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sixteen-year-old Juno is a cool girl. She watched bloody horror films and listened to the rock of the last century. She rode a bicycle with a guitar on her back, quarreled with her stepmother, turned and poured Coke directly into an antique vase. Even when the "underage pregnancy" came down in the eyes of ordinary people, she faced and dealt with it coolly. She gave up abortion because of her fingernail, and she wore big sunglasses and her girlfriend to select the adoptive parents of the child, and gave the lawyer's name. The reading was prolonged and exaggerated, as if it could last until the last moment. In fact, it’s not much difference. The October pregnancy flashed by in the day-to-day morning jog. The whole family mobilized to welcome the arrival of the little life, and Juno turned back to the flat belly of himself, and continued to ride with the guitar on his back. The bicycle grows on the sunny road. The film is cheerful and warm, moving methodically in the brisk and unreal humming music, bright and colorful like a watercolor comic book.
When realistic topics that are too heavy and complicated are presented too easily and simply on the screen, everything becomes more and more at a loss. Many people see it as a sweet, greasy and distorted Great American utopia, but this is really wrong to blame it. "Juneo" is like Juno, full of youthful deep disdain and stupid happiness. As for those heavy and painful, the director and her conspired to hide behind her back without talking to others. In the movie, Allen Page held a big bucket of juice soda, dragged his trouser legs and walked into the convenience store crookedly, playing drums nervously, but he didn't care, joking one after another, slamming the pregnancy test stick to go home at the same pace. On the night of the pregnancy confirmation, even the audience could guess how much anxiety and fear she had in her heart, but she pulled the tiger carpet from the neighbor’s house, set up the living room on the lawn in front of the boy’s house, held a pipe, and delivered the notice noncommittal. . Compared with the boy's effort to conceal his surprised expression, Juno's understatement with raised eyebrows is cool enough, and I am afraid there must be a bold element in it.
The teenagers in the film are full of dazzling jokes and slang, bold and arrogant but also dodging, trying to find the most satisfactory ending. Different from making a strong face and pretending to be relaxed, this is more like an extension of the inertia of daily life. Brick was dumb and shy from start to finish, but he looked through the yearbook again and again at home, staring at the messages on it in a daze, holding the bunch of floral underwear in his hand, full of waves and expressionless face. Juno's father and stepmother buried their heads in their hands and sighed, but a thousand words were not as good as immediate action, buried disappointment and anxiety in their stomachs, and accompanied the children on the journey with warmth and tolerance. He ran into Juno, who had an accident in the adopted family and marriage, and finally stopped the minivan by the side of the road on the way home, crying almost silently, and then wiped away the tears and nose with his sleeves, and went home neatly. She casually said to her father: It's nothing, but I have lost faith in human nature. At that moment, the collapse of all the pillars of the building turned into the sound of dust flying slowly. In my father’s answer, the sun shines out of your ass is crude but profound, and the vicissitudes of life that I have walked through are only expressed in this way. The criticism that may be incurred in real life, "Juneo" is not that it does not say: a shot of a red dress walking through a crowded corridor, the small figure going against the current is so thin that it makes people sad. Juno didn't say anything about the acrimonious contradictions and pains, but they were all covered by "cool": When she called Women Now while shaking the Hamburger phone, she was as calm as a bowl of sugar water, like a scorpion in her throat, but she wanted to sing loudly.
Before meeting Mark, Juno had to put on a short skirt over the loose jeans, put on lipstick fiercely, and entered the adult world coolly, but did not guard against the parting ways after the "happy and warm". She finally returned to Brick and gave him the orange candy overflowing from the mailbox, colorful striped socks and student running shoes close together, as quiet and simple as before. Only they can understand the stubbornness and bitterness behind each other's proud faces, and can embrace each other at the closest distance. This kind of youth is itself a kind of power to overcome the catastrophe. The director keenly captured the pretentiousness and sincerity of the Young Adults. The inconvenience was so obvious that he had to express the entanglement and worry expressed by haha, and implemented it in the whole movie; this is not a pretense of being stupid but humorous and relaxed. strong. Apart from this implicitness, nothing can describe it better.
"Juneo" and Juno walked through this episode in the coolest way, and continued to stick their pockets up and head forward, regardless of reckless progress, knowing that a lot has happened, but it seemed that nothing happened. At the end of the movie, the sun shines on the small road as always, the shiny leaves fall on both sides, the morning running team traverses the golden picture like time, in the green and pure singing of Juno and Brick, there is something worthy of desire. Hope of life.
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