Interpersonal Concepts In The Film 'Juno'

The movie, Juno, displays many interpersonal relationships throughout each of the characters. Within these relationships, significant interpersonal concepts are vividly shown, affecting the relationships between characters. Cognitive complexity, presenting self, nonverbal communication, terminating, and questioning is five interpersonal concepts that really caught my attention while watching this movie. The movie, Juno, is a movie about a sixteen-year-old girl who gets pregnant and has to go through the process of what to do about her consequences from her actions. Juno found out she was pregnant and now has to decide whether or not to have the baby or abort the baby. After deciding that she wanted to have the baby she decided that she was going to give the baby to a family who cannot have children but want a child. Juno meets with the family multiple times and decides that she will give this family the baby directly after her delivery. Juno has the baby, the adopted mother, Vanessa, takes him home and Juno goes on about her life, continuing to be with Bleaker. Getting pregnant did not make Juno necessarily change as a person, she did not go into depression because she was sad …show more content…
Cognitive complexity is the ability to construct a variety of frameworks for viewing an issue (page 25), which Juno does when deciding what to do about her pregnancy. Considering that she is pregnant, Juno finds each way she can handle her issue of being pregnant. Juno first sees her pregnancy as something she does not want to take on and says she just wants to “nip it in the bud.” Juno suddenly views other things that she can do about her pregnancy. She realizes that she can give it up for adoption or she can keep the baby herself. Juno perfectly shows cognitive complexity because she was able to view three options about her issue that has come as a consequence of her