In a last defeatist gesture, Juno is also paradoxically this story's winner. The scenes at the hospital after she gives birth are especially symbolic, when Bleeker - who uses the same trashy hamburger phone - unexpectedly wins a track race but loses his son hours later. As he lies at Juno's side, the camera focuses on her striped tube socks and his muddy sportswear.
The depiction of Juno and Bleeker's love story strips away the illusion of moral conventions, ignoring the current trend of oversexed relationships, au courant overstylized romances or vulgar immersions in lusty tales. It seemed very clear that the kissing scene between Juno and Bleeker was not only affirming their love, it set them apart from the confinements of "reel":
When Juno gives her best female friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby) the finger, she is giving the finger to us all. Diablo Cody conveys her "Diwali" ending like a poetic arc where the deteriorated innocence of two high school outcasts is romanticized in a supreme trick.
Quoting poet Robert Graves: "Love is a universal migraine / A bright stain on the vision / Blotting out reason.”
Article comments
1 - Marcia L. Neil
How to be different -- go south, young man, as if he must, and homestead a new life in the scrub-brush of the Deep South. A sort of cinder-block hero, perhaps with intent to rescue the teen mom and his/her progeny?
2 - kendra
Is Deep South quirky enough?
3 - Dave C
I think a lot of people are missing the point of Juno. It is not a dramedy, or a deep character study; it is a straight comedy. It has an emotional center like a lot of comedies but it is a comedy. Juno tells jokes and uses bizarre turns of phrases to make the audience laugh, not convey deep meaning. The movie has a happy ending because the movie is fun; it is not a dark comedy.
That said Juno is still the best picture of the year.
4 - Sarah L
The third act of the movie is too dramatized and emotional for a typical comedy. I liked the review, the characters in "Juno" had a deepness under their witty jokes surface.
5 - kendra
Thank you, Sarah L! I think "Juno" was conceived as a coming-age story, so although it's formally a comedy it contains important elements of drama, imo.
Dave C, I agree it's not a dark comedy, but I think the ending is only happy to an extent.
6 - Marcia L. Neil
It's not a comedy, although the main character knows how to joke -- the movie portrays some independent young woman being gradually taken under control in ways that are already advertised.
7 - miranduhh
this movie is amazing..
honest blog..lol.