So, I just watched Juno- what is all the controversy over it?

jm1970

Ummm...it was stupid and it made it look like giving up your baby is no big deal...just give it away.

Also, while it is every woman's choice, the girl had family support, they had enough money to help her...they played right into the fact that people who have a lot of money are better parents than people who don't.

And if the argument was to give the baby a two parent family, she didn't. The baby would have at least had grandpa (and Dad) as they stayed together.

Then they show her and her boyfriend....la la la just gave our baby away, couldn't be happier, la la la .....

STUPID!

Isabel A

I don't have a problem with it as a work of fiction. But that's all it is, a work of fiction written by someone who is neither an adoptive parent, an adoptee or someone who has relinquished a child.

I find it disconcerting when people try to use it as a real life example.
Taking a work of fiction and using it as a mouthpiece is the definitive form of propaganda and that is a problem for everybody.

I've even seen questions here from young women who want to arrange an adoption "Juno style", ick!

La Vie Boheme

Some people think it glorified teen pregnancy and gave a message that everyone will live happily ever after afterwards

IDK!!

I didn't like the deceptive marketing.

KTea

Yes, in the movie they made everything very unrealistic. A biological mother giving up a child was made like it was a piece of cake, when it is not. The parents of Juno were loving and accepting of her, etc. when in real life the opposite happens a lot.

Josephine

They made everything look a lot easier than it really is. People are afraid teens will think "Oh! getting pregnant really isn't THAT bad, I'll just handle it like Juno did!".

Morgaine

I think Juno was a cute movie for a work of fiction, however it didn't really show how scary an unplanned pregnancy is to a teenager. The abortion clinic situation was unrealistic and crazy, especially since I know that in Minnesota that underage girls need parents permission to have an abortion (having been, at one point, a 17 year old girl in Minnesota trying to have an abortion without telling my parents). I don't know how I would have liked them to talk about abortion, but I didn't like they way they handled it.

The last answer on the question I am listing in my source scares me.

Cam

I actually liked the movie BUT concluded that it wasn't realistic and gravely lacked emotion.

Independ"ant"

Of course you wouldn't find anything wrong with it especially when you compare it to your personal experience with adoption.

Just a Mom

I actually really liked the movie. I would have liked to see an open adoption, but I am sure that there are people who don't want it.

I don't think it made teens want to get pregnant. Or atleast I hope not.

Edit: How can I get thumbs down for stating my opinion? You people are unreal sometimes.

littleJaina

I just saw it a few weeks ago. I actually enjoyed the movie. I thought it was entertaining, but obviously not truthful. There were only a few things I found disturbingly odd...

First - they acted like her being a pregnant teen made her a freak. Uh, hello, it seems like you can't go anywhere these days without running into one! I don't think it's the way it should be, but it certainly is the way things are. I thought that part was a bit unrealistic.

The second thing I really can't judge from personal experience but.. Didn't it seem a little strange to you that she treated the baby like a basketball she was just carrying around for a while? I know that some women never consider a baby they are placing as their own true child, but... well.. it is SOMEONEs child. To me it seemed like it was hardly more than an annoying tumor to her. That bugged me a bit.

The last thing that bothered me was how little involved they had the biological father. Sure, it probably is that way alot of the time, but did they have to make it that way on a movie they showed to millions? Couldn't they have made him care at least a LITTLE bit?

Jennifer L

I didn't see the big deal either.

There were a few things I would have liked to see handled differently: open adoption, minimal interaction from the baby's father. It was simplistic in presenting adoption overall, but the entire complexity of adoption is too broad and diverse to address it all in a single book/movie.

I don't think it glamorized teen pregnancy. I liked in particular how Juno's family were supportive, but still maintained the gravity of the situation. It was a refreshing change from the angry Bible-thumping condemning parents often depicted in these movies.

So, a bit simplistic, yes. Worst movie ever: no.

monkeykitty83

I think it depends on how you receive the movie. If someone was expecting a serious drama or documentary on adoption, I think they would be very disappointed, because it isn't. It's a comedy, and it's not going for deep emotional impact.

I enjoyed Juno for what it was-- a story about a basically flippant teenager learning some lessons about life-- but I didn't take it too seriously or look for deeper adoption truths. The movie just doesn't bear that level of scrutiny.

Neil

I didn't hear any controversy, really. But I know that some of the same folks who periodically call for boycotts of McDonalds, Disney, and Ford for daring to advertise in a gay magazine, etc., raged that it would encourage teen pregnancy. (I saw the movie, and some of them said they didn't.. So I think my opinion to the contrary actually has some basis.)

I thought it was a good movie. Not as good as I had hoped, but good. And I don't think it made anything look easy.

bRoWnEyEz

I'm not sure there was any controversy over it- really?
I don't remember ever hearing that it was controversial, the only thing i ever heard was that it was a great movie!

Holly R

The only controversy I ever heard was that it encourages teen pregnancy...i didn't see that at all in the movie. i thought it was great!

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