Seeing this movie the first thing that caught my attention was the performance of Ellen page. It was the first time I was introduced to her as an actress. The only movie Ellen Page did was
Hard Candy the year before and the other works she was involved in were all roles she landed in television in Canada.
Juno was her breakthrough performance and earned her nominations for Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award for best actress.
When I first heard about the movie the first thing I noticed from the trailer was Michael Cera who was also from
Superbad. Side note that movie was also awesome! All the hype and great things about this movie were not coming from Michael Cera but coming from Ellen page's impactive performance. Watching the movie seeing Ellen page's hilariously cynical attitude towards her pregnancy and life in general is what carried the movie. The movie introduces that a lead female character can have an impact on the movie and bring movie sales without being over sexualized, romantic, or stupid (sexuality and culture 241).
The character Juno was a short, un curvy, simple young high school girl. When you just read that last sentence you probably already prejudged it as a boring movie. But she was hilarious, strong, and original. You would think watching a movie about a young pregnant girl would be full of crying and senseless drama, and her wondering why her boyfriend doesn't love her. But that wasn't the case at all she is just a cool girl who happens to be pregnant and that she deals with it by treating it as a joke and hiding behind her sarcasm. Over the course of the movie she tries to answer her own question that she raises which is "I don't know what kind of girl I am". She also figures out that she really loves that goof ball Paulie. "goldfigure". But her unique performance as a strong female lead is what this made this sleeper hit come awake. Its a must see!
Juno: PG-13, 96 minutes, romantic comedy, 2007
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