Amber Comments On Movie Juno

Hello Everyone,
Happy New Year

This is a quick review I just posted on BlogCritics.com
The review is for the movie Juno from Fox Searchlight Pictures, written by Diablo Cody with stars Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner and directed by Jason Reitman.

I saw Juno yesterday on the recommendation of a friend who helps make movies at a major motion picture studio. She should be right about a good movie and she was right. The movie had the best dialogue I have heard in a long time - trendy, edgy, lyrical - reminded me of Janet Fitch's White Oleander. The cinemaphotograpy is sometimes dream like and collage infused.

The movie Juno deals with old, old subjects - the teenage pregnancy,coming-of-age, girl meets boy, girl looses boy, girl gets boy back, men who don't want to grow up, abandonment, step-mothers, barren women, being the odd one out, well ... there is just a lot going on in this film but in a very simple way - sort of middle class life in mundane boredom being rescued by chance, love, and making life-changing decisions.

Anyway, go see this movie; the acting is perfect, the story tightly woven, the drama interesting and magical. I loved it. The only thing I did not like is the ending - like it had been done for Hollywood where everybody gets what they want and everyone goes singing down the yellow, brick road, clicking their red heels and ending up back in Kansas.

Even so, I would see this movie again - gave me new insights into a world I am surrounded with everyday, "The poet never says anything new, just finds a new way to say it."

Juno, the movie is poetry in film and worth a very special look.

Review Of The Holidays

A SEASONAL SHIFT IN ATTITUDES

Dear Friends

I cannot think of a more appropriate time to shift attitudes about our emotions than the Holiday Seasons. I often see myself and others struggling during this awesome time trying to "come to terms" with their emotional selves. The emotional ghosts of Holidays past have a way of coming out at Halloween and staying around until after the New Year; sometime lagging on until Valentine's Day. That puts everyone into a "heap of feelings" for nearly four months.

Emotional roller coasters can often show their challenging rides just when there are demands to be so together, upbeat, generous, loving, and peaceful. This is especially difficult if the Season is also the anniversary of the death of a loved one, a breakup of a relationship or marriage, the loss of a job, or maybe memories of physical or sexual abuse which statistically increases dramatically during the Holidays.

Charles Dickens's immortal Christmas Carol (of which there are countless renditions) really shows graphically how deeply intense the emotional and spiritual expressions are while we are being pressured to grip the reality of past, present, and future scenarios of unresolved feelings.
Not wanting to sound myself like "Scrooge", I would say this is why the Holidays are a wonderful time for a shift in attitudes which then allows you and I to begin creating new emotions, new realities and new memories.

I do this by making a list of all the beautiful aspects about Christmas and New Years (it is also my birthday) that I love. For me, this includes the music, the color, the decorating, giving and receiving gifts, recognizing the traditions and the legends of the birth of Jesus Christ, the outpouring of charity, surprises from friends and family, plays and concerts, the Nutcracker ballet, lights everywhere, Christmas movies, Angels ( both heavenly and earthly), great food and treats, the Rose Bowl Parade ( a block from our home), winter flowers with pine tress and the smell of snow.

This time of year is just so full of sensory abundance and the opportunity to share, that I take my list and everyday of the season, I find one thing from this list that I can do and that I can enjoy. With this action, I create a new memory for my future Holidays. It is like this bank I now can draw on when the Holidays come again.

So this is my Holiday Review: My shift in attitude to go from regrets, loss, sadness and rejection to one of love, beauty, peace, joy, and hope for all this goodness to reach out and touch everyone in my world. I hope this helps and if you need someone to talk to, you can call me at 1-626-796-8605. I wish you all blessings of a happy heart and a Destiny Bright for the New Year of 2008.

Much love,
Amber

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