Two for Four, Part 2
Then there’s Juno. I liked Juno. Alot. I wouldn’t say I loved it, the movie is a bit to precious and hipster for me, but I really enjoyed it, and a big part of that is the final scene in the film. Like The Graduate, I don’t think the movie’s meaning comes across to me. I understand it, but it just doesn’t grab me. That last scene does though, and it’s an incredible payoff for the tumultuous events Juno is put through in the film. Paulie and Juno, sitting on the step, playing guitar and singing, their entire lives ahead of them, knowing that, for the moment at last, they made the right decision.
The first time I watched Juno that sequence immediately brought to mind The Graduate, because it’s the complete antithesis for the ending of that film . Both end on simultaneous upbeat and depressing notes, because you know that neither relationship will likely last, and all four have gone through some really trying things to make it to that point, but with Juno you get hope for the future, where as in The Graduate all you can do is fear what the future will bring them.
So, there, two more of my favorite movie moment, yet again featuring music…I swear the next one won’t have anything to do with music!
Oh, and thanks to Paula for reminding me how very awesome that last bit of Juno was.
