Juno, starring Halifax’s Ellen Page, is a critically acclaimed comedy about a wise cracking teenager, dealing with an unexpected pregnancy. As 2007′s Indie hit, it is alternative mainstream and white people love it when low budget movies do well, even though the $7 million budget is enough to feed thousands of villages in East Africa for a year. White people, especially ones over 30, also love movies that take them back to a time when there was zero hip hop influence in white high schools. So although the character of Juno and her high school are very unrealistic, older people identify with her and wish that their unappreciative children would be more like her.
On another note, the film takes place in a fictional suburban town in Minnesota, but imagine the same storyline in say West Baltimore or Socorro, TX. My guess is that there would be less qurkiness, less acoustic guitar and zero references to Dario Argento. Teen pregnancy is not as big a problem in the suburban midwest as it is in urban centers or border towns, therefore it is acceptable to not only green light a movie shedding light on teen pregnancy but it is okay to laugh at the situation and add a killer indie soundtrack.
It also doesn’t hurt that the screenplay was written by somebody named “Diablo” and that Jason Bateman and Michael Cera are in the movie as well.
p.s I’m not a robot, I cried when Vanessa got her baby
Just as funny as Juno
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[...] 13) Juno: “Teen pregnancy is not as big a problem in the suburban midwest as it is in urban centers or border towns, therefore it is acceptable to not only green light a movie shedding light on teen pregnancy but it is okay to laugh at the situation…” —I love this one in particular because when I was 16 oddly enough I actually posted a Facebook note slamming Juno for similar reasons. [...]
Every article on this website makes me want to buy a pick up, join a confederate re-enactment team, and masturbate to college football while listening to ‘Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver’
I agree with Granola Butt. I’m bored with the ironic, apathetic, sarcasam that seems to be taking over the minds of “cool” whiteys in the past 5 years. It’s annoying!
Just putting this out there… I’m white as they come and I DESPISED Juno. One of the worst, most over-hyped pieces of hipster BS that I have ever had the misfortune of viewing. But that’s just my humble opinion.
juno was kinda gay then again maybe i thought that because i was a 14 year old kid when it came out
@Eric – Actually, it was Mark and Vanessa who lived in St. Cloud, not Juno and her family. We can infer that they live in a suburb, based on Bren’s line, asking Juno why she had to “drive an hour out to East Jesus nowhere” to deliver the sonogram picture to Mark.
In fact, many white people did not like juno because of its anti-abortion slant, and white people definitely love abortions
yeah, i love juno..mainly because i was experiencing the whole teen pregnacy thing when the movie came out..well, about that time anyways..made me very depressed about being preg at first tho..lol..good movie.
Actually, Juno takes place in St. Cloud, MN. Which is a real city that I happen to live very near to. Maybe he was saying it was a fictional St. Cloud neighborhood or something but yeah, just saying. She doesn’t live in a fictional MN suburb… not that I’m a Juno superfan or anything
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