Wednesday, February 03, 2021

Juno

Ripe for rewatching and stands up well. It was clearer to me this time how deftly it sidesteps the pro life / pro choice argument by centring Juno's own decision; also the contrast between Juno's growing maturity and the Jason Bateman character's stuckness-in-adolescence and general jerkishness, and the validation of both single parenting and blended families and the implicit mirroring of the non-mainstreamness of Juno herself and the relationship between her and Michael Cera's Bleeker. Also a reminder of how good an actor Page was from the beginning, both interesting and believable.