Juno Gender Roles

The film Juno, a comedy recorded in 2007, by director Jason Reitman, is about a high school student, Juno MacGuff, who is 16 years old and discovers that she is pregnant by her friend Paulie Bleeker. The movie is told over those nine months of her pregnancy, her options and decisions about keeping the baby or having an abortion, and how her plans unravel as she talks and interacts to all the people in her life, including later the couple she chooses to give the child to. This Oscar winning screenplay displayed teenage pregnancy in a more positive way, as much as they could, which had never been attempted by the movie or TV show industries. Juno created a change not only on the view of teenage pregnancy but also a new idea about gender roles and issues. This movie is also one of the first ones to deal with a teenage pregnancy this efficiently when it comes to a decision and telling her parents, since she immediately took the mature route instead of thinking her life was over and was …show more content…
Only one character in the entire screenplay that is not white. Besides, dealing with race could easily become a political issue. However, the scene where Juno goes to have the abortion, Su-Chin, an Asian student from her high school, is outside protesting and tries to convince Juno not to abort. Nevertheless, it puts in perspective what it would be like if the same story of Juno were portrayed with an African American or Hispanic teenage student. I believe the film would not have been received as positively as it did if the main girl was one of those two races, since society tends to view their teenage pregnancies as something expected, especially if from lower class, like Juno. Society assumes they come from an uneducated household where there is no support system, emotionally as well as