Juno

Rating: 5/10 (6 March 2008)

Juno I read many good reviews on IMDb about this movie, and it while I write this review it is currently rated at no. 148  best movie list.
The story is about a 16 year old girl Juno (played by 20 year old Ellen Page) who finds that she is pregnant by a simpler and ordinary guy, Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera). She decides for abortion  but finding that the baby in the womb might have grown nails  decides to mother the baby. She concludes that she will find a suitable rich, good and lovely couple to rear her child  she finds one in Vanessa (Jennifer Garner) and Mark (Jason Bateman). Juno delivers the baby  but in doing so, gets in touch with some basic truths of life and love.
This movie is a big hit among young girls. The theatre I sat in to see this movie, 80 percent of the audience was below 18 years girls. (I was surely surprised and shy) The movie has also won the Oscars for best original screenplay writing  the award goes to Diablo Cody. A lot of the credit for what the movie has turned out to be should go to three persons  one Diablo Cody, second the director Jason Reitman (Thank you for smoking) and third the actress Ellen Page (who is acting since she is 10 years old).
Diablo Cody  a media graduate, turned secretary, stripper, blog / storywriter turned screenwriter is an inspirational life to read. She creates this character Juno  smart and over confidence beyond her age, and delivers dialogues that are not heard routinely. There are so many sequences in the movie that are so unreal but is not the fictional movie industry a fantasy? Jason Reitman  sticks to the simplier task of pure screenplay adaptation. Ellen Page  portrays a difficult character, that is difficult to perceive  let alone play it. A 16 year old girl talking the language of a lady who is older than 26-27 years of age.
I think, the trigger of connect with this movie could be a whipped up psyche of gender equality hungry audiences who gets a straw to hang on with this bold persona.
Apart from that, the best part of the movie is the musical score by Matt Messina  it so touchy.
The relationship between the couple Vanessa and Mark (looking to adopt a baby) is so deceptively written  always ahead of what the audiences think  that it is really entertaining and intelligent.
The last 20 minutes of the movie are the most engrossing and best. The vivid superficiality until that point converts to a deeply touching wind-up.
I have never come across such careless, dis-respectful and arrogant character and it surely is difficult to accept.
The sad part of gender equality - especially relating to women - is that the trend of futuristic women are shown having all the bad behavior, bad characteristic, bad thoughts and bad actions of men - ie abusive, aggressive, over-confident etc. Now a days people think that this is good and intelligent thing, but I am not sure!? (Stars 5.25 out of 10)