Synopsis Sixteen year-old Juno MacGuff is the type of girl that beats to her own drummer‚ and doesn ’t really care what others may think of her. She learns that she ’s pregnant from a one-time sexual encounter with her best friend‚ Paulie Bleeker. Juno and Paulie like each other‚ but don ’t consider themselves to be exclusive boyfriend/girlfriend let alone be ready to be a family complete with child. Although she would rather not be pregnant‚ Juno is fairly realistic about her situation. Paulie
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The 2007 comedy-drama film Juno‚ directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody‚ is a great film to use in analyzing the commonly tumultuous and chaotic adolescent years. While my biggest struggles during primary school came prior to age thirteen‚ I have often wondered at what it must have been like to be a teenaged high school student dealing with the “condition” of teen pregnancy on top of all the pressures teens typically face. Specifically‚ I remember a girl in my class who became pregnant
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Juno The film I have chosen for this paper is the drama-comedy Juno directed by Jason Reirman. It is a domestic comedy with anarchic elements. In the film‚ you get to follow Juno MacGuff‚ a 16-years-old girl‚ as her life changes when she finds out that she is pregnant. It’s a realistic film told from Juno’s point of view. The film touches several controversial‚ populist themes‚ but manages to do so without being cliché. The most obvious being the teen pregnancy‚ but other topics such as the curiosity
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Juno is a 16 year old white female currently in high school. She is the oldest of two children in her family headed by her father and step-mother‚ who she does not see very often. This is problematic because the family is “one of the core relationships in their lives and dissolves the family structure they depend on for secure development” (Ashford & LeCroy‚ 2008‚ p. 403). At the beginning of the movie‚ she seems content with her station in life and in school. She looks to a boy named Paulie Bleeker
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In the visual text‚ Juno directed by Jason Reitman‚ the motifs develop one or more ideas which include‚ the purpose - age does not mean maturity and love. The motifs appear throughout the visual text which may seem random but are important along the course of the visual text. In the visual text Juno‚ the main character 16 year old Juno decides to experience sex with her best friend Paulie Bleeker‚ who wasn’t entirely eager to do so. Despite their closeness they are not together for the majority
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The film Juno‚ directed by Jason Reitman released September 1‚ 2007 is a very interesting indie style film that broke into mainstream viewing. The main actors in the film are Ellen Page‚ Michael Cera‚ Jennifer Garner‚ Jason Bateman. The movie follows the story of Juno (Ellen Page)‚ a teen that unexpectedly gets pregnant from one event in a chair with her best friend‚ Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera). You follow Juno through her journey towards motherhood by 4 seasons and as the trees change colour so
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Juno Introduction: This review is about a movie called Juno. It was written by Diablo Cody and Directed by Jason Reitman. Juno was released in September 2007‚ it is 96 minutes long and the language of the movie is English. It has a broad audience‚ but the audience has to be open minded. Most people from 12 to 50 would probably find it entertaining. Description: When Juno MacGuff finds herself pregnant with her best friend‚ Paulie Bleeker’s baby‚ she has some tough choices to make. She decides
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THE MOVİE “JUNO” Sixteen year-old Juno MacGuff is the type of girl that beats to her own drummer‚ and doesn’t really care what others may think of her. She learns that she’s pregnant from a one-time sexual encounter with her best friend‚ Paulie Bleeker. Juno and Paulie like each other‚ but don’t consider themselves to be exclusive boyfriend/girlfriend let alone be ready to be a family complete with child. Although she would rather not be pregnant‚ Juno is fairly pragmatic about her situation. Paulie
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movie Juno is not only an excellent representation of film and the creative process coming together to create characters and a story that draws in the audience and allows them to invest themselves in the lives of the characters‚ but it is also an excellent example of the developmental process. This is because the movie reflects not only the development of its protagonist Juno MacGuff and her emotional growth and development‚ but also her physical development throughout her pregnancy. Juno begins
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character or characters in the text. An interesting surprise in the text “Juno” directed by Jason Rietman was Juno’s decision to put her baby up for adoption. This surprise helped me learn about Juno’s maturity‚ also the surprise helped me learn that Juno’s parents‚ Brenda and Mack‚ respected Juno’s decisions and supported her in any way they could‚ and Juno’s best friend Lea also supported Juno. Another interesting surprise was when Juno pretend hung herself with liquorice. “It started with a chair”. The
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