Everybody needs someone to love them

Rating: Null/10 (18 September 2011)

Juno is about a teenage girl, Juno MacGuff, which gets pregnant after only one time with her friend Paulie Bleeker. Then Juno has to tell her father, Mac and stepmom Bren who are not exactly thrilled about the whole thing. Juno decides that the best thing she can do is put the baby up for adoption. She finds a couple, Mark and Vanessa Loring to be the adoptive parents. Throughout the movie the theme of loving the ones that you have around you. That theme is showed in the fact that Juno's family loves her throughout the whole pregnancy. The dad and stepmom do what they can for her and don't get mad and want to disown her for her mistake. Juno does not know how she feels about her love toward Bleeker. The Loring couple who at first appear to love each other end up separated in the end. Their story shows that love is not always forever. The other aspects of the movie are of Juno trying to still fit in at school while she seems to be becoming an outcast. Bleeker wants to be with Juno and try to do what is right but is afraid to because of how the others at school may feel. Juno also does not seem to want him around. Love is complicated at any age, especially when one is a teenager. It is even more complicated when a teenager is pregnant. As in the case of the Lorings, they show that adults have trouble with the concept of love. Lighting themes in the movie is apparent throughout. One scene that shows an example of how lighting is used is after she finds out that she is pregnant. She walks home in the dark, representing the way she may have felt after finding out the news. The lighting is appropriate in other aspects also. Since the movie takes place over the length of a pregnancy the season changes. The winter scenes are filmed with the darkened winter skies and snow on the ground. Motif in the movie reveals another important aspect of a teenager's life. That is that everyone needs a good friend or two in their life to have around to be there for them. Also the movie shows that teenagers can make the right decisions, even if they have made bad ones in the past. Another movie that has one character that loves another but the other one is not sure they feel the same way is The Holiday. The characters are falling in love with each other but realize it at different times. Juno doesn't realize she loves Bleeker for a while and the two couple in The Holiday realizes it eventually. Love can happen at the most unexpected time with the most unexpected person. If you find that love you should keep it as long as possible. As we have seen love is not a guarantee.