JUNO

In this film, Juno is an average high school girl, but what makes us love her is that she is honest about who she is. She is not part of the popular crowd, nor does she want to be. Yet when her dad says to her that he thought she was the kind of girl who knew when to say when, she was open and admitted that she does not know what kind of girl she is. She is on a journey to learn who she is but she does not lose sight of what she is, an individual. She likes the kind of music that she likes not because other people like it too, but because she knows that she likes it. I think that there were pressures in her life, like her sexually active best friend, that might have influenced her decision to sleep with Bleeker. Also, by listening to her best friend, she went to an abortion clinic. As she was getting closer to the building, a schoolmate of hers was holding a sign in protest against abortions. As Juno walked by, the schoolmate yelled to her that the baby has fingernails. Juno thought about that statement, she reasoned with it, and ran out of that clinic. She thought for herself and let go of what she was told to do. The courage and bravery it would take for a young high school girl to walk through the hallways of her high school with a full pregnant belly, to tell her parents the truth about what she had gotten herself into, and to go searching for adoptive parents whom she thought would be the perfect match for her little baby, is outstanding. I think that is why we love Juno so much. She admits to who she is and even that she does not always know who she is. I think it was really great for her dad to tell her that she has to meet someone who is going to love her just the way that she is now. It is a good encouragement to us to be who we are, the unique individuals that we are, and not change ourselves to make people like us better. Even though Juno was not sure of who she was all the time, she was confident in knowing that she was herself and nobody else.