She's Having A Baby Character Analysis

Life isn’t always what we expect it to be and often times we fantasize about the life we want to live. When we first watch She’s Having a Baby we experience a lot of hate and unknowingness of feelings about the different characters. We see these different emotions come throughout the film when they realize if Jake and Kristy are ready to get married or have children. During the movie we witness the conflict of them being able to keep up with society’s standards of marriage but also their parents standards. We also see Jake fantasize about a different life he wants to live and being caught up in his emotion of not knowing what he wants.
One of the main points and character development I took away from this movie is the development of Jake as a person. In the beginning of the movie we see him talking in the car with one of his friends not knowing if he was ready to …show more content…
As he speaks a very long list of everything Jake must provide for Kristy, a close up is done to really show the emotion that Jake is feeling and to witness his reaction. There are also several reaction shots to see the priest reaction and Kristy’s. Kristy of course is standing there with a blank stare, as Jake is confused of what is going on. We also see a reaction shot of his best friend who just finished telling him right before the ceremony that he wasn’t ready for it. This reaction shot and Jake turning his head towards him shows that Jake is thinking of maybe he was right and he isn’t ready for marriage.
As the scene goes on he proceeds to put his hand on his forehead as if he was stressed out at the moment and was wiping off sweat from being so nervous. When they do a close up of the priest’s mouth as he continues to list off things Jake will have to do, we see only his teeth and hear his stern voice. The close up of his mouth brought out more emotion to what he was saying to the