Juno

A very interesting review of what would appear to be, at long last, a serious [can a comedy be serious?] film about a teenager, an unwanted pregnancy, and abortion.

The movie Juno, released in theaters across the United States last month, is willing to confront the hard facts of teen pregnancy. And although the producers aren’t trying to don the armor of culture warriors, they don’t flinch about showing the reality of abortion, adoption, and broken families either. The result is moving but hardly sentimental—it’s a rough-and-tumble film, with plenty of high school awkwardness, candid humor, adolescent pain, and adult strength. [more]

Thanks to Mark Olson for the reference.

Commenting on Juno, Bella and several other recent films, Insight Scoop notes a change in attitude toward abortion:

A young friend (24 years old) recently pointed out how different, in his experience, are the attitudes of Baby Boomers and GenXers/GenYers toward pregnancy and childbirth. The former tend (again, speaking generally) to have a pragmatic, even utilitarian, approach to conception and children, as though they are just one small part of a life that is usually quite focused on work, career, and social status. The latter tend to see conception and birth in a more integrated way, as a vital part of a way of life, as opposed to being an interruption or side project to be endured as best one can. This does, I think, have a ring of truth to it. It is one thing to support and even demand legalized abortion when you yourself were born in a time when such a thing was unheard of; it's quite another to consider...that you could have been just another nameless statistic.

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