So by now I'm sure everyone has seen Juno, it's won a million awards and was written by an ex-stripper that doesn't use her real name.
I'm not going to talk about what happends, because even without seeing the movie people know what happends. A Teen girl gets pregnant and decides to keep it.
I'm going to talk about Juno growing up in the movie, no a birthday doesn't pass and you don't see her older more than 9mos. She ends up growing as a person besides the roundness, in the beginning she is just a kid that got pregnant. You see her grow up when she stops using the the childish-teen vocabulary and starts to think things out more.
During the duration of the movie she develops a friend in someone much older, and married. She sees nothing wrong with it because she says "pssh I can have friends that are married!" not knowing at 16 that what she was really doing was flirting. Later she gets a harsh awakening when the man says hes going to leave his wife and move to an apartment in the city. The only reason she wanted to get to know him is so would be comforted with the fact that the baby is going to a good family. At that point you see something change in her, she asks if its her fault that he was going to leave his wife. The next scene is Juno leaving a note for the wife saying if the wife is still in then so is she...
Nievity
The same goes for real life, for some people something tramatic has to happen in order for them to tell the difference between flirting and not flirting. Others just grow out of it, and in some cases at the time of your life where you would have learned the difference between when to flirt and then not to flirt, sometimes something tramatic happends and it actuallyjust leaves you in that mind state for the rest of your life without you even being aware.
However by the time you get out of high school you should have learned whatever lesson you would have needed to learn to understand whats right and whats wrong. Four years is all it takes, and in some cases it takes longer... and sometimes it just never happends. All the drama that happends in high school is everyone learning in their own way mixed with hormones going fucking crazy. It's not even just flirting its everything, you have to learn judgement, thats why by the times you're 18 years old you can get piercings and tattoos all you want, because your brain is supposed to be developed enough for you to say I do or don't want that.
I really wish some people could have actually learned that lesson and be able to tell the difference between right and wrong and what they are doing.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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