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I believe that Juno will influence the portrayal of women of the films we’ll see in the next decade because of the intelligence and honesty that it gives to its female characters and the resonance that this movie has had with the current and upcoming movie making generation. We live in world where kids grow up too fast, men don’t grow up fast enough and women still fight the epic battle between career and family by themselves, even when they’re married. Juno examines these truths that color the modern reality and the way the some women navigate through it. Diablo Cody, the writer of Juno, has her own well-publicized past that seems to have granted her the freedom to look at womanhood and sexuality without shame, but as simply apart of life. Being unashamed about teenage sexuality allows Diablo’s characters to deal with Juno’s pregnancy in a practical, mature way. The women in this movie, all at different stages in their lives, create a picture of the different ways a woman can express herself and handle a situation...
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