I didn’t realize it until I saw this Dallas Morning News article by
Chris Vognar, but the recently released Juno is the third in a trifecta
of wide-release movies about women who face an unplanned pregnancy and
choose to carry the pregnancy to term – and in the case of the adult
women, raise the baby, while the teen featured in Juno places her child
for adoption.
I thought the point Vognar made was interesting – that while no one would
call any of these "family movies" in the traditional, treacly sense,
they are all life-affirming, in all life's messy, imperfect glory. And
that's not to say they follow some pro-life political script. The
"family values" crowd would likely find all three of these movies
horrendously offensive for their irreverence.
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