Looking Out To Sea

(You gotta shout the headline like Bruno! Bruno! to make it sound right.)

On Friday night we saw Juno, which was given the kind of advertising which would normally put me right off. Yet again. They did this with I Am Legend. Is there some conspiracy to make films appear even more rubbish than they actually are? I suppose it isn’t over-hyping them, at least.

Thankfully this one’s had a good word-of-mouth reputation so I was actually quite keen to see it. It’s great! Ellen Page is fantastic as the main character and the dialogue was something else. Occasionally you listen to some on-screen dialogue and it just seems so completely different and fresh and real. Tarantino can do it, as can Joss Whedon. And if this film is anything to go by, Diablo Cody has it too. It’s also got some great music. There’s a brilliant cover of Sea of Love playing over the birth scene.

It’s also been interesting to see the political reactions to this, which have been highly contradictory. The abortion lobby seem to view it as anti-abortion and the anti-abortion lobby are too freaked out by the horror of strong female characters and intelligent individuals making their own decisions to notice. Everyone is projecting their own imagined fears onto the movie… which is pretty much the same as people do in real life.

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