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To see “Juno” article in Bahasa Indonesia, head down here.

This must has been my second time watching Juno after I bought the DVD last month. And quite frankly I ain’t really shocked that “Juno” can still tremble my heart with it’s smart and original theme.

It’s not too hard to figure out what’s happening there, tough there’s no subtitle in the DVD set I bought. It sucks, but i enjoyed it so much. I can feel that the dialog is somewhat different, and it has some kind of hidden strength inside most of the lines. Credit goes to Mrs. Diablo Cody who’s apparently been just the perfect winner for last Oscar (Original Screenplay).

On this second time, I’ve found so many things I missed on my first one. I understand things a lot better and that makes me love this movie even much. Well that’s quite embarrassing. You know I don’t talk English?

Things I’ve just figured out are:
- Both Leah and Brenda suggested an abortion for Juno.
- Juno called for abortion by a HAMBURGER PHONE. The abortion clinic is called “Women Now”, and the punk receptionist offered Juno a pie-flavoured condom. Juno finally made up her mind after she’s terrorized by fingernails.
- Juno DID threw up on Brenda’s vase, and she poured some kind of softdrinks there after she had an argument with her step-mum.
- Bleeker and Brenda are suspicious about Juno and Mark’s relationship, that it’s quite abnormal…
- Juno has been very irresponsible toward Mark and Vanessa. She poisoned Mark’s mind, so that the couple get divorced. But of course Juno didn’t mean it.
- Vanessa is crazy about having a baby. I always thought she’s a rich perfectionist drama queen, but I do see a mother’s soul there
- Juno is wicked smart and pretty grown up, but yet her immaturity keeps driving her. Even Bleeker says that.
- The story started and ended with a chair.
- A LOT more…

The reason why I decided to write another review about Juno in English is that there’re only few people in Indonesia who’s watched the movie, due to the inability of the Whatever-Movie Department to show “Juno” on cinemas here. Hell, it’s a great movie. I don’t know, but it must has somethin to do with the culture in Indonesia.

That kind of theme that “Juno” has, is somewhat too bold for the people here. Freesex, abortion, teenage pregnancy… I know it’s a bit too harsh. And we see it through Juno MacGuff’s perspective, it’s just worse :b (remember what’s on her mind when she saw a group of track runner boys passing by?)

But I do learn much from the movie. It gave us a brand new solution for relating problem, which, we Indonesian admit it or not, has been a terrifying problem in our young generation. My high school teacher once told me that the number of abortion is increasing each year, and most of them occurred among teenagers. Them cold-blooded murderers! They don’t even realize it!

I just hope that it will be shown on cinemas, I’ll definitely and willingly watch it again with my friends to accompany. Bring the whole class if necessary :b I’m not pretty sure about watching it with my parents, it surely won’t be easy for them. What i want to note is: “Juno” doesn’t legalize the freesex among high school teenager in Indonesia, but it teaches us how to be responsible for what we’ve done. At least we agree about something here: high school pregnancy is what we have to be concerned about, no matter in what country we accustomed in.

P.S. I’m not too good at English, so there might be a lot of grammatical errors up there. CMIIW