For a test paper, is it a question of one line or two lines; for a sperm, is it a question of the success or failure of the mission; for a party, is it a question of freedom or conservative; for a 16-year-old For JUNO, it’s a question of life or fall.
No woman can answer this question easily, no matter how enlightened, free or fearless she is.
There are often many reasons for making a choice: whether the mentality is mature, the timing is right, whether the economy allows, whether the body is healthy, whether the child's father is a bastard, etc. But the reason why JUNO came out of the abortion clinic turned out to be: at this stage, the fetus has already grown nails.
"Chacha, chacha, chacha", her head was filled with the sound of the baby's nails scratching in her abdomen.
Undoubtedly, this is a moving film, very funny, stylish, and refreshing. It is a sunny work this year.
But I don't know why, I always think something is wrong.
Diablo Cody, the female screenwriter of "Juno", was once a hot stripper, but this time she has entered the dignified academic Oscar and won the best original script in one fell swoop. She has successfully transformed and is in full swing. To be honest, I am very happy for her, but still feel that something is wrong.
"Juno" is rated as PG-13, which means that all boys and girls over the age of 13 can watch it. In the theater, the fashionable American couples saw that the 16-year-old Juno finally found true love after giving birth to a child, and they threw away the popcorn and stood up hand in hand to applaud. I think something is wrong.
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"pro-life" or "pro-choice" (pro-choice) has always been a topic of controversy between the Democratic Party and Republican Party for many years. But the strange thing is that in recent American film works, almost all pro-life. From "Knocked Up" to "Waitress" to "Bella"
In "Knocked Up", the pregnancy caused by a drunk one-night stand finally changed the child's father from a slacker to an adult; in "Waitress," the pregnancy allowed the child to escape from the asshole husband and found it again In "Bella," the presence of the child enables the mother to integrate into a warm Latin family.
From the screenwriter's point of view, I can understand, because the child was knocked out, what else the story said. Multiple lives, at least multiple characters, although they can't speak, they are almost universal props. The major character transformation, spiritual growth, and life choices of all characters have become logical and moving because of this prop.
In the real life off-screen, Britney Spears’ 16-year-old sister Jamie, in December last year, in a magazine called "OK", announced in a high-profile manner that she was pregnant, and she had been dating since high school. So far boyfriend Casey. Note that the name of this magazine is "OK", and the subtext is that it is OK to be pregnant at 16 years old, it is OK to face it, and it is OK to give birth.
In order to buy this pregnancy statement, OK Magazine spent $1 million.
At the same time, the U.S. government has spent $1 billion on advocating the temperance of teens’ desires, but the rate of teenage pregnancy in the U.S. is still increasing. According to estimates, 750,000 teenage girls in the United States will face pregnancy this year.
Well now, besides Jamie, there is another Juno.
In fact, this is nothing, there are many choices in how to spend adolescence. But, is the United States described in Juno's film the real United States?
There is a proverb: "reel life is not real life"-"film life is not real life", I seriously agree. Behind this film’s warmth, joy, relaxation, and comedy atmosphere, there is a lot of: taking it for granted, naive, idealism, and political correctness, yes, very, very “correct”.
Because in the United States, liberals and conservatives have their own opinions on abortion and have been grudges for a long time. However, there is an interesting paradox in their attitude towards relevant realities:
On the one hand, liberals want their children to learn contraception and choose abortion, but at the same time, they are reluctant to criticize those single mothers who gave birth to their children without abortion, and must advocate for their rights; on the other hand At the same time, conservatives hope that young people will abstain from sex before marriage, while sincerely praise those teenage mothers who refused to have abortions and gave birth to their children.
So, "Juno" is very smart to cater to both sides. Juno not only demonstrated the openness to sex and freedom of life that the liberals liked; but also satisfied the desire of the conservatives that she would not "abortion". Moreover, the path of "adoption" has resolved the embarrassment of adolescents having children out of wedlock. It seems that it is not only a win-win, a double-win, but also a triple-win! ! Diablo Cody, as a former sensual player, can write such a script that leaves political parties speechless. I can only admire her for her subtle cleverness.
However, when discussing with an American friend, I hesitated to ask: If... Juno is a black girl, would everyone still be so moved and praised? The friend froze for a while and said: No.
Yes, you just drive to a black community with a bad reputation, and an unmarried girl mother like Juno, grab one on the street. But most of them will drop out of school or be expelled from school. Public opinion will generally question and criticize their casual sexual attitudes. It is estimated that no white middle-class families will be interested in adopting their children. No one would think that they are cool, stylish, cool, and worthy of emulation.
Even if she is not black, as a white girl with an average family background, she cannot be as lucky and chic as Juno. "Fairy Tale" is performed, and "freedom" is relative, but I don't know if the children in the theater who are dizzy due to the excessive secretion of adrenal hormones will think so.
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any case, Juno, who was 16 years old in 2008, was far too "cool" compared to Norma McCawley who was 21 years old in 1969.
When the female conductor of the mobile theater company in Texas found out that she was pregnant by accident, she was very sad and panicked. She has been divorced once and has a 5-year-old daughter. Now she is living in a difficult situation and has no fixed place. She really doesn't want this child. But Texas at the time was still a state that strictly prohibited abortion.
Fortunately, her plight was caught by a few feminists who were looking to advance the abortion movement from the beginning. After some conspiracy, the two sides hit it off, leading to one of the most influential cases recognized in American judicial history: Luo v. Wade case.
From Connecticut's first "anti-abortion law" in 1821 to 1969, where Norma McCawley was, this law passed by most states has been implemented for nearly a century and a half. Interestingly, from a historical point of view, many of those who actively promoted the "anti-abortion" law were feminists. Because the legislative motivation for prohibiting abortion in the United States in the early years did not originate from religion and ethics, but from the medical field, and from the dangers and physical hazards that abortion surgery itself brought to women. But in the course of historical development, in the 1960s and 1970s when the civil rights movement, anti-war, sexual liberation, and hippies prevailed, the rising stars of the feminist movement that took over chose a stand that was completely opposite to their predecessors. Women’s freedom of choice is actively planning and looking forward to a vigorous campaign to promote the legalization of abortion across the country.
So, with their help, McCowy went under the pseudonym "Jane Roe" and sued the Texas state anti-abortion law for violating the Fourteenth and Ninth Amendments of the Constitution. Because the prosecutor of Dallas County, Texas is called Wade, the case of "Row v. Wade" is known in history. (Roe v. Wade) The
whole case is very interesting and complicated. The lawyers on both sides debated fiercely when the fetus has "human rights", whether the constitution protects the human rights of the "fetus" or the "right of choice" of pregnant women; the law prohibiting abortion itself, Whether it violated women’s privacy rights, etc., appeals from the local court to the Supreme Court.
On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court confirmed by a 7 to 2 vote that: a woman’s right to decide whether to continue pregnancy is protected by the Constitution’s personal autonomy and privacy. This judgment has spread widely to 51 states in the United States, formally contributed to the legalization of early abortion in the United States, and had a profound impact on the subsequent women's rights, constitutional interpretation, and even party positions in the United States.
The status and influence of the "Row v. Wade case" in American history is undoubtedly unquestionable, but I always feel that in the following thirty years, the parties involved in this case have undergone extremely dramatic changes. From a deeper point of view, this proposition has shown the complexity and complexity of the proposition. No solution.
In the long litigation that year, McCauvey, who had the pseudonym "Luo", had no choice but to give birth to the child. The central figure in this prestigious case was given away from birth. After the judgment of the High Court, McCawley became a well-known symbol of "abortion" and "feminism", and joined some clinics to promote abortion.
However, the specific blood, dead embryos, and a large amount of life lost every day, like the waves washing the beach, invaded and cleansed her faith day by day. She gradually believed that abortion was inhumane. Later, under the influence of a Christian pastor, she completely betrayed her camp.
On August 8, 1995, McCawley was baptized in a private swimming pool, and has since formally opposed abortion. Since then, she has also established a "roe no more" ("roe no more") organization to promote anti-abortion propaganda. In 1998, she used a whole book to describe how she changed her mind from an abortion icon to a determined anti-abortion radical. The title of the book was-"Conquered by Love".
During the U.S. primary elections this year, Republican candidate Ron Paul said publicly: "The'Row v. Wade' case is completely wrong. It is not a "constitutional" issue at all. The constitution, including the constitutional amendments, does not have a single word. Supporting abortion means. The rights of those innocent and unborn children are the core of the ideal value of freedom in the United States."
And the former party "Luo" responded: I support him running for president because we have the same goal, that is- — One day the "Row v. Wade" case can be completely overturned.
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Back to "Juno", I just want to say that this entangled and ambiguous proposition is far from a 16-year-old girl who can play the guitar and hold a cigarette holder and handle it coolly. To simplify and beautify it in the form of a light-hearted comedy, it is not just playing dumb, but playing stupid.
By the way, the pregnancy test in the United States is different from that in China. It shows the effect of pregnancy, not two parallel lines, but a "cross".
This heavy cross does not come from God, but is drawn in everyone's heart.
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