Juno

Rating: ****

‘Juno’ starring Ellen Page, features the nine-month detour that a sixteen year old junior takes when she decides to keep her pregnancy and eventually give up the child for adoption.

I have to marvel at the tenacity of this child-woman. This girl, who lives with her parents, who hasn’t outgrown her childhood yet, has much to bear when she makes such a huge decision, and all independent of her boyfriend… who IMHO, is a wimp. There are no major emotional scenes, no big quarrels that rock the scene but a whole series of little heart-warming nuggets throughout the entire film.

It’s a film that showcases love at all levels - love between a man and a woman, love between a stepmother and her stepchild, love between a couple longing for a baby of their own, and the innocent teenage love (ok, in this case, not that innocent). It’s all together a very family film and teaches us how to make the best of circumstances, instead of dwelling on upsetting matters. It doesn’t censor us or our actions, but teaches us to cherish the miracle of life, and of loving and giving. (at this point I think I sound like a christmas commercial).

Anyway, it’s good to catch such films once in a while, before I get all jaded and hard-hearted dealing with unpleasant circumstances at work.