Juno, poor kid that made us laugh.

Rating: 7/10 (18 January 2008)

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There are films technically flawless, good acting, superb direction, nice script you know everything looks fine. But still it leaves you with a bitter taste...
Juno is a movie, it's actually the name of the girl that movie is about. This sixteen year old young lady learns that she's got pregnant from her first sex experience with a classmate boy who doesn't seem to aware of a sh*t! Then she first goes to him to tell that she's pregnant and she doesn't get any intelligible response from him. She decides to go to abortion, by the way she's discussing the situation with her closest girl friend and we learn this kind of issues are not so unknown to those teenagers since they know abortion center and all the other stuff about it. At this point it's the question that comes to our mind why they didn't protect themselves while having sex, but movie is all about "this kind of things do happen!".
Juno first goes to abortion center but cannot bare it and turns back.
Then Juno and her girl friend come up with an incredible solution, they found a adoption couple from newspaper ads. So baby will goto a loving and caring nice family and everything will be fine. But before that they must tell the situation to Juno's family, her father and stepmother.
Juno does that, and surprisingly her parents take this very calmly. They don't actually comment on this. Juno and her father go to adopting family, they are rich, nice, willing to a have the baby and everything is okay.
Then pregnancy goes on, Juno's belly getting bigger and bigger.
Juno and adopting father interestingly becomes friends. Juno visits him time to time, they seem to have common interests like music, horror movies and such.
On her last visit, Juno and the guy (husband of adopting family) gets real close, I mean they dance and hug. Here we clearly see that Juno is a poor lonely girl, hungry for love, she's seeking love or to be loved everywhere or with everyone. Her stepmother, whose a very nice woman as an stepmother in fact, tells once to Juno after one of her visits to adopting family's husband, "I know you, stop going to him, he's married, you cannot drop by anyones house like that", I think this scene is one of the key points of the movie, should have been more emphasized.
But husband tells Juno that he doesn't actually want the baby, his wife is crazy about having the baby, he gave the ad to newspaper expecting no one to reply. He's not happy with the marriage and he's going to divorce. At this point wife arrives home and Juno leaves their house crying. But couple hours later she comes back and gives them a note which we did not see at that time.
Juno and her stupid boyfriend become friends again, at this point we think they'll have the baby together and (even) they'll marry.
She gives birth the baby, but adopting family, I mean only the wife, takes the baby, because the note Juno left says to wife "I am still in, if you're in".
Then everything is good. Juno and her boyfriend sing a song together and movie ends (I'm not kidding!).
I was really shocked when I watched a TV show about teenage-pregnancy one or two years ago. There were families (mostly mothers), and they say "we should inform our children about safer sex and blah blah .. " But nobody talked about morals. Sex without marriage is bad enough (of course in my believing) but letting your 13 year old kid to intercourse with someone and to learn that she's pregnant must be the worst thing can happen to any parent.
And NO woman (yes she's a women now) can cope with giving away her baby easily. It must be catastrophic for her. Something that will go with her all the way her life. If you take a puppy from it's mother, mother dog cries for a week at least!
As some of other comments said, nice movie about very tough topic, and sometime it feels that movie makes things to look less worse than actually they are..
Poor kid Juno forgive us for laughing at you or what happened to you.