Juno is a very ordinary girl in a very ordinary high school in America. Her family background is ordinary, her studies are ordinary, and although she is playful and beautiful in appearance, she is by no means alluring. She might have lived her life peacefully, but one day, she suddenly found out that she was pregnant. In this way, the ordinary-looking Juno doesn't seem ordinary at all. She has the name of the wife of Zeus, she is good at all kinds of punk rock music, she likes to watch old horror movies, she is a little maverick, although she is not bright and colorful, she always keeps her own cool Style, has its own unique hobbies. On top of that, she was bored, but she had sex with her best male friend.
It sounds a lot like the plot of some large-scale youth films with a lot of pain literature in China , about women, about love. 1. Bright but not kitsch colors
I'm fed up with domestic youth drama youth movies using a lot of nostalgic colors and even filters to draw the picture of youth (using filters is simply unprofessional, isn't it???). One of the features of this film is the use of a lot of bright colors to ink the scenery and characters in the film. The rich color matching, with the scenery of different seasons, vividly depicts the beauty of spring, summer, autumn and winter. Although the heroine Juno is a cool punk girl, she has a hot and warm heart. Her baggy wide denim and oversized neutral plaid shirt also fit her informal, tomboy style. Clothes are often bright red or verdant green. The lighting in a large number of shots is matched with the rich but not kitsch colors, which will make you feel that this is the color that youth should have. Everything is so vivid, bright and lively, but in bright or dark lighting, It also interprets different meanings according to Juno's state of mind.
2. Soft use of light
In the color has already said, the value and meaning of the existence of light. In Juno's daily life, the source of light should be natural light. In this way, the picture is as real as in ordinary life, and in individual scenes, some lighting can also set off the atmosphere very well.
Just like the scene where Juno and the hero danced, the soft light illuminated half of Juno's face, and the other side left a constant and tough shadow of women, while the hero looked down at her but barely showed his face in the light. . With Yourou's music, such an ambiguous atmosphere was formed. And Juno in the light is like a saint who bathes in the holy light, but she is intoxicated by it. (This paragraph is really beautiful, I can feel the ambiguity here excitedly across the screen)
3. Scene scheduling
Continuous switching shots allow the film to have multiple perspectives. Each switch represents a change in the right to speak to Juno's evaluation. First herself, then her best friend, then her boyfriend, then her family, then the adoptive couple, and bystanders outside the incident.
At the end, Juno and her boyfriend are sitting in front of the house and playing the guitar. The symmetrical composition, the gradually elongated depth shot, and the occasional running group appearing in front of them show a feeling that the years are quiet and the story is not over. At the beginning, the running groups that the boyfriend first appeared in correspond to each other. Although there are no skills in the composition of many shots, it is in line with the cognition of life, and the viewing of the movie is very realistic.
The plot and narrative structure
The film is the kind that Oscar likes very much. The story is told in a linear order. It is very exciting and clear, and there will be occasional small episodes in the narrative to give the structure of key plots and small surprises.
The film begins when Juno finds out she's pregnant. It did not explain the relationship between her and her boyfriend before she became pregnant, nor did it describe their state and psychology on the day of pregnancy. It threw out the problems to be solved by the film straight to the point, and she appeared one after another in the following episodes. her boyfriend, her psychology and her attitude towards her boyfriend that night were a bit unexpected.
Our cool girl of course declared without thinking she was going to abort the baby. Later, it was extended to the topic of Christianity's prohibition of abortion. It clearly shows the attitude of the Conservative Party and the prohibition of abortion in religion (in fact, the prohibition of abortion is indeed debatable). But our cool girl has a soft and warm heart beneath her hidden appearance. When she entered an unknown abortion clinic in the 18th line and felt the anxiety of countless women, she remembered that the child in her belly had already The fingernails grew, so I gave up the idea.
In fact, I want to say that what makes this film outstanding is not that it wants to focus on expressing a society's attitudes and views on underage teenage pregnancy and the prohibition of abortion, nor does it motivate it to make a good sex education film, but rather All the brush and ink have been given to this cool and aura of the little girl - her role in this matter and her attitude and growth towards herself.
Juno comes from an unhappy family. Her divorced mother only gives her a pot of cactus every year. Although her stepmother treats her better than her own mother, she lacks maternal love in the final analysis. So she can carelessly want to abort the child, or she can feel that the child has nothing to do with her, she is just doing a good thing to help the infertile parents have a child. But she thought that the child in her belly might have grown nails, and she saw the surprise and heartbeat of the joy of life over time, and she began to question whether her original practice of giving the child to a family was correct, and she began to worry about whether the family could Responsible for children. Pregnancy made her fat and sloppy, with inconvenience in movement, and suffered from the scorn and criticism of others. From the disgust at the beginning to the fact that she still enjoys the process of giving birth with joy.
She is actually a child who has not been properly guided, educated and expressed her emotions. The maturity she relies on is disguised by herself. She is still very immature, so she will speak ill of boys who she likes and pretend that she doesn't care, so she will ignore it. The bottom line is that Tailielie and the male host contact and cross the line to pretend that they are very fanciful and mature.
The turning point of the matter was that she discovered the childishness, selfishness, and gaffe of the male host. She began to doubt her own values, questioned her behavior, felt sorry for the hostess, recognized her inner favor for the boy she loved, understood what it was like to be in the dark, and faced up to her responsibilities to her children.
Fortunately, she has a pair of rational and calm parents who believe that she supports her, compensates her and loves her after the event, does not criticize her parents, has a close friend who is unforgiving but is devoted to her, and has a person who does not shirk her responsibility. The boyfriend who grew up with her. This is the booster that makes her grow, and the source of her strength in the end.
This film shows us a beautiful picture of youth - like Juno, who is determined and brave to make every choice of his own, an independent attitude towards life that can turn back even if he is lost, and his attitude towards himself and his The philosophy of life responsible for life.
Just like Juno's name is also the wife of Zeus, the king of the gods, an independent woman, a cool girl. Just like the hostess who adopted the child, she happily broke up with the immature husband, even if she was a little boring and neurotic, she was willing to insist on the dream of raising the child by herself. Women can have their own power to compete in their own lives and make their own choices.
The film is never meant to tell us how glorious or tragic it is to be pregnant before wed Cool, you can also make your own choices firmly, and you can get real growth and real maturity from things. Even a very cliché story of self-growth, wrapped in a warm coat like bamboo shoots after a rain, can be photographed so beautifully, showing the true picture of youth.
The ending given at the end is also very good, there is no such thing as misleading teenagers (the seriousness of the situation and the different solutions are mentioned)
Who doesn't like such a beautiful, approachable, and excellent movie? Who doesn't love a heroine who is so smart, cool, and upright?
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