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So it’s a movie about a sixteen-year-old getting pregnant. I have to admit to Lauren that my enthusiasm for seeing it rather than, say, American Gangster was moderately feigned.
It started slowly, and not particularly well. Sex joke after pregnancy joke made it all pretty bad. I considered sleeping through it, but the kids in the back were all roaring too loudly at every mention of the word ‘vagina’ for that.
However, entirely beyond my expectations, about halfway through it suddenly became really interesting. The ‘obvious choices’ weren’t taken, and the well-trodden paths of teen movies weren’t always followed. The movie morphed from bodily-function-farcical-comedy to a very informed story of humanity, and the choices that, perhaps, a real person would make, rather than the extreme good-or-bad of a modern American movie. I suspect that, whoever you are, you will identify with one character in the movie.
So it’s recommended viewing, not necessarily in the cinema, but definitely a renter, especially if you have or are thinking of having children, a relationship, or a marriage.
I still want to see American Gangster though.
