Feminist Analysis Of Juno

The film Juno is directed by Jason Reitman. The film is about a teenager that becomes pregnant, and decides to give her baby up for adoption. The film touches the controversy of teenage pregnancy, but that is just the surface of the movie. Through implicit and explicit meaning we are able to dive deeper into the characters emotions. Through the social class and feminist analysis we can understand the statements the directors were hoping to show through the film. The actual setting and the camera angles of the movie can show us who the characters actually are, and what they like. The movie Juno starts out with a chair that symbolizes the main character’s journey through her realization that she is a pregnant. The first chair is the chair that gets Juno into this situation, and the closing scene chair is Juno’s baby in the arms of their adoptive mother (Barsam, 15). The adoptive father that falls out of the adoption agreement is constantly adorned in band t-shirts, and this symbolizes the fact that the adoptive father, Mark, has yet to let go of his past. Mark still longs to be in a rock band, and he doesn’t know how to be a father. The adoptive mother is seen painting the baby’s room in a rock band shirt, but it is used now as a shirt of no use. The

The film touches the controversy of teenage pregnancy, but that is just the surface of the movie. Through implicit and explicit meaning the audience is able to see the symbolic connection between the objects in the movie, and the characters emotions. Through the social class and feminist analysis the audience can understand the statements the directors showed throughout the film. The actual setting and the camera angles of the movie can show the audience more about the character, and what their lives are like. The movie Juno may be seen as a film about a pregnant teenager, but through the art of film the audience learns that the film has a deeper