In this paper, Hadley Freeman recently wrote an insightful article, noting that Juno is not the product of an anti-abortion culture, but one which has taken abortion for granted.
It may be that like Judd Apatow's comedy Knocked Up, Juno will be criticised for neglecting to endorse abortion, or to reflect that this is the option that is the most tenable in real life. Mark is a cool composer with a guitar collection, secretly unreconciled to fatherhood inevitably he begins a dangerous flirtation with Juno, whose baby threatens to destroy the marriage it was intended to complete, and to undermine Juno's own future in ways she had not begun to imagine. This turns out to be the uptight yuppies Mark (Jason Bateman) and Vanessa (Jennifer Garner). Unable to express his deeply hurt and confused feelings, Paulie shrugs and lets Juno do what she wants, and she decides to keep the baby and find a couple for adoption. As ill fortune would have it, Juno gets pregnant the first time out, and is catapulted in a world of genuine grown-up experience to match and exceed her super-cool mannerisms. Paulie was also surrendering his virginity, or as Juno puts it, "going live". In a spirit of experiment she has had sex for the first time with Paulie (Michael Cera), with whom she was once in a band. Page plays Juno MacGuff, a hyper-articulate 16-year-old who has cultivated sarky irony to insulate her against the pain and awfulness of being a teenager. With its smart dialogue by newcomer Diablo Cody and a miraculously effective and evocative lo-fi soundtrack, the film has the ephemeral charm of a great pop song. A naked Nicole Kidman was once famously described as "pure theatrical Viagra" in this thoroughly delightful teen comedy, the fully clothed Ellen Page is pure cinematic Prozac.
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