Jenny, Juno
This is a Korean romantic comedy movie that deals with teen pregnancy. Despite the rather serious subject matter, the movie actually manages to keep a balance, primarily romantic, which initially slaps it with like 18+ rating, despite its otherwise innocent nature, with the argument that the film trivializes teen pregnancy and makes it seem rather easy. Eventually, it ended up like a 15+ rating for viewers in this rate to learn.
The story opens with Jenny, a high-achieving middle student, discovering the she’s knocked up and quickly informing Juno, her middle-school boyfriend. From there it’s a matter of keeping the pregnancy thing secret from their parents and further building their relationship as well.
There is something that immediately interest and impressed be about this movie, which is how it was able to keep dramatic urgency or the flow going, despite the fact that the conflict remains rather light throughout the first half of the movie. Instead, we see the couple continuing their very sweet relationship and working to both help Jenny to be a healthy mother and Juno, be a responsible father. The trick to retaining drama, it turns out, is the unspoken threat of parental action should the parents find out about the baby. I also liked how it retained a light-hearted cheerfulness throughout the movie. When things are supposed to get serious, they do, but unfortunately, the drama is more than a little lame, because of the movie’s continuing push to keep its very optimistic outlook intact. Ultimately, though, the end problem of the story lies in that we don’t actually get to see any development in either Jenny or Juno or the people around them (and it should be the parents that we see the most development in as Jenny and Juno both seem like a pair of “magical” characters, who affect those around them). Also, the movie really is rather unrealistic