But real life is...not so much like that. Juno was presented as this whole quirky indie story but it endorsed the mainstream (have the baby! you owe it to the nice people who can't wait to adopt it! abortion is bad because they have FINGERNAILS!) in every way possible. That's what really disappointed me about it.
Huh, that's not at all how I took it, but that's interesting. I guess I just have family members who were adopted, so the "go to nice people" thing didn't really faze me as much as to me, that IS realistic - although definitely not always the case. But you're right that there was certainly no other option presented positively, with Juno just choosing to go for adoption for reasons not related to fingernails. Abortion shouldn't be treated as this big taboo, because a woman does have the right to choose without being stigmatized.
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Date: 2011-09-01 09:39 am (UTC)Huh, that's not at all how I took it, but that's interesting. I guess I just have family members who were adopted, so the "go to nice people" thing didn't really faze me as much as to me, that IS realistic - although definitely not always the case. But you're right that there was certainly no other option presented positively, with Juno just choosing to go for adoption for reasons not related to fingernails. Abortion shouldn't be treated as this big taboo, because a woman does have the right to choose without being stigmatized.