Juno (2007)

Juno (2007)
Directed By: Jason Reitman
Starring: Michael Crea, Ellen Page, J.K. Simmons
Viewed: 29/3/2012

Plot: A young girl (Ellen Page) named Juno is impregnated after a night with her boyfriend (Michael Cera). Feeling she is "ill-equipped" to take care of it, being in high school, she decides to hand her baby over to a married couple hoping to adopt. Juno breaks up with her boyfriend after a misunderstanding, but soon afterwards, the husband of the married couple moves away, feeling he is unready. After many doubts, Juno reunites with her boyfriend, and lets the wife take her baby, and become a single mother.

Review: For a drama about pregnancy, this is a very colourful movie, even in quite dark rooms, and even when something quite dramatic is happening. Apart from that, this is shot and edited quite conventionally, with few tricks involved. Its scored with a lot of modern-sounding acoustic guitar music, with singers slurring their lyrics and very loudly breathing in between sentences. It quite defies conventions, too, there are plently of naturalistic strong female characters, whilst the males seem very downplayed and unhelpful/incompentent. Generally, this is a well-made and sensible movie.