8. Juno
The effect of
the well-, and over-, wrought dialogue’s omnipresence is to create an ever-present
narrator who appears to speak through all of the characters. This makes the
characters themselves ring false, no one talks like that, a fault corrected by
terrific casting and performances. This leaves the dialogue to work its
cleverer purpose: to gloss up with pristine hipster cool what is a fairly
conservative message. Imagine making a movie about a teen mom carrying her baby
to term for adoption that didn’t have the cool soundtrack and the cooler humor?
It seems that the effort is to paint the otts right’s views with the otts left’s
brush in order to be allowed to say something more timeless than the politics
of either side, something about motherhood and maturity. Perhaps it’s a pity
that corporately-funded art has to be sterilized with confection rather than
speaking with its own voice. But all that said, the affected voice it adopts is
sweet and the result goes down easy for both sides of the aisle in the audience.
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