JUNO

I was lamenting the other day how it now takes so much more to move an audience, to touch people. The more we are exposed to movies/films/books/art, the higher the standard we set, the greater the expectation, the more it takes to evoke some sort of emotion. Not that we become desensitized, there just is a greater hunger for something more, it is like eating durians, once you've tried D24 durians, the sweetness will leave you hungering for XO durians, and you'll no longer settle for those fifty cents ones.

And just when I felt that I was no longer able to find my XO durian in movies, I watched this show today which left me gushing, laughing, crying and gushing. Juno is not just a comedy about teenage preganancy, it is about love, about life, about living, about familial relations, about responsibilities, about choices, about coping and dealing. I hate speaking about it in such airy-fairy ambiguous concepts, everyone should go catch it. Natural yet witty, funny yet endearing, I cannot remember the last movie I watched that I felt so much for.

I am not bothering to be more objective or critical because this show is PURE ABSOLUTE BRILLIANCE. I love the part when she says, "I need to know it is possible that two people can stay happy together forever."