Forgot to mention that we watched "Juno" from Netflix last weekend. It was well-made and, yeah, I guess it did deserve the accolades it received. The director Ivan Reitman seems to have his finger on the pulse of smart, witty, emotionally with-it storytelling. His previous offering, "Thank You For Smoking", is one of my all-time favorite movies (see my review of it on my "Big In Japan" site). I did sincerely like the characters, but my only skepticism is are they an accurate reflection of teenagers today? I graduated high school in 1989, and "The Breakfast Club" was more true to the stereotypical breakdown of the high school caste system of that era - i.e. the princesses, the geeks (me), the jocks (or, the surfers at my high school), and the losers/weirdos/space cadets (I'm convinced that Ally Sheedy was the prototype of the modern Goth/Emo chick of today). Now, in "Juno", Juno is the smart, sassy heroine "every-girl" (the dialogue in the beginning of the film was almost a little too witty for its own good - in a Dawson's Creek kind of way). However, for somebody with such an acerbic wit, she hangs out with a cheerleader of all people. And her cheerleader friend is very sincere and supportive vice superficial and snotty. Could it be? Also, Michael Cera (loved him in "Superbad") is a quiet, gentle jock who looks like he might wilt like a flower if you poked him. Guess times are a changin'. Not that that's a bad thing. We all need to be a little more worldly. Guess I was a little too traumatized by my own high school experience. Thank God that's over with!
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All of the people who hated high school are cool now and all of the popular ones are still obsessed with it and haven't gotten anywhere in life.
Exactly! Couldn't have said it better myself!
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