Juno

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

What an utterly depressing film. I cried the whole way through.

I did finish the second sleeve of Benedict's jumper, though; nearly finished now.

Also, it's *good*, just miserable and hopeless.

Comments

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Gosh.

I really liked it and found it uplifting and hopeful almost all the way through. People being hopeful; people being sensible about difficult situations; nobody being blamed or demonised; difficult options presented fairly and acknowledged fairly, and everyone pretty much getting what they wanted in the end with no magical solutions. I don't think there Jennifer Garner character would be a particularly good mother, but as a step-parent, I really like to see positive portrayals of understanding the levels at which family is an active choice.

I don't mean any of that to come across as negative to or dismissive of your reaction, but I completely don't understand it and I'd like to, if you'd care to expand on it; if not that's also fine.

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

It was just the implication that it doesn't matter how prepared you are, everything can still fall apart over what should have been a minor thing to fix... she was excited, he needed more communication, but did he sit her down and tell her that? And you can just tell that in 15 years time, J will be suffering secondary infertility and will be on the other end of the whole mess, wishing she'd taken her chances when she had them.

On the other hand, it's possible that things are sufficiently different in the US that my outlook is invalid... I was reading where they don't even have support of any kind for a 12 year old pregnant girl 'because she's too young to talk about pregnancy and childbirth' in the US, but here... there's a whole host of support for education, child care and so on. I was very shocked also at the high visibility of child homelessness, something I associated with South America more than New England. So maybe where I'm coming from is just too far away.

Also, it's more than possibly that sphyg is right, and, were it not for my own infertility, the whole thing woul not have been so depressing.

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

I want to see it, but might find it depressing for (I think) similar reasons to you.