pregnant. Ellen Page truly deserves an Oscar for her outstanding performance as Juno, the pregnant teenage girl.
Juno comes across as a girl who is headstrong but soft on the inside. Usually for teenage mums, there is a lot of trauma and confusion at the news of pregnancy. But Ellen Page portrays Juno as a happy-go-lucky girl next door and this, despite the lack of support from the unwilling father.
And yet, when after she has found what she perceives as a loving couple with all the means of providing her child with a comfortable and caring life in contrast to hers ( Mother divorced when she was young), she was devastated to learn that the would be father of her child was intent on divorcing his wife and making out with her.
The next scene of her crying in the car is probably the most emotional scene in the movie. In the next few scenes, she constantly questions herself if there is anything such as true love or if it is possible for a couple to live happily throughout their lives.
Juno never once did show her anguish at school for for being ridiculed at being pregnant. And yet, we could see that it was not because she was impervious to others. In the scene with Bleeker, the child's natural father, she expressed her jealousy of Bleeker going out with another girl and she broke down at the trauma that she was going through as a youth undergoing pregnancy in high school. The conversation she had with Bleeker was nothing short of powerful and moving.
Page definitely deserves an Oscar as her role as Juno, and Juno is a terrific film that everyone should watch. Everyone will have something to learn from Juno.