Ben: Someday you'll be back here, honey. On your terms

Rating: 10/10 (5 November 2010)

An October-June adventure for a 16-teen and her environment: the movie Juno, 2007. The ex-stripper Brook Buseys Oscarawinning JUNOscript, the first of four, name changed to Diablo Cody from ''El Diablo,'' a song she heard while passing through Cody, Wyoming after her Vegas wedding. The movie is a perfect example how it could be but seldom is. Not only the good-enough father Ben, also the good step-mother Brenda (where are such parents in reality outside the dream factory Hollywood), the around 40 man boy Mark Loring, a jingle writer for commercials and husband to the-desire-for-a-child-longing Vanessa. When it is real for him, it is 'a little bad timing', answering Vanessa what good timing is: 'There's just some things that I still want to do.' 'To be a rock star? I'm just saying that this is - this is something that's never gonna happen. You know -Your shirt is stupid. Grow up. If I have to wait for you to become Kurt Cobain, I'm never gonna be a mother.' A reality fairytale by a screen writer who learned what life is through the eyes of her customers. For the sensible Juno it is time for the traditional experiment, asking her sheepish best friend Paulie Bleeker for support. And: pregnancy. Followed by visiting an abortion clinic. Followed by her decision to deliver (the parents are informed and Bren to her husband, 'You know, of course, it wasn't his idea.'). The sensible Juno is too young and unwilling to raise a baby. Followed to browse ads for adoptive parents in the Penny Saver. Juno never backs from her decision, even then when Mark knows for sure, what every man boy should do and not does, and speaks of his unreadiness for fatherhood and family. His decision confronts Juno with questions she never bothered of, supported by her sensible father, they daddy talk and she self thinks. The written note, Diabolo Cody wrote the note, Juno leave at their doorstep. This note, we read it near the end of the movie, inspired of what could happen 'beyond' the movie. We have the 'grand'-parents Brenda and Ben. Juno as Vanessa's friend and the growing baby boys 'big sister'. The mother Vanessa, Juno's model when her time has come to be the good-enough mother. We should not forget the tender moment what her father says after the delivery: Someday you'll be back here, honey. On your terms.' After Bleekers high school cross-country teams winning run, he races to Juno's room after her delivery. He decides not to see the baby. 'Neither did I' Juno says to herself, 'really, he didn't fell like ours. I think he was always hers.' The nurse to Vanessa: 'Would you like to meet your son, Vanessa grasping: 'I have a son. I'm gonna. Is this. Am I' and Brenda: 'Like a new mom. Scared ...' June, cycling to Bleeker: 'As boyfriends go, Paulie Bleeker is totally boss. He's the cheese to macaroni. And I know people are supposed to fall in love before they reproduce. But I guess normalcy isn't really our style.' Belongs the future really to them as parents? Both are teens with everything it means. The movie closes, both sitting outside the house, sensible knowing what they are and what not. It is not theirs but the screen writers thoughts and words. Rocketed to Oscarfame with everything connected to it. But: down to earth attitude what her ex profession needed. She couldn't afford sky thinking. The note, decorated in a fancy frame above the baby bed will be there when the boy eventually asks if it was Juno who wrote the lines and what they mean: 'Vanessa, If you're still in I'm still in. Juno.'