If you haven’t seen yet this movie, I fully recommend it.
Why I like it?
A) Great script.
An everyday base story: the unwanted/unexpected pregnancy of a teenager.
Diablo Cody does great writing a script without complications as the complications resides where they must be: in what happens to the characters.
It has great dialogues, real, with a perfect timing to place the right words in the right moments.
The theme is sensitive (are you pro-choice, against?). Cody deals that without falling anytime in the usual (so groped) formulas or tricks to avoid problems; she just shows the facts in a beautiful written manner (are you pro-choice, against? Good for you, no matter your choice.)
And what I love more: neither a happy ending nor a sad one… just ends, real; go to your home after watching a good story that has touched you, that’s it.
B) Great performances.
This part must be praised to the director and actors, but, I think, without a great script as Cody’s those would have never been able to shine like they do.
C) Great marketing.
I think me, as many, thought watching the trailer that “Juno” was a teenage comedy, an “intelligent” one. Far from that, it has comedy, yes, but is not a comedy, it's much more... and it is intelligent.
To market the movie as a comedy was a great move from the distributors. Otherwise, marketing it as a teenage drama with romantic and comedy touches would have been the subject of a lot of unwanted previous debate.
Just watch it. It’s simply a GREAT movie.
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