A movie that I saw recently, that we even discussed last term in class, was Juno. The movie makes humor of a serious issue onto itself, as well as politically: teen pregnancy. The actress Ellen Page does an amazing job portraying a tom-boy who got pregnant and decides to keep the child and give it up for adoption. While I’m sure the director and writer of Juno didn’t intend to show bias with their movie, they definitely showed something.
Juno being the tom-boy she was, she tired to play off the fact she was pregnant, wasn’t a big deal. While she may have succeeded for some time, there was a point in the film where she showed how vulnerable and scared she really was. As she was driving home from meeting with her child’s adoptive parents (Where the potential father admitted feelings for her) she pulled over her car and broke down crying. I feel at this point she realized the weight of her situation. She was going to have a child at 16 years old, the father of her child wasn’t really anything more than a goofy, immature relationship, the parents she thought her child would have are breaking up, and she was alone.
At that point in the movie, Juno was just like a million other people in the world, she felt lost and alone. Socially, this film, depicted a much larger audience than, I believe, it intended to.
While the films Scream and Saw do not have a direct connection to Juno, they share a connection in that other huge issues are presented without intention. Scream discussed the maternal abandonment, while Juno discusses teen pregnancy; but, they both address (within a deeper commentary or not) the hardships of both issues and how they ultimately make the victim feel alone.
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