Juno MacGuff: I’m pregnant.
Paulie Bleeker: What should we do?
Juno MacGuff: Well, I should just… I was thinking I’d just nip it in the bud before it gets worse. Because they were talking about in health class how pregnancy… It can often lead to an infant.
Paulie Bleeker: Typically, yeah… Yeah that’s what happens when our mothers and teachers get pregnant.
A rare free day has come my way today, and I spend it with my mother and cousin Nenette in Mall of Asia… It was a tight decision between Jumper and Juno… As much as Jumper sounded cool, as it’s like a superhero movie, we ended up watching Juno.
You would think I’d be sick of seeing pregnant people by now. But it was kind of a refreshing movie to me, and I wish a lot more people would watch it and reflect on their own values themselves.
First let’s talk about the characters that they portray… Main opinion: I LOVED IT… I loved that each person seemed to be flawed (like all people are supposed to be). There is of course the very young and totally unprepared teenage girl who becomes pregnant. There’s the guy who is the father of the baby in her who (as you can see in the poster), looks like a complete dork with his mini running shorts and his golden headband and wristbands… There’s the cheerleader best friend who is so into her very older professor… There’s her dad, who is now in his 2nd marriage… Ya get it? But no matter how flawed these people are, what makes them so inspiring is how understanding they are to one another… Juno understood (although a little late) that she is dealing with something beyond her maturity level, but she does the right thing by telling all people involved (Paulie her “boyfriend” and her own parents). Her parents didn’t force her to marry the guy who had sex with her, but instead, their first decision was to make a doctor’s appointment and to start her on prenatal vitamins (ahh… an OB’s dream patient)…
Then there is the music, the soundtrack… It kinda sounds like the Ditty Bops (ok so not a lot of people know the Ditty Bops). The songs are plain, singable by any travelling musician, but if you listen well, they can be pretty deep while being really peaceful… And I just realized one of the reasons why I like the songs is because they sound like something that Phoebe Buffay from Friends would sing (har har har)… My favorite song is “Anyone Else But You” which seems to be the theme song of this movie. It’s like a love song for my favorite type of life partner… It says:
The monkey on you’re back is the latest trend
I don’t see what anyone can see, in anyone else
But you
Simple… the last line is kind of grammatically confusing, but I think it means I don’t really get why other people like other people, but I can definitely see something in you that makes me love you, and only I can see it…
I really don’t like hearing about young kids getting pregnant, especially when they are still living under their parent’s roof, barely finished with school and not earning enough money just for themselves… But this movie was like a ray of sunshine to my OB GYN nightmares… If kids can have the same kind of thinking as Juno that’d be great… And if parents can be as loving to their daughters, maybe not a lot of daughters would end up as messed up as those that I see in the OB ward every day… And if guys can be as caring and as true as Paulie was, then maybe we can keep believing that a love that lasts still exists in this world.
All babies want to get borned! All babies want to get borned!
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